Someone previously asked how to connect simplewallet to a remote node here:
How do I connect monero-wallet-cli to a remote node?
However, is there any list of remote nodes available and their current status?
Someone previously asked how to connect simplewallet to a remote node here:
How do I connect monero-wallet-cli to a remote node?
However, is there any list of remote nodes available and their current status?
Check out https://moneroworld.com/#nodes for a current list and instructions.
In addition to https://moneroworld.com/, there is also an automatically updated list of remote nodes on https://www.xmr.be/ (i.e. nodes on this list should always work).
DISCLAIMER: I am the author of this site, I advertise it here following a suggestion on this Reddit thread. Please note that I am not the maintainer of the nodes listed on this site, I only wrote the script which look for them.