Greg

"It took six hours and two minutes to sort 1PB (10 trillion 100-byte records) on 4,000 computers. [...] An interesting question came up while running experiments at such a scale: Where do you put 1PB of sorted data? We were writing it to 48,000 hard drives" - Greg via Mento

Fascinating, Fascinating. Add a Geo component and soon you have a global phenomenon. - Greg via Mento

aww! i despise seagulls... - Min Liu

"Some of the nation’s universities are trying to sell chunks of their portfolios privately as their endowments swoon with the markets." - Greg via Mento

"Business at Le Relais, a cafe in the 18th Arrondissement of Paris, declined after a smoking ban took effect." - Greg via Mento

"Robbie Cooper captures young video warriors midbattle." - Greg via Mento

You did *what* in Google Spreadsheets?! - Greg via Mento

It reads like a great detective story- - Greg via Mento

Genius! They super-imposed the video-recordings of someone else's hands onto Donald Rumsfeld standing behind podiums - Greg via Mento

I wonder what the overlap of users for these visitor numbers is -- "CNN reached 12.9 million unique users on Nov. 4, an increase of 51 percent versus the previous Tuesday, when interest in the election was already high. Meanwhile, MSNBC’s digital audience more than doubled week-to-week, hitting 12.1 million uniques on Election Day." - Greg via Mento

Suddenly, everyone has ideas for change. - Greg via Mento

"Obama Wins" edition of NYT is going for $100+ on eBay - Greg via Mento

The Election results around the globe (seen here: Athens) - Greg via Mento

"For a day, at least, newspapers were cool again." - Greg via Mento