I love it! For me the big benefit here is that when I'm communicating code snippets that are often "format sensitive" through channels such as IRC, email or pr

I love it! For me the big benefit here is that when I'm communicating code snippets that are often "format sensitive" through channels such as IRC, email or project management tools (like basecamp) I will almost always use a paste service in order to ensure that no crap creeps in throughout the process. I most frequently either use sprunge.us or pastie.org and grab the "raw" URL before pasting it in. This does, however, create an external dependency, and it has happened before that pastie.org was down and a bunch of tasks I had meticulously created couldn't be read by the person who was supposed to be doing them (it didn't last long but it was annoying). Sprunge.us is actually open source so you can grab and host your own, but that takes a little time and effort and I've never ended up bothering ... THIS, on the other hand, provides a handy way for me to create these little "pastes" and share them with my team, secure in the knowledge that if things bum out I can, at a pinch, get an alternative service live to read the formatted data in. Of course, this doesn't apply if the URL has been shortened ;) Speaking of which, you could stick a URL shortener in pretty easily based on the one I did for CueYouTube[1]. I used this library http://www.myjqueryplugins.com/jquery-plugin/jly1 http://www.myjqueryplugins.com/jquery-plugin/jly1 which has an API that works entirely on the client side. Kudos! [1]http://www.cueyoutube.com http://www.cueyoutube.com