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Good morning friends, countrymen, loyal Racked Readers! If you tried to go to any one of our Curbed Network sites yesterday may have noticed we were out of commission. Well, if you were following us @RackedChicago on Twitter you'd know that the deal was that (true story) the FBI took three of our servers from a facility in Reston, Virginia. This doing has allowed our inbox to be flooded with sympathetic emails and curious tweets ALL NIGHT LONG from as far away as Germany. If you missed it and you're interested, feel free to read what the New York Times said about our little predicament - go ahead, you'll find it here. [Racked Chicago]