gbulmash's Journal: Is Google Page Rank Dead?

It's been 158 days since Google updated their Toolbar Page Rank (TBPR), which are the Page Rank numbers the public can see. That's 36 days longer than their prior record longest gap, and two months longer than their "quarterly" average. Furthermore, it seems Matt Cutts has been oddly silent or dismissive on the topic for months. Is Google going to terminate public page rank numbers outright, just let them die a slow death of obsolesence, replace them with something different, or are they just running really slow for some unknown reason? What's up with Google Page Rank?