Documentary series on protected areas by pbs: http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/

PostgreSQL 8.4.1 and PostGIS 1.4.0-5 for Mac available on http://www.kyngchaos.com niceee (via @jatorre)

Githib is zingfast after moving off virtualisation. Nothing like running close to metal but glad I’m not managing the servers.

RE: Rubyforge+Downage. You can use gem install —source http://gems.tron.name/gems.rubyforge.org/ [gemname] instead (via @standoutdavid)

listening to The Strokes. retro^2

Heroku’s HTTP caching is very nice to have in there for free.

Credit cards integrated. Boom!

WolframAlpha *really* needs an API

Good chats and food with @louislucid followed by a 3hr ride this morning. Can’t walk. Or sit.

updated infovizz about the Evolution of the size of the ozone hole http://bit.ly/2JtSOs (via @Saleiva) @datastore

Things that get made at lunchtime: http://www.working-days-left.com/

Quite pleased with http://www.working-days-left.com/. The new charting really helps draw out the underlying pattern.

and with one simple ActiveSupport::JSON.decode, the json was decoded.

aside from a few functionality quirks, the IUCN redlist site is pretty good! http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/list

First play with Tokyo Tyrant and MongoDB. This stuff is amazing. So much fun. Memcache on steroids :)