It seems that the common household banana is potentially heading for disaster. Apparently a fungus has been working its way through the crops of Malaysia and is threatening crops world-wide.

The new Mac OSX client for Subversion, Versions, is finally available for download, albeit a beta version that expires on July 1st. So why another client? Well, because personally I believe most of the current ones available for OSX suck - they're kludgy, ugly, and just aren't well thought out. Get thee hence and download.

Anyone who does Ruby on Rails development should familiarize themselves with mod_rails aka Phusion Passenger as the brand new v2 RC is just amazing. Just take a look at those improvements: from buffered uploads so apps don't get stuck, to a tremendous reduction in the memory usage, Rack and WSGI support (yeah, it can run Python apps!), improved startup time...

Pretty amazing discovery: a meteorite found in Australia had two base biological compounds not found in their particular forms on Earth, meaning they came from space. Holy crap, Batman, we're all aliens!

From people understanding its appeal in comparison to alternative (and aging) tools, to the continued en-masse migration of OSS projects over there (Tracks, mootools, Apple's brand spanking new sponsored sproutcore, etc), to the sheer joy of being able to easily contribute to your favorite projects, to even