In case you missed it #21

Thomas and Janet: first kissing humanoid robots, bizarre.
How to Build Sinatra on Rails 3: Yehuda Katz shows how to take bare pieces of Rails 3 to implement a Sinatra "clone" which you can extend to bring in more of Rails functionality by simply including the pertinent modules. Bad ass.
Ruote in 20 minutes is a great presentation by Kenneth Kalmer explaining Ruote, a Ruby workflow and BPM engine.
Obamaislitterallyhitler.com. People have way too much time in their hands.
37signals on Configuration Management with Chef.
On Rake is a good reminder that Rake is much more than tasks. It also provides excellent support for managing file dependencies as well as creation of directories.
MongoDB 1.0 released. Baby's growing up.

Awesomeful