The other night while making dinner I tried to remove the plastic wrap
on the top of this bottle of hoisin sauce and ended up removing the
entire top of the bottle, glass and all.

SPIDER!

homebrew is a package management system for OS X that allows you to install various open source packages much like macports.  Homebrew claims to simplify some aspects of the package mangement process, for example, by putting packages in /usr/local/Cellar/PKG and symlinking into /usr/local rather than relying on a custom package database.  Another advantage is that it aims to reuse any software already installed on your Mac instead of taking a self-contained approach, like macports, where you end up needing a custom version many libraries you already have (the duplication of which can sometimes come back to bite you).

Anyhow, I'm just installing it now to give it a shot.  Here's how I installed it using git archive.  I thought this two liner was worth sharing:

 sudo chown -R `whoami`:staff /usr/local
cd ~/src
 git clone git://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git
cd homebrew
git archive --format=tar HEAD|(cd /usr/local;tar xf -)

## from R's as.hexmode, how to convert a hexadecimal string to an inthex_to_int = function(h) {  xx = strsplit(tolower(h), "")[[1L]]  pos = match(xx, c(0L:9L, letters[1L:6L]))  sum((pos - 1L) * 16^(rev(seq_along(xx) - 1)))}

can be found here: http://erlang.org/doc/pdf/
And this will bring it to a directory near you:
mkdir erlang-docs && cd erlang-docs
wget -nH -nd -r -l 1 http://erlang.org/doc/pdf/

Woman: "I know more cat birthdays than human birthdays. I used to be
a cat sitter, that's why... and because I'm wacky."
Driver: "OK"
 
She was carrying a helium balloon in the shape of a cat that she
explained was for a friend's cat. For his seventh birthday. Wouldn't
a mouse have been a better choice?