Paul Dix Explains Nothing: Breath fire over HTTP in Ruby with Typhoeus
http://www.pauldix.net/2009/05/breath-fire-over-http-in-ruby-with-typhoeus.html

Might be a good alternative to Net/HTTP for Context Hero. How hard would it be to incorporate caching?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulDixExplainsNothing

another ruby feed library. might not suck.