radiation monitoring station

so sparkfun.com has this geiger counter device i've been eyeing for a year or two. (actually, i think this is an updated version of the one i was lusting over.) and now that we've apparently had an explosion at Fukushima 1, i believe we'll see an increase in environmental radiation. fwiw, someone posted a video of the explosion, if you haven't seen it already.

my college friend wilbur related to me that during the chernobyl meltdown in the 80's, his high school science teacher tracked the rise and decay of environmental radiation. that always seemed like a fun project to me. sort of like a weather station, but in touch with current events.

anyway, so i'm going to order one of these things tomorrow night. if we can get 10 people in the bay area, we could even do a group buy (ping me on twitter at @OhMeadhbh.) but i think tomorrow i'll be setting up a website to track decay events and map them on a google map.

cheers!