reduce monkey patching of Object.
use Class.class_attribute instead of confusing meta_class meta_programming.
move these requires to where they're used.
monkeypatching NilClass makes me nervous.
reduce monkeypatching of Time.
we can't get rid of Time.get_zone! monkeypatch completely, yet.

ri_cal gem still uses it. move to an initalizer.
utf-8 templates are the default.
catch_cookie_exception has done nothing since calagator was upgraded to Rails 2.3. remove.

CGI::Session::CookieStore was replaced by ActionController::Session::CookieStore in Rails 2.3.
exception_notification plugin doesn't even exist in the project.
gmaps_on_rails doesn't exist either.
has_many_polymorphs is never required or used.
Downloader appears to be completely unused.
inline global method into the one place its used.
remove commented out code.
Merge pull request #133 from botandrose/cleanup_config_application

Clean up config/application.rb