notes to help group build dropdown menu

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do this first:
http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-jquery

include jquery in your layout
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

stackoverflow: how do i change options in dropdown with jquery?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1801499/how-to-change-options-of-select-with-jquery

<option> MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/option
<select> MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/select

this is also a useful forum discussion:
http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=44606