That was quick! I was wanting to see some sample apps with backbone, thanks for sharing.

By the way, if you have the .0.1.1 release, you can call this.handleEvents(); inside of the initialize() function on the template instead of the render() function. This prevents having to rebind the element every time you call render. This probably won't be a huge issue considering that you are only binding one event each time, but it is probably best practice anyway.