This is how I synced my forked underscore.js repo with the original repo
From your forked repo:
git checkout -b upstream/master
git remote add upstream git://github.com/documentcloud/underscore.git
git pull upstream master
git checkout master // [my master branch]
git merge upstream/master (git rebase upstream/master ????)
git push origin master
some help from http://groups.google.com/group/github/browse_thread/thread/6196487279beb2a8/181b7bc4bf7a3e16
If there is a better way, I'd like to know