- kanzure may secure a speaking slot at the International Space & Development Conference (ISDC 2008) despite its overlap with final exams and graduation day.  
- A debate in #dokuwiki revealed that many users treat wikis as their first exposure to revision control, prompting fenn to note that “the killer feature of a wiki is that it has RCS” even though most users have never heard of RCS outside a wiki context.  
- fenn linked to his own commentary on distributed revision control and mentioned a DokuWiki plugin called gitlink that integrates Git repositories, though he had not yet evaluated it.  
- kanzure shared his extensive personal archive of quotes and trip notes at http://heybryan.org/quotes.html and http://heybryan.org/docs/2007-10-23_trip.html, noting that he recursively mines Slashdot comment threads—including those rated −1—for valuable insights.  
- kanzure expressed admiration for the Collyer brothers, historical compulsive hoarders, as “new heroes,” highlighting a cultural reference to extreme information accumulation.  
- A brief search for the Swedish play “Samlarna” by Lotta Lotass found it available in hardcover and softcover (2005, $22/$8.50) but no torrent or English translation, illustrating the challenges of accessing niche foreign-language works.