- University of Jyväskylä’s “semantic search assistant” uses WordNet to expand queries into multiple Google/Yahoo searches and ranks results with a relevance slider; participants dismissed it as a five-month Java project that merely mutates queries.  
- A counter-proposal for truly distributed search was outlined: lightweight search algorithms uploaded to each web server, executed locally on its own data, and results returned via distributed-hash-table key sorting to prevent network flooding.  
- Ted Nelson and kanzure are collaborating on a working “hypermedia system” based on Nelson’s ZigZag structure, framed as a concrete step beyond his historical “pipe-dream” projects.  
- Key DIYbio and open-science resources shared: diybio.org, openwetware.org, biohack.sf.net, and the Broad Institute’s IGV genome browser (described as a “Google-Maps-like” integrative genomics viewer).  
- BioBarCamp was highlighted as an upcoming event where kanzure might present, given its overlap with the channel’s open-science interests.  
- Participants warned of a potential “9/11-style power grab” in synthetic biology, fearing restrictive, profit-driven legislation could follow any bioterror scare.  
- Hardware concepts discussed: a one-handed chording keyboard with built-in gyroscopes doubling as a mouse, eye-tracking as a secondary input, and the observation that modern chording-keyboard development is at an “all-time low.”  
- Eric Hunting’s abandoned “M3 Game Project” was revisited—an obsessively detailed, scientifically accurate space-colonization game designed to propagate transhumanist memes and attract funding, documented in Yahoo-group posts and a Wikia wiki.  
- A cautionary note was raised that genetic or neurological “upgrades” (e.g., memory enhancement in mice) consistently produce unanticipated side-effects like heightened pain sensitivity and social deficits, illustrating systemic trade-offs in human augmentation.