- A German avant-garde musician, Johannes Kreidler, plans to register a 70-second composition containing 70,200 samples with GEMA, forcing the German rights agency to process 70,200 individual forms in a single live performance protest against over-restrictive copyright rules.  
- The #hplusroadmap channel discussed downloading the entire English Wikipedia: the compressed XML dump is only 7.3 GB, while the HTML-with-images bundle is 14 GB and the full revision history is 147 GB.  
- Participants debated the ethics and squeamishness of live-mouse experiments, noting that tail or ear clipping is common practice in bio-research labs.  
- Zinc-finger nucleases were highlighted as a promising, non-viral gene-targeting tool that is rapidly gaining credibility in synthetic-biology circles.  
- Perfluorocarbons (e.g., Fluorinert) were explored as potential artificial blood substitutes and liquid-breathing media, with links to PubMed studies provided.  
- The OpenCog Prime roadmap was criticized for being overly ambitious and lacking modular, extendable architecture; participants called for an “apt-get for brains” rather than monolithic packages.  
- A torrent of the entire arXiv pre-print repository (~35 GB) was seeded by channel members to improve long-term archival access.  
- Event-format brainstorming produced a nested-calendar schema where sub-events can inherit or override parent properties, aimed at optimizing university course scheduling.  
- Emotiv’s EPOC brain-computer interface was dismissed as marketing hype, with comparisons to “drink the Kool-Aid” techno-utopianism.