- Tim Berners-Lee’s call to “release the data before making a beautiful web site” is highlighted, along with links to his TED talk and W3C presentations on open, linked data.  
- A public microfluidics paper repository is shared at http://dhcp-84-113.me.utexas.edu/papers/microfluidics/ and a broader collection of biology/neuro books at /books/Biology/neuro/.  
- Discussion of the “Materials Genome Project” (http://michaelgr.com/2008/07/02/materials-genome-project/) and the tongue-in-cheek suggestion of a “designome” or “desi-gnome” for open design data.  
- Exploration of using OpenCASCADE’s TopExp_Explorer class to automatically decompose legacy NIST CAD models (transmissions, CD players, mass spectrometers) into discrete parts for reuse.  
- Kanzure’s annotated OpenCASCADE bookmarks posted at http://heybryan.org/books/Manufacturing/pythonocc/opencascade.html.  
- HeeksCAD source dive: confusion over HeeksObj memory management and the absence of a lookup table mapping OCC shapes to Heeks objects.  
- PythonOCC is praised; its maintainers invite kanzure to be their Google Summer of Code mentor, while ybit plans to apply to work on Nepomuk semantic-desktop tech.  
- ybit and phreedom’s FreeFab.org project aims to build an open-source wire-EDM machine.  
- Wolfram Alpha is dismissed as “crazy stupid startup” by kanzure; ybit speculates whether it will use the PowerAquaLog semantic question-answering system.  
- A curated list of ~300 semantic-web tools and frameworks is shared at http://www.mkbergman.com/?page_id=325.