- Iron-filled carbon nanotubes proposed as a data-storage medium capable of retaining information for millions of years; link to ScienceNOW article provided.  
- Slashdot post shared on a 1949 hydraulic analog computer, reviving interest in fluidic computing as a historical and potentially future technology.  
- Discussion of a disconnect between DIYBio practitioners and mainstream transhumanist (“Xhumanist”) circles; wrldpc argues DIYBio may be the more authentic, action-oriented wing of transhumanism.  
- Aubrey de Grey reportedly downplayed DIYBio’s relevance to SENS research, prompting questions about what minimal equipment would actually be required for grassroots longevity experiments.  
- kanzure and fenn debate technical details of a bond-graph modeling paper, focusing on the definition and construction of the A_f matrix used to represent multi-domain (hydraulic, rotational, electrical) systems.  
- kanzure reports slow upload of a “papers-backup-2009-06-02.tar” archive and experiments with filesystem creation (mkfs.ext3, btrfs) for lab server organization.  
- Plans voiced to create a public gallery of past lab work on adl.serveftp.org and sata.serveftp.org, including lost collections of generated PNGs.