- A 3.4 GB archive of scientific papers was released at http://adl.serveftp.org/papers/papers-backup-2009-06-02.tar and mirrored at http://sata.serveftp.org/~bryan/papers/papers-backup-2009-06-02.tar; a smaller microfluidics-focused subset (microfluidics_2009-06-01.zip) was also provided.

- An additional collection on automated design was uncovered at http://adl.serveftp.org/papers/review/ (not yet including graph-grammar or Campbell material).

- Discussion of non-canonical nucleic acids highlighted glycerol nucleic acid (GNA) as a simpler-to-synthesize alternative to DNA; Szostak’s lab showed that Bst polymerase can enzymatically copy GNA templates without stable duplex formation (PNAS 104:14598, 2007).

- DIYbio governance concerns surfaced when participants suspected a “spook” posting policy-oriented questions; members debated adopting an informal “Rule 1: do not talk about DIYbio to the press.”

- A request circulated for a Firefox-extension GUI developer willing to work with XUL after the original author’s failed attempts.

- A tongue-in-cheek proposal was floated for an IRC client that encodes messages in Morse code and displays them via a computer’s status LED.