- Sig.ma, a visual Semantic-Web browser released by DERI, shows how RDFa/RDF/Microformat data already indexed by Google and Yahoo can be automatically composed into structured pages and accessed via an API for programmatic reuse.  
- Participants proposed building a personal, coordinate-based “brain map” to store and retrieve neuroscience literature by anatomical location, complementing the Allen Institute and Blue Brain Project atlases.  
- The SKDB open-source hardware package manager is under active development: commits include unit tests for pymates parts, new assembly-graph concepts, removal of OpenCASCADE display dependencies, and CAD-to-assembly tools such as LDraw-to-STL/OBJ converters and STEP-file interference detection.  
- Frustration with diybio.org’s centralized, non-editable structure sparked debate over whether forking the community is healthy evolution or destructive fragmentation; scattered open-source biology hardware projects (gel boxes, PCR machines) lack a unified wiki or repository.  
- A 3.4 GB archive of >1 300 research papers covering laser cooling, skin-impedance reduction, cannabis sex reversal, and more was made freely available at adl.serveftp.org/papers/ for unrestricted mirroring.  
- Detailed DNA-synthesizer chemistry was refined: nucleosides must be protected with TBDPS-Cl, de-protected with fluoride, then phosphitylated with β-cyanoethyl N,N-bis(diisopropylamino)chlorophosphine—steps previously missing from open-hardware notes.  
- A Creative-Commons LDraw parts library (~40 k bricks) was identified as a testbed for generative design and mechanism synthesis, with discussion on home-fabricating Lego-compatible bricks via SLS, EBM, or micro-milled injection molds.  
- genehacker2 critiqued Bolonkin’s superconducting magnetic-levitation concept, arguing shielding half of a current loop merely shifts Lorentz force to the shield, producing zero net lift, and proposed an experiment with ferrite-core coils to test the claim.