- DIY tissue-culture kits: links to Kitchen Culture Kit (http://www.kitchenculturekit.com/kit.htm) and Home Tissue Culture (http://www.hometissueculture.org/) were shared as open, low-cost entry points for home biology.  
- California “futurist tourism” brainstorm: participants weighed visiting Berger’s lab, UC Irvine stem-cell center, UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCLA CNSI core facilities, The Geysers geothermal plant, and a Vandenberg AFB rocket launch on 7 Dec 2009.  
- Indoor Wi-Fi localization experiment: kanzure demonstrated real-time room-level tracking by scraping signal-strength data with iwlist; screenshot at http://adl.serveftp.org/~bryan/screenshots/2009-11-15_indoor_localization.png.  
- Western Evolutionary Biology Meeting (WEB 3) announced for 5 Dec 2009 at UC Berkeley; free registration, focus on experimental evolution, aging, and biological immortality (contact: Michael R. Rose, UC Irvine).  
- FastWishes.com introduced as a new “wish-fulfillment” web service; no technical details given.  
- Pantograph engravers discussed as the historical tool for fabricating 0.3 mm-thick fluidic logic circuits; participants noted scarce documentation and the device’s pattern-reduction engraving capability.  
- Xmonad desktop customization showcased: ybit posted screenshots of dimmed inactive windows and custom color schemes for bpython, linking to a “Pimp your Xmonad” blog post (http://braincrater.wordpress.com/).