• QuantumG posted a draft “biohacking” manifesto at http://quantumg.net/biohacking/ and the channel debated whether “Open Source Ecology” is a misnomer; ybit argued the term should be replaced with “Open Systems” because the project ignores classical ecological metrics of organism distribution and abundance.

• kanzure highlighted Jeffrey Barrick’s 20-year E. coli evolution experiment talk at UT-Austin and suggested telling Trent about the “writozyme” in-vivo DNA-writing enzyme concept.

• Links to open-manufacturing resources circulated: the SKDB wiki stub on Wikipedia, Octopart’s new parts-feed format, SolidWorks 2009 running under Wine (via vcrun2005, ie6, gdiplus), and a Craigslist post seeking partners for an “open hardware store.”

• The “Instructables Restaurant” (http://instructablesrestaurant.com/)—the first eatery whose recipes, furniture, and instructions are entirely downloaded from Instructables—was introduced as an experiment in open-source gastronomy.

• A Yahoo! Groups thread on “open manufacturing ecosystems” was parsed; QuantumG translated “ecosystem” as a non-technical synonym for “toolchain,” clarifying the jargon for hardware collaboration networks.

• Adafruit’s 2009 slide deck on open-source hardware (http://blog.open-embedded.info/2009/04/open-source-hardware-overview-slides.html) and Hackaday’s printable CES badge were shared as practical open-hardware references.

• flamoot announced “telepathic-critterdrug,” a new Linux application for brain-interface experiments, and asked the channel to help archive the related 4chan /b/ thread (ID 188096829).

• Discussions referenced MakerBot utility for printing RepRap Mendel parts, the global spread of shanzhai (open knock-off) electronics, and the continued existence of the Usenet group alt.bio.hackers.