• Sid’s “2010 Storm Drones” post (http://thetechnologist.tv/blog/2010-storm-drones) was discussed; it focuses on open-hardware drone concepts and includes heavy Apple criticism.  
• fenn reported that the PlayStation Eye webcam delivers 60 fps even in low light and has four on-board microphones, making it a cheap, high-performance sensor for DIY vision projects.  
• A DIY electrooculogram (EOG) eye-tracking project was proposed; participants debated whether EOG signals alone could provide reliable mouse-like or pie-menu control, and they shared links to academic and commercial eye-tracking labs (e.g., ETH Zürich wearable group, Israeli IIPDM lab).  
• kanzure released meet-log analytics showing 12–13 new people per day entering the channel from 2004-2010, with visualizations at http://designfiles.org/~bryan/meetlog/; he noted the data lack time-spent-per-person metrics that would enable richer 3-D temporal plots.  
• “A Biopunk Manifesto” by Meredith Patterson (http://maradydd.livejournal.com/496085.html) was circulated, framing citizen biology as a civil-rights issue and calling for open-source lab gear.  
• superkuh’s open-source “processactogram” script (http://superkuh.ath.cx/users/superkuh/processactogram.pl) was highlighted; it logs active window titles and idle time to generate 12-day activity heat-maps, requiring only Perl, GD, and X11 tools.  
• Contract-negotiation tactics were discussed: kanzure plans to hire an expensive lawyer, while jdugger emphasized that merely mentioning retained counsel increases employer seriousness.  
• Productivity and cognitive-enhancement threads covered modafinil, David Allen’s GTD methodology, and the synergy between GTD and Emacs org-mode for task capture and scheduling.  
• The Quantified Self meetup in Austin drew ~70 attendees; fenn noted unexpectedly high interest in his projects and set journalists on superkuh’s trail for future coverage.  
• Links to open resources included the Humanity+ forums (http://fora.humanityplus.org/), Pumping Station One’s parts-supplier list (http://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/index.php/Sources), and ybit’s mirror of “The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance.”