- A working draft of business models for the gnusha/skdb open-source hardware project was shared at http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ad_WP5lmDYDzZHQ4MmZxMl8xM2ZrMmZjOWZ0&hl=en and contributors were invited to rewrite it freely.  
- The Hacker Foundation (http://hackerfoundation.org/) was highlighted as an organization that actively fosters the creation of hackerspaces.  
- PeerTracker, an open-source BitTorrent tracker implementation, was posted at http://code.google.com/p/peertracker/ for decentralized file distribution.  
- A new Python script in the pyscholar repository (commit r41ae7fb) was announced that can automatically download PDF documents from Wiley Interscience given an article ID.  
- The blog and PDF of Kevin Carson’s “Homebrew Industrial Revolution” were circulated as recommended reading on distributed manufacturing and post-scarcity economics (http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/ and http://ybit.ath.cx/text/homebrew_industrial_revolution.pdf).  
- Discussion of a tissue-engineering paper on growing replacement teeth in mice centered on the technique of transplanting cell aggregates under the kidney capsule (“subrenal capsule”) for 14 days to assess histology before oral implantation; the paper was uploaded to http://diybioforum.org/PDF/engineered_tooth.  
- A fringe claim from the book “DNA: Pirates of the Sacred Spiral” that “90 % of DNA functions in bioacoustic and bioelectric signalling” was examined and quickly dismissed as conspiracy-oriented pseudoscience after tracing its appearance on the OpenFarmTech blog.  
- The Open Organization of Lockpickers (TOOOL) at http://toool.us/ was shared as a resource for physical-security research and education.  
- Links to two technical reports on cyber-espionage campaigns targeting Tibetan activists and human-rights workers were posted from http://www.securityfocus.com/blogs/1809.