• A collaborative document titled “Open Source Hardware Business Models (OSHBM)” was being actively edited; new sections added include “extant body modification communities,” “vets, pets, livestock,” and an “Import Landing Pad” for peripheral material such as SKDB introductions and life-cycle assessments.

• JayDugger proposed an open-source inkjet tattoo gun concept that could import a cameraphone image and directly print it as a tattoo, noting William Gibson’s prior fictional depiction in “Virtual Light.”

• Redeemer shared plans to salvage microwave transformers to build a DIY spot welder, referencing an Instructables guide, and mentioned a longer-term goal of assembling multiple magnetrons into a phase-locked microwave energy-beam emitter.

• Kanzure circulated a link to “The Physical Basis of Atomically Precise Manufacturing” (metamodern.com, June 2009) and later noted an upcoming H+ Magazine article on re-engineering the human immune system.

• Discussion touched on the perceived lack of agronomic depth in Openfarmtech’s open-source agriculture work, questioning why their documented processes are not more broadly generalized beyond hardware.

• A request was made for reviewers with formal business-administration expertise—especially from business schools—to critique the OSHBM models.

• Utopiah attempted to access JAXA’s Space Agriculture pages (surc.isas.jaxa.jp/space_agriculture) and confirmed the site was down, resorting to Google Cache.

• Ybit highlighted Media Cloud (mediacloud.org), an open-source Berkman Center project for large-scale media analysis, providing links to its Google Summer of Code 2009 efforts and downloadable source tarball.

• Kanzure expressed frustration with buzzwords like “social media” and skepticism toward projects claiming future open-source releases without immediate code availability.