- A proposal for a “Transhuman Olympics” was floated—an unrestricted competition where gene enhancement, implants, and other augmentations would be explicitly allowed, framed as a way to channel elite athletes who are banned from traditional events.  
- QuantumG circulated two papers on gravito-electromagnetic propulsion: one reporting anomalous thrust from a spinning superconducting disk (http://designfiles.org/papers/Measurement_of_Gravitomagnetic_and_Acceleration_Fields_Around_Rotating_Superconductors.pdf) and a follow-up theoretical design for a propellant-less “gravitomagnetic thruster” (http://designfiles.org/papers/Current_Research_in_Gravito-Electromagnetic_Space_Propulsion.pdf).  Discussion concluded the concept is still at TRL-0 and lacks independent replication.  
- kanzure linked several open-source modular-construction projects—OpenStructures, Utilihab, MakerBeam, Contraptor, and Intrastructures—arguing the ecosystem is fragmented and needs consolidation.  
- Anders Sandberg publicly acknowledged using modafinil for cognitive enhancement in a blog post (http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2010/02/out_of_the_closet.html), prompting debate on sourcing and DIY synthesis.  
- fenn praised Anki, an open-source spaced-repetition flash-card program, as a practical tool for long-term memory retention and wondered aloud how the same algorithm could be applied to music-practice scheduling.  
- kanzure documented the messy state of a defunct startup’s server: live web code under SVN, uncommitted changes on top of a tagged release, and no staging environment—used as a cautionary tale for reproducible dev-ops.  
- A 1997 CHI paper on finger-mounted accelerometers as one-handed text input (52-symbol set at 200 symbols/min ≈ 80 wpm) was rediscovered and judged superior to most contemporary wearable keyboards.  
- Elifarley Cruz’s curated list of open-source car and transportation projects (http://elifarley.amplify.com/2010/01/27/opensource-cars-transportation/) was noted, though no direct contact e-mail could be found.  
- kanzure shared links to emergent neural-network software (Leabra) and Ruby tools for programmatic data scraping (rednails, python-spidermonkey) as potential building blocks for automated research pipelines.