- A new crowdfunding platform, opensciencefund.com/.org, is being designed as a Kickstarter-style site dedicated to DIYbio research grants; its alpha roadmap includes a co-op store for discounted experiment kits and later integration with the gnusha package-management ecosystem.

- Community members circulated a trove of DIYbio infrastructure links: a $100 home clean-room build guide, a webcam-based alpha-particle detector, coverage of Elsevier’s fake Merck journal scandal, and announcements for food-hacking and bio-hacking sessions at SXSW 2010.

- Technical debates compared CAD (pythonOCC) and finite-element tools (COMSOL Multiphysics) for open-hardware design, weighed WSGI deployment options (mod_wsgi vs. lighttpd vs. Apache), and evaluated CMS choices (WordPress vs. Drupal vs. static-site generators) for hosting science-fund sites.

- A 525 MB Twitter social-graph dataset (~56 k user-user links with temporal topology) was released at http://www.public.asu.edu/~mdechoud/data/twitter_data.zip for open network-analysis experiments.

- Hardware and software notes included a $100 1.5 TB hard-drive deal, rumors of Haptek open-sourcing its virtual-human SDK, Willow Garage’s blog post showcasing “lots of Texas robots,” and the recommendation of Nginx over Lighttpd for safer, more robust proxying and FastCGI workloads.