• A hackerspace in Luxembourg (Hackerspace.lu) is bootstrapping a chemistry lab, documenting the effort publicly.  
• Andy, a local contact, offers community access to a 4×8-foot waterjet cutter and two Objet 3-D printers; participants debate immediate uses such as printing Mendel parts for resale.  
• The channel discusses material safety for laser and waterjet cutting: avoid PVC, ABS, polystyrene, and polystyrene foam; balsa wood is also discouraged.  
• A proposal from Thomas Paviot to fund ($250) a PythonOCC-related paper for SciPy 2010 in exchange for co-authorship is questioned as potentially exploitative.  
• King Fahd University’s open courseware (ocw.kfupm.edu.sa) is highlighted as a free source of detailed lecture notes on ion-selective electrodes, heat exchangers, and chemistry.  
• BrainPreservation.org is shared as a new resource on brain-banking and cryonics techniques.  
• Google Summer of Code 2010 participation for the Open Bioinformatics Foundation is noted, with only five student applications received so far.  
• A Reddit thread on forming an “open-source company” is criticized for misunderstanding open-source business models.