- A FriendFeed post on “Ethics of DIY bio-hacking in Singapore” was shared, highlighting early global discussion of community lab safety and regulation.  
- Participants debated the lack of quality introductory web pages for transhumanism; Max More’s 1990 essay “Extropy: The Philosophy of Transhumanism” (maxmore.com/extprn3.htm) was cited as one of the few exceptions.  
- The absence of online archives for FM-2030’s writings was noted, with the suggestion to contact Natasha Vita-More for access.  
- Gephi (gephi.org), an open-source network-visualization platform supporting up to 50 k nodes/500 k edges via OpenGL, was examined for its scaling claims and potential use in mapping transhumanist research networks.  
- Practical DIY hardware efforts were discussed: ordering parts for the Mini-Mendel RepRap variant and price-shopping socket-head cap screws between McMaster-Carr and Enco.  
- A Make Magazine image of an ultra-compact workshop layout was circulated as inspiration for space-efficient bio- and hardware-lab setups.  
- Tito Jankowski’s latest domain, dnadeal.com, was dismissed as “spam,” while the idea of using survey data to track auction prices for second-hand lab equipment was endorsed as useful for community resource sharing.