• A 2010 PNAS paper compares the topology and evolution of regulatory control networks in E. coli to those in the Linux operating system, framing biological systems as computational architectures (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/04/28/0914771107).

• Utopiah shared a video talk on the Singularity, Omega Point, and historiography that builds on the h+ Magazine article “Build an Optimal Scientist, Then Retire” (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS5C88bGRcM).

• A free e-book on metamaterials from late 2009 was circulated (http://www.ebookshare.net/professional-and-technical/Metamaterials-Nov-2009-eBook-ELOHiM-9132.html); participants noted it is essentially a bound collection of research papers.

• Discussion of the ResearchClub Vimeo channel (http://vimeo.com/researchclub) prompted debate over whether its content is mostly “artsy fartsy crap” and anti-Singularity propaganda versus valuable research media.

• Fenn observed that the absolute rate of change today exceeds that of the 1500s, and quoted the talk’s definition of “interestingness” as “the first derivative of subjective beauty or compressibility.”