- Mozilla’s “Tab Candy” interface (http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/tabcandy/) was highlighted as an elegant way to manage large numbers of browser tabs spatially.  
- The economic sustainability of DIYbio was debated: participants noted that while some individuals “live off DIYbio” via grants, Jason Bobe still holds a paid position in George Church’s lab.  
- A request circulated for an authoritative taxonomy or dictionary of standard laboratory equipment (pipettes, etc.) from bodies like IUPAC or NIST, but none was found.  
- Gerber-to-OpenSCAD conversion was demonstrated through a minimalist sed script (http://github.com/clothbot/eda/tree/master/gerber/), prompting jokes about its simplicity.  
- Discussion of low-field, open-source rTMS (repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) emphasized using ~20 Gauss surface fields (≈100 mA in a 1000-turn, 1 cm iron-core coil) rather than clinical 1.5 T pulses, with the Parallax Propeller 8-core MCU proposed for real-time signal generation.  
- Thingiverse posted a Craigslist ad seeking a developer (http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/eng/1880806188.html) and was recruiting “puppets” from the channel.  
- Finland’s new law making 1 Mbps broadband a legal right was shared as evidence that “bandwidth is a fundamental human right.”  
- Visualization ideas for Gary Wolf’s Quantified Self talk included tag clouds, per-person time-series plots, and social graphs that cluster people by shared tags rather than introduction chains.  
- NASDAQ’s ITCH market-data feed (ftp://emi.nasdaq.com/ITCH/) was linked for anyone interested in high-frequency trading data sets.