- Meredith Patterson’s “Biopunk Manifesto” talk is now available as video at http://artsci.ucla.edu/videos/outlaw_biology/OB5_Meredith_Patterson/, adding to the growing archive of DIY-bio discourse.  
- A new H+ Magazine post argues that “the biotech revolution must start with education,” and kanzure followed up with a cluster of Japanese synthetic-biology resources: Osaka University’s SymBio, Chiba University’s graduate program, Tokyo Tech’s SB lab, RIKEN’s Functional Genomics & CDB centers, and Waseda’s Hideo Iwasaki group.  
- RepRap developers are debating design-file formats again; jmil and kanzure push for source-oriented, ASCII-based storage instead of PDF or STL exports, warning that “PDF vs. git” style flame wars may resurface.  
- kanzure is stalled on the CAD visualization front-end; #python advised against ipython ‑wthread and suggested embedding interpreter hooks, while epitron recommends Reinteract for its dependency-tracking, re-executable history and lightweight embeddability.  
- NanoHive-1 and its @Home BOINC project (tooltip failure-mode search) are unmaintained; original author Brian Helfrich is willing to hand over keys, presenting an opportunity to revive open-source nanotech simulation tools.  
- Links to early nanotech commons literature surface: Bryan Bruns’ papers on open-source nanotech R&D, the defunct Zyvex DiamondCAD effort, and the “open patent license” concept.  
- Discussion of chemical-structure drawing software: drazak weighs free access to ChemBioDraw Office against open-source alternatives like ChemDoodle, seeking tools that convert textual formulas (e.g., SMILES) to 2-D/3-D structures.