- Emotiv’s community manager “gmac” posted a new forum reply (http://emotiv.com/forum/messages/forum15/topic879/message5274/) that participants interpret as fear-mongering against the open-source “emokit” driver; speculation centers on Emotiv stalling shipments to protect IP ahead of a buyout.  
- Discussion of STEP vs. IGES file formats for the “lolcad” project: IGES was briefly considered simpler, but both formats are non-parametric and require numeric lookup tables; NIST’s STEP Class Library (SCL) and OpenCASCADE are being used to validate generated STEP files, revealing subtle formatting discrepancies (e.g., “1” vs “1.”).  
- DARPA declined to clarify whether their requested repository must be SysML/AADL-only or may also include CAD data, leaving the project scope ambiguous.  
- Yale’s eLab shared links to machine-vision posture-recognition research (http://www.eng.yale.edu/elab/research/postures/postures.html) and related “svision” work.  
- The European Commission is circulating a SurveyMonkey questionnaire (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PW7Q3V2) on “emerging transhumanism issues,” solicited by Miriam Leis.  
- A crowdsourcing contest on crowdSPRING (http://www.crowdspring.com/project/2288147_name-a-biohacking-supply-company/details/) is being used to name a new biohacking-supply venture; participants question why the easily remembered diysci.com domain is not being used.  
- NaroCAD released version 1.5.1, continuing its open-source CAD development effort (http://narocad.blogspot.com/2010/09/narocad-151-released.html).