- A 370,000-title, 3-TB trove of freely downloadable academic and technical e-books surfaced at http://free-books.dontexist.com; the collection is being mirrored via torrents and includes rare Stanford/Harvard titles.  
- Kanzure co-authored “Impacting Designer Creativity Through IT-Enabled Concept Generation” (DOI: 10.1115/1.3484089) and linked the now-defunct VisualizeIT project blog at voiced.device.mst.edu/groups/VisualizeIT/blog.  
- Discussion of open-hardware IP registries referenced OHANDA’s representation at the 2010 Open Hardware Summit in NYC.  
- DIYbio NYC and the BioBus collaboration won MAKE Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award; the group’s blog post was circulated.  
- Wired’s “Wired University” domestic-tech course and GitHub’s new git-backed wiki engine Gollum were both flagged as resources for open-science documentation.  
- A 67-page technical analysis of the Stuxnet worm was shared (http://eset.ru/.company/.viruslab/analytics/doc/Stuxnet_Under_the_Microscope.pdf).  
- Surplus lab and maker gear—an 85-lb Kodak document scanner, an EG&G X-ray inspection system, and a ruggedized suitcase computer—were evaluated for purchase on a liquidation auction site.  
- NASA authorization politics were briefly debated; QuantumG noted that House/Senate bill differences are minor and appropriations are unlikely to move during the lame-duck session.  
- China’s parallel internet ecosystem was highlighted with links to Tudou (YouTube analog) and the QQ messaging platform.