- Google’s new “Curriculum Search” (code.google.com/edu/curriculumsearch/) was highlighted as a resource for educators and open-education advocates.  
- The Open Source Drug Discovery network (OSDD.net) and the Mancoosi CUDF package-format project (mancoosi.org/cudf/) were both shared as infrastructure-level tools for collaborative science.  
- A blog post by Andy Ellington (ellingtonlab.org/blog/?p=153) sparked discussion on DIYbio security framing, with the tongue-in-cheek remark that “otherwise I have no excuse to buy a volcano” illustrating the tension between sensationalist bioterror narratives and actual garage-lab capabilities.  
- kanzure compiled an extensive list of ~20 active people and groups in the Los-Angeles DIYbio / RepRap scene (including Jerry Isdale, Sean Bonner, Cory Tobin, and the LA-GRG/SENS crowd) to map the local network.  
- A newcomer from the DIYBio community asked for information on SKDB (the “Standardized Knowledge Database” project); kanzure pointed them to the GitHub repo (github.com/kanzure/skdb) and a cgit mirror (diyhpl.us/cgit/skdb/).  
- H+ Summit organizers were said to want a RepRap-related talk; kanzure suggested inviting Hod Lipson, one of the platform’s originators.  
- A remote-controlled tree-climbing robot (boingboing.net/gadgets/2007/10/25/remotecontrolled-tre.html) was posted as biomimetic inspiration for future open-hardware limbs.  
- kanzure aired a design dilemma in lolcad (a CAD scripting experiment) about how to name edges, add new ones on-the-fly, and keep variable names semantically meaningful in Python.