• The group debated the ethics and feasibility of deliberate memory editing as a route to personality re-engineering, treating memory alteration as a de-facto form of self-transformation.  
• DIYbio experimentation was highlighted through the site www.diybio.biz, with participants weighing garage/basement labs against institutional resources and noting the tension between grassroots promotion and community credibility.  
• Technical reverse-engineering surfaced when one member sought help using the “gdb trick” (http://www.246tnt.com/iPhone/) to extract decrypted iPhone binaries from App Store executables.  
• A cache of ~3,500 university-level science and engineering lectures from hstalks.com was offered for bulk download, with free hosting options like dl.free.fr suggested for open redistribution.  
• Autodesk’s market dominance (100 % of Fortune 100, 88 % of Fortune 500) prompted renewed interest in founder John Walker’s nanotechnology essays at http://www.fourmilab.ch/.  
• Cryonics logistics were compared: Alcor versus the lower-cost Cryonics Institute, framed as a practical choice for cash-strapped grad students seeking personal biostasis.  
• Historical longevity of transhumanist IRC culture was discussed, contrasting the active #hplusroadmap with the defunct “immortal” channel on the old Extropian “lucifer” server and SL4.  
• Media links circulated included MIT World’s “ME++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City” (http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/170), the Thoughtware.tv blog, and a 2010 consumer-genomics landscape diagram (http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2010/10/consumer-genomic-testing-update.html).