- A $99 23andMe personal-genomics sale (code B84YAG, Wed 10 am PST) was announced, prompting discussion about privacy concerns and a possible hidden $5/month subscription fee.  
- DIY OLED fabrication was highlighted via a YouTube tutorial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAgRF8TibJ0).  
- TangibleBit.com was introduced as a new open-hardware-knowledge project spun out after a code-style dispute in the SKDB repository.  
- A call for shared lodging at the December H+ Conference at Caltech was posted to reduce attendee costs.  
- World Community Grid celebrated its sixth anniversary; the distributed-computing platform was noted as a ready tool for open bio-research.  
- A*STAR’s IMRE and ten EU partners were reported to be developing a single-molecule processor chip, with claims that a thousand such devices could fit on one current microchip.  
- The Open Science Fund was criticized for a “science writer” recruitment drive perceived as low-quality outreach.  
- Ongoing IRC-log analysis work (meetlog.git) was discussed, including a 4 MB YAML dump of participant data and performance bottlenecks in tag extraction.  
- Android modding chatter covered building custom ROMs with ROM Manager and the merits of wiping iOS from company-owned iPhones.