- A curated neuroscience image gallery at http://www.conncad.com/gallery/ and the Brainbow paper (http://bio.cc/Bioinformics/papers/brainbow/) were highlighted for their spectacular multicolor neuronal imaging techniques.  
- The Russian Transhumanist Movement streamed its fifth seminar live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rtmseminar5 and opened registration via a Google Form, continuing a series on transhumanist futures.  
- Participants are migrating a 300 MB NanoEngineer-1 SVN repository to Git, debating git-svn flags (--stdlayout, --noMetadata) and author-email mapping to clean history while benchmarking Git’s performance on large binary files.  
- A 2004 NASA NIAC study on kinematic cellular automata for self-replicating systems (http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/883Toth-Fejel.pdf) resurfaced, detailing silsesquioxane-based nanomachines and a 25 374-atom worm-drive assembly.  
- Kevin Kelly’s Google talk “What Technology Wants” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCWR0A3iziE) and an interview with Aubrey de Grey on longevity aesthetics (http://spacecollective.org/Wildcat/6465/Longevity-Its-for-Lovers-A-brief-interview-with-Aubrey-De-Grey) were shared as key media on technology and life-extension narratives.  
- A proposal emerged to treat legislation as source code—scraping public bills into an SCM for diff tracking and version control—as a long-term open-source governance experiment.  
- France’s first transhumanist conference was announced for 17 January in Paris via Yahoo Groups (http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/transhumanistes/message/944), marking a milestone for the French bio-futurist community.  
- Historical molecular-manufacturing startups such as Markus Krummenacker’s Molecubotics (archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20070205011008/http://www.molecubotics.com/) and Bruce Smith’s Nanorex were revisited for lessons in early nanotech commercialization.  
- An IEEE paper on mitigating cognitive bottlenecks through augmented-cognition adaptive systems (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1243935) was referenced as foundational reading for BCI and human-augmentation research.