- The telexlr8 project is shutting down for financial reasons, illustrating the fragility of small-scale open-transhumanist initiatives.  
- WikiGenes’ GWAS page (wikigenes.org/GWAS.html) was floated as a crowdsourced paper whose heavy contributors could earn Nature Genetics co-authorship, highlighting a novel open-science authorship model.  
- The NanoEngineer-1 CAD codebase has been successfully migrated to a clean Git repository (http://diyhpl.us/cgit/nanoengineer-fixed) with full file-history tracking, reviving a key open-source nanotech design tool.  
- Kinect’s $50 BOM is being eyed as an ultra-low-cost depth camera for ROS-based 3-D scene reconstruction and object-tracking pipelines, potentially democratizing advanced computer-vision research.  
- A December 2010 seasteading conference will be live-streamed via TechZulu (Ustream/Justin.tv/Stickam), while Waterstudio.nl’s floating-architecture portfolio and the $1.5 M sale of HMS Invincible were discussed as concrete seasteading resources.  
- “Biohacking” has entered the Oxford English Dictionary, signaling mainstream recognition of citizen-science and DIY biology movements.