- A participant shared Wikipedia and Amazon links on adeno-associated virus (AAV) and Martin Nowak’s “Virus Dynamics,” prompting a request for PDFs of Nowak’s more recent works from his Harvard faculty page.  
- Discussion of open-source genome-sequencing efforts included a link to a SeqAnswers forum thread listing next-generation DNA-sequencing companies and a skeptical note that the much-touted “open-source” GnuBio startup is not actually open source.  
- The PS3 private-key break was analyzed: reverse engineers discovered Sony’s ECDSA implementation reused a constant random seed, nullifying the cryptographic protection; links to the 27C3 talk and an open-source laser projector project by the same researcher were provided.  
- Creative Commons and open-patent licensing options were surfaced, including Science Commons patent licenses, the Open Patent License, and Public Knowledge’s “It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw It Up” white-paper.  
- Humanity+ UK 2011 conference speakers and an EMBL summer-school program on human enhancement were announced, along with news that the Immortality Institute plans to fold its student chapters into Humanity+.  
- A community member reported scraping and aggregating every hackerspace’s contact data (web, Twitter, RSS, IRC, mailing lists) into a Google spreadsheet and then subscribing a single Gmail account to ~200 mailing lists—hitting Google’s group-subscription limit.  
- Open-source social-web protocols were debated: Diaspora was criticized for lacking a formalized protocol, while BuddyCloud was noted as an XMPP pub-sub-based federated alternative.  
- The RepRap ecosystem appeared in unexpected places: a job posting by Tethers Unlimited sought SolidWorks/Matlab/IDL/RepRap proficiency, and kanzure’s diyhpl.us hosted a RepRap Git repository that initially lacked the git-daemon-export-ok flag.  
- ikiwiki technical questions arose about rendering images from every Git revision without regenerating all assets on each commit; the need for per-revision object-ID folders within the working directory was considered.  
- Miscellaneous links included steampunk vehicle builds, the controversial Emdrive propulsion concept, and a Coast-to-Coast AM podcast on future studies at the University of Houston.