- fenn shared a link to archived “nezvanova” content and noted that the nato.0+55 project is “basically PureData for QuickTime movies,” describing VideoNervous as an extended-central-nervous-system concept where the performer and computer form a unified system and the hard-disk serves as a “memory bank” of sampled reality.

- dbolser asked for the “home EEG channel” and was directed to #emokit; he also reported that genomeunzipped rejected his attempt to upload 23andMe data.

- kanzure posted the RepRap Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas page (http://reprap.org/wiki/GSoC_2011) and expressed hope that RepRap would be accepted, citing precedent with OpenCog; he highlighted the “Reproid” Android host-controller project as an interesting entry.

- Discussion of Google’s crowdsourced Spanish voice-to-text initiative “El Quijote” (http://www.youtube.com/elquijote) praised the variety of accents and reading speeds; participants noted the archaic orthography of Cervantes compared to modern Spanish.

- jebba, who lived in Argentina for ~5 years and holds MERCOSUR permanent residency, contrasted Argentine Spanish pronunciation and grammar with other variants and mentioned an in-progress facing-page English translation of Horacio Quiroga’s public-domain South American Jungle Tales.

- ybit expressed interest in advanced Khan Academy content and noted Google’s funding for Spanish-language expansion; jebba remarked on the difficulty of textbook-grade translation versus conversational Spanish.

- kanzure linked to a NanoEngineer-dev Google Groups thread (http://groups.google.com/group/nanoengineer-dev/t/3eab9f98f5dc69e1) questioning whether the project’s contributors are active developers.

- JayDugger shared George Dvorsky’s obituary for Robert Bradbury (http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2011/03/remembering-robert-bradbury.html).