- A J. Craig Venter Institute employee (Phil Goetz) is surveying the community about interest in a DIYbio lab; survey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TB79QY6.  
- Participants debated the feasibility and security model of a “paperleaks.org”-style service for open-access scientific literature, weighing Freenet, BitTorrent, and other distributed infrastructures against legal exposure.  
- Eclipse Phase, the transhumanist tabletop RPG, is gaining traction in mainstream RPG forums and is cited as a gateway for introducing scientific concepts into gameplay; Singularity Hub coverage and Posthuman Studios’ 2010 year-end review were referenced.  
- A member outlined a vision for an RPG that requires real scientific knowledge for character advancement, half-joking that “maybe that’s called real life.”  
- The channel shared a WebGL demo of an interactive Porsche 3-D model (http://helloracer.com/webgl/) and discussed performance quirks in Chromium.  
- A microfluidic blood-analysis chip using degas-driven flow to separate cells from plasma was highlighted as a low-cost diagnostic tool.  
- Jonathan Cline’s synthetic-biology notebook (http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/290) and Eric Meltzer’s openprotocols.net project were recommended as resources for protocol standardization.  
- A 1980s LUF strategic plan that accurately predicted “5 FabLabs by 2015” was rediscovered and praised for its foresight.  
- Concerns were raised about the Bulletproof Executive’s claim that 30 minutes of daily sun exposure obviates sunscreen, prompting skepticism about vitamin-D dosage and skin-cancer risk.