- Virginia Tech’s GenoTHREAT project (http://dev.vbi.vt.edu/projects/genothreat/) was mocked for its ominous name, highlighting lingering sensitivity after the 2007 campus shooting.  
- Discussion of Michael Vassar framed him as a controversial “psychological hack” used by some rationalists to overcome analysis-paralysis and guilt-driven inaction.  
- A late-night coding sprint focused on implementing international phone-number verification, with the shortest national numbers noted to be only five digits long.  
- BRL-CAD was announced as a Google Summer of Code participant, expanding open-source CAD opportunities.  
- Git repository front-end options (gitweb vs. cgit) were weighed; the sysadmin claimed a ten-minute switch time and the possibility of running both simultaneously.  
- A 6,000-character PHP regular expression for RFC-822 e-mail validation (http://code.iamcal.com/php/rfc822/full_regexp.txt) was shared as an example of regex absurdity.  
- Artist Laurie Frick’s data-visualization work—stacked wooden blocks representing personal metrics—was critiqued for turning simple CSS graphs into “art” worthy of gallery and media coverage.