- A viral marketing campaign for “Rachel Sequoia” (a satirical start-up pitch) was discussed; the two YouTube videos (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wyrFWbGiGOc and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDOHEWMXXyk) were cited as templates for a future presentation style.  
- Utopiah shared TurkPipe (http://code.google.com/p/turkpipe/), a tool for batching Mechanical Turk jobs, as a practical method for scaling micro-task workflows.  
- FPGA-based high-frequency trading hardware was highlighted with links to commercial platforms (http://infpga.com/products/ and http://www.exegy.com/#).  
- kanzure posted the nascent “antischismogenesis” PHP project on GitHub (https://github.com/ambiversive/antischismogenesis/) and asked for help correlating the code with its Reddit description (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gf20b/would_you_be_interested_in_a_website_that_tells/c1n4bn4).  
- The Aging Intervention Foundation’s longevity-research funding list (http://aginginterventionfoundation.org/details/projects/) was criticized for poor web design that undermines fundraising credibility.  
- NASA’s first Open Source Summit was noted (http://opensource.com/life/11/3/nasa-concludes-first-open-source-summit-aims-make-openness-default) along with an accompanying Google Doc summarizing outcomes.  
- DIYbio safety and ethical codes were linked (http://diybio.org/codes) in the context of the newly released book “Biopunk: Scientists Who Hack the Software of Life” (http://www.amazon.com/Biopunk-Scientists-Hack-Software-Life/dp/1617230022), which features kanzure and sparked debate about perceived exaggerations in the narrative.  
- kanzure’s two-part podcast interview on “The Future and You” was released (part 1: http://traffic.libsyn.com/thefutureandyou/TFAY_2011_3_16.mp3, part 2: http://traffic.libsyn.com/thefutureandyou/TFAY_2011_3_23.mp3).  
- A potential $20 k–$100 k H+ HUD hardware project was floated; Daeken emphasized that fully open hardware specs are a deal-breaker, whereas open-source software and permissive patent sublicensing (via Creative Commons model licenses) might be negotiable.  
- Tyrant sought CNC-millable gift ideas for Thiel Foundation organizers; kanzure suggested repositories such as Thingiverse, Ponoko, Shapeways, TraceParts, 3D ContentCentral, and Google 3D Warehouse.