- JayDugger demonstrated using VLC for synchronized screen- and webcam-recording, then overlaying the data with IOGraph mouse-tracking to map gaze and pointer activity; he floated ideas such as remote tech-support (seeing both screen events and the user’s facial reactions) and replacing the physical keyboard with an overhead camera that watches hand gestures.  
- Discussion surfaced the privacy and practicality limits of always-on desktop-plus-user recording, and the observation that tiling window managers and touch-typing reduce the information content of traditional mouse-heat-map tools like IOGraph.  
- A brief exchange referenced an NTT BRL eye-tracking page (http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/takehiko/) and the IOGraph site (http://iographica.com/) as prior art for low-cost gaze and posture monitoring.  
- kanzure reported that Ben Goertzel and others at h+ Magazine are accusing him of “unprofessionalism” for not continuing unpaid bug-fixes on the magazine’s website; the episode was framed as a cautionary tale about handshake agreements versus formal contracts, especially when IP ownership and non-profit status are ambiguous.  
- Humanity+ Executive Director Tom McCabe joined the channel to explore funding fenn’s open-source wearable HUD/“scouter” project; kanzure pressed for mechanisms that would insulate the work from H+ board politics and micromanagement, and posted an updated project list at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/diytranshuman_projects.v4.html.  
- kanzure also advised Daeken to request a lightning-talk slot at an upcoming H+ event and to insist on waived registration fees, illustrating the informal gate-keeping culture around transhumanist conferences.  
- A PLoS ONE paper on engineering subtle cues in political debates (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018154) was circulated, tying into broader interests in cognitive influence and persuasion technologies.  
- Gary Johnson’s support for DIYbio was mentioned anecdotally—specifically his willingness to defend an individual’s right to sell body parts—highlighting the intersection of bio-libertarian politics and open-source biology.