• A Berkeley robotics page on a “Möbius gear” mechanism was shared, illustrating an unusual mechanical linkage that loops through itself like a Möbius strip.  
• A Nature Neuroscience paper on Drosophila flight was highlighted: “Active flight increases the gain of visual motion processing in Drosophila”; participants wanted details on how the researchers obtained EEG-like recordings from fruit flies and the specifications of their experimental apparatus.  
• Discussion of extracting and running BBC-hosted Flash slideshows offline; jrayhawk outlined a technique using symbolic links to spoof the expected URL so that local copies of SWF files (e.g., the BBC fruit-fly audio slideshow) can be executed without server dependencies.  
• A brief debate on language choice for a never-ending game engine: core logic in C for speed, with Python or Ruby bindings for rapid prototyping and interactive scripting, weighed against the observation that interpreted languages can actually improve frame-rate stability by letting the interpreter consume only the remaining frame time.  
• References to open-ended game concepts included Dwarf Fortress and “Infinite Mario Bros” (a Java-based procedural Mario clone) as examples of systems that generate endless, non-repeating content.