- A 2006 Whitesides article on microfluidics was mentioned as a valuable reference, but no link was provided.  
- A French news item falsely claimed Google was opening “transhumanist” research labs in France; the rumor was quickly debunked by local transhumanist groups (links to Yahoo group and forum posts provided).  
- The French transhumanist association released an English-language press release for an upcoming summer conference at http://www.transhumanistes.com/conf2/PressRelease.pdf.  
- Discussion critiqued fightaging.org’s “Vegas Group” proposal as heavy on rhetoric but lacking technical feasibility or clear value for DIY longevity documentation.  
- A participant proposed developing a machine-readable language for bio-protocols that could be “compiled” to run on different hardware, with PCR suggested as an initial use-case.  
- Kanzure agreed to locate and upload a previously scraped protocol-online.tar.gz dataset to seed such a protocol-description project.  
- A literature reference was made to a CD-ROM–based protein-purification rig as an example of alternative bio-hardware.  
- The RepRap git mirror was noted to be stale; an automated SVN-to-git sync script was disabled.