• The FBI’s synthetic-biology outreach team has expanded; Ed You confirmed that new staff like Nate Head and Kim are joining the unit, and the FBI released a podcast on synthetic-biology biosecurity at http://www.fbi.gov/news/podcasts/thisweek/synthetic-biology-i.mp3/view.

• Len Sassaman, a well-known cypherpunk and privacy advocate, died by suicide; the news was confirmed on Hacker News and via Meredith Patterson’s Twitter, prompting discussion about mental health in the community.

• Archels is developing a wrist-worn health-tracking prototype and has enrolled in the Basis Band beta program (http://mybasis.com/) to gather additional biometric data.

• Open Science sessions at the OKCon conference were summarized in two blog posts (Day 1 and Day 2 at http://science.okfn.org), and a new mailing list—open-science-dev—was created for tool builders and citizen-cyberscience projects.

• Community members discussed practical DIY infrastructure: ybit asked about precision tolerances for earthbag construction before plastering, shared a torrent link to “Off-the-Grid Texts,” and sought help translating Polish-language CEB-press plans hosted on Oregon State’s OpenPario site.

• NanoEngineer, an open-source molecular-modeling package, was considered for installation in a Python virtualenv as part of ongoing nanotechnology design work.

• Flight-search optimization tips were exchanged: kanzure praised ITA Matrix (http://matrix.itasoftware.com/), while foucist recommended Skyscanner for flexible-destination price discovery.

• Personal health crises were shared: AlonzoTG’s mother has an inoperable uterine tumor with metastasis suspected, prompting kanzure to suggest obtaining detailed pathology and exploring further treatment options.

• Quantified-self practices were highlighted: kanzure maintains a public log of all interactions at http://diyhpl.us/cgit/meetlog/plain/meetlog.txt, and nuba reported adopting Emacs org-mode for enhanced note-taking after previous discussions.