- Bryan is preparing a Quantified-Self talk on “meetlog,” his 2004-2011 personal database of ~4 000 people × ~100 attributes each; slides include YAML screenshots, a tag-cloud, and a “people-per-day” graph (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/presentations/quantified-self/meetlog.pdf).  
- Discussion of future meetlog features: tag/interest clustering via k-means, automatic e-mail introductions, and “communication reminders” to trigger deeper 6-hour sync-ups with contacts.  
- Quick-and-dirty visualization hack proposed: build a person-tag bipartite graph and lay it out with Graphviz fdp or Kamada-Kawai to reveal natural clusters.  
- Meredith Patterson (biohacker/security researcher) will visit Langton (Austin hackerspace) in August; anecdote that “mom didn’t know about transhumanism/diybio until the FBI came knocking” suggested as a slide.  
- Aaron Swartz JSTOR scraping incident dissected: indictment alleges intent to redistribute 4.8 M articles; channel debates civil-disobedience torrent dump vs. academic research defense, links to indictment PDF and DemandProgress support page.