• RoboEarth was highlighted as a “World Wide Web for robots,” a cloud database where robots can share knowledge about behaviors and environments to accelerate collective learning.  
• Discussion of distributed web-scraping architectures referenced Swarm-DPL (code.google.com/p/swarm-dpl) as a foundation for botnet-style, massively parallel data collection.  
• Google+’s real-name policy debate surfaced; participants proposed encoding identity with base64-plus-space tricks to evade automated name policing.  
• Open-source EDA tools were compared: KiCad was recommended for schematic capture because of its OrCAD-like workflow, while gEDA and “other stuff” were mentioned as alternatives.  
• A live laser-test session drew an unexpected visit from Dalrymple, and Star Simpson expressed interest in building “taco-copters,” i.e., a UAV-based highway delivery network.  
• Azonenberg circulated a 5 µm-process IC layout image (imgur.com/Si3XY) featuring 5-lambda-square features, inviting mask art down to single-atom scale.  
• Cadmium, a Python solid-modeling library by the creator of 3DTin, was introduced; screenshots showed sphere-minus-cube CSG operations rendered in MeshLab.  
• A humorous YouTube clip (“What being a hacker is like”) was shared to illustrate the multitasking, multi-keyboard reality of intensive coding sessions.