- Discussion of reverse-engineering the Dropbox server protocol to create an open-source, self-hosted alternative that the official Dropbox client could still connect to.  
- Link shared to Jeff Greason’s “A Settlement Strategy for NASA” article on MoonandBack.com, outlining long-term human space settlement plans.  
- dbolser requested several paywalled papers on “database half-life” and “link death” in bioinformatics, eventually locating Markwell & Brooks (2003) on link rot in biochemistry education.  
- kanzure posted WebGL learning resources: the NeHe-style tutorials at learningwebgl.com, a Harvard MRI brain viewer, and a BioDigital Human anatomy model built with SceneJS.  
- kanzure also shared an open-access microfluidics textbook (Tabeling, Oxford Univ. Press) and a WebGL-based CAD viewer using PythonOCC.  
- Tyrant asked for repositories of CAD models for common parts; kanzure listed Google 3D Warehouse, Thingiverse, TraceParts, and 3DPartStream as partial solutions.  
- jrayhawk noted that Stanford’s free online AI course had already attracted over 100 000 sign-ups, highlighting the early success of open-access university education.