- The OPERA collaboration’s preprint claiming neutrinos arrived 60 ns faster than light (1.0000248 c) was circulated; participants quickly noted the small excess over c and predicted instrumentation error rather than new physics.  
- A live CERN webcast link for the OPERA result was shared, and the 167-author paper was jokingly described as “one person with a really long name.”  
- DIY luminescence experiments were showcased: a glow-in-the-dark volleyball coated with “glow goo” (strontium-aluminate in shoe-goo binder) and a fluorescent fern spine, with discussion of silicone caulk as a better binder.  
- Open-source hardware licensing tensions were highlighted: a heated e-mail debate between Phillip Torrone (Make) and Bruce Perens (OSI) on the updates@openhardwaresummit.org list, later summarized for the openmanufacturing Google group.  
- The “Zero State” political campaign by David Pearce was criticized as “lame” and off-topic; participants contrasted it with anarchist, project-focused approaches.  
- A disassembly/reverse-engineering thread included links to the complete annotated Pokémon Red source (pokered.asm) and a C# Pokémon battle engine, framed as examples of open-source game archaeology.  
- Recent memristor research was spotlighted: arXiv papers on memristive STDP-compatible synaptic models and memristive fuzzy edge detectors, with background links on spike-timing-dependent plasticity.  
- Library-pirate resources were pooled—library.nu, librarypirate.me, en.bookfi.org—offering large-scale access to scientific and technical texts.  
- Productivity and workflow issues were debated: the overhead of documenting nightly idea torrents, unreadable handwritten logs, and the trade-off between perfect architectural pitches and rapid prototyping.