- The DIYbio community launched a new safety resource page at http://diybio.org/safety/ and a dedicated biosafety resources section, accompanied by a Woodrow Wilson Center press release on “Responsible Science for Do-It-Yourself Biologists.”  
- A collaborative nootropics information site is under active development; features planned include a “regimen lister/sharing” tool to let users publish and compare cognitive-enhancement stacks.  
- Discussion of online education centered on the Stanford AI and ML classes: participants criticized the format as “retarded” and quiz-heavy, while others praised the content and noted that crashed servers had extended deadlines.  
- A PyPy blog post (http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-porting-numpy-to-pypy.html) was shared as relevant to accelerating scientific Python workloads.  
- The scarcity economics of discontinued ergonomic hardware was highlighted: Fingerworks Touchstream keyboards now fetch $800–$1,580 on eBay, and TypeMatrix 2030 models were recommended as alternatives.  
- A brief debate on bodily commodification referenced the 2011 news story of a Chinese teen selling a kidney to buy an iPad, prompting the tongue-in-cheek observation that cheaporgans.com was still an available domain.