- Augmented Human 2012 conference (Megeve, France) was announced at http://www.augmented-human.com/; participants noted unfamiliarity with most listed speakers and joked that skiing accidents might accelerate prosthetic R&D.  
- A “paper rental service” was proposed as a possible analogue to the first-sale doctrine that lets movie-rental companies legally distribute copyrighted DVDs.  
- A Python script for bypassing EZproxy paywalls was shared: https://bitbucket.org/dgc/py-ezproxy/src/26fc9ec4c52a/EZproxy.py.  
- LiveReload (http://livereload.com/)—a tool that pushes CSS/JS changes to browsers instantly—was highlighted on Hacker News as a rapid-prototyping aid for web developers.  
- Two additional live-coding / remote-debugging utilities were circulated: fredit (https://github.com/danchoi/fredit) and Weinre (http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/).  
- superkuh described a concept for augmented-reality glasses that display full Stokes parameters (I, Q, U, V) of incoming light as layered, color-coded transparencies for real-time spectropolarimetry.  
- Discussion of why “long reads” are hard in DNA sequencing cited label error rates and multiple technical factors (details were deferred to #bioinfo).