- Alex Peake presented at the 2011 Open Science Summit on using Unity3D as a platform for teaching children to code, with video of the talk posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WIbIeBon3WI#t=530.  
- Open CASCADE announced a new contributor portal (http://dev.opencascade.org) and plans to migrate its CAD kernel from SVN to Git while integrating the community-driven OCE fork.  
- A participant asked for pointers on where to obtain BioBrick standard biological parts, highlighting continuing grassroots interest in open-source synthetic biology.  
- Discussion referenced a Daily WTF article about “client-side PHP,” underscoring perennial concerns over poor software practices and fragmented version-control across multiple servers.  
- An xkcd comic on cryogenics (http://xkcd.com/989/) was shared, reflecting the channel’s ongoing fascination with life-extension and preservation technologies.