- The channel’s topic was updated to “HPlus – Ideas worth developing – reprap, oss hardware, diybio | http://gnusha.org/logs/”, restoring a permanent link to the public IRC logs that members read daily.  
- AlonzoTG reported running a MediaWiki instance on an Athlon 800 with the SQL back-end on a separate desktop and announced plans to restart a “transhumanist paradigms” wiki project.  
- JayDugger proposed a New-Year security habit: change all passwords, and offered an extensive list of additional self-improvement resolutions in exchange for a $0.02 (≈ 0.004 BTC) donation.  
- Delinquentme shared Michael Anissimov’s blog (http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/) and described listening to an audio talk hosted there.  
- Mokbortolan_ linked a YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfNByi-rrO4) without further context.  
- A brief discussion contrasted H. P. Lovecraft’s “maltheistic” fiction—emphasizing human inconsequentiality—with transhumanist aspirations of human enhancement and agency.  
- Kanzure posted an anecdote about trying to convince a friend that TiVo cannot fast-forward live television, illustrating common misconceptions about time-shifting technology.