- A Nature Materials paper (DOI: 10.1038/nmat3357) and accompanying press releases from UPenn and ScienceNOW describe the first 3-D printed vascular networks made from dissolvable sugar, enabling living tissues to be perfused; the work was performed on a RepRap-class printer, underscoring the value of open-source hardware in cutting-edge bioengineering.  
- kanzure released and refined “pokecrystal,” a fully disassembled and buildable source-code version of Pokémon Crystal, fixing build-system path issues in the extras/romstr.py script; the project is hosted at https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal.  
- A short YouTube demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFJLl5Ee2w) shows a RepRap-derived CNC conversion of a Tecan liquid-handling robot (“TecRap”), illustrating grassroots automation of laboratory equipment.  
- Discussion of the Pirate Party’s white-paper proposing an alternative to pharmaceutical patents—state prizes and competitive generic manufacturing—was circulated via Christian Engström’s blog as a policy route to lower drug costs and accelerate innovation.  
- Participants voiced frustration over “Ethical Technology” and related H+ blogs repeatedly reposting mystical reincarnation content instead of rigorous treatments of resimulation, Boltzmann brains, or other physically grounded concepts, warning that such material harms the movement’s credibility.  
- DIYbio logistical gaps were highlighted when a Seattle newcomer offering surplus lab gear found no local biologists left to receive it, illustrating the fragility of regional biohacker networks.  
- Links of interest included a behavioral-genetics post on heritability (GNXP blog), Vinay Gupta’s recent P2P infrastructure-theory videos, a tongue-in-cheek list of “top 10 human enhancements,” micro-machines for in-body drug manufacture, and a guide to watching the Gundam metaseries chronologically.