- The channel celebrated the successful landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars, sharing the first thumbnail tweeted by @MarsCuriosity and debating the merits of NASA’s “Eyes on the Solar System” Unity-based simulation versus raw 8 fps telemetry feeds; brownies provided a direct Akamai HLS URL (nasa-f.akamaihd.net/public_h264_700@54826) for VLC viewing.  
- kanzure migrated the old hplusroadmap MediaWiki to a temporary instance on diyhpl.us:5040 and invited selective porting of worthwhile pages—flagging the SKDB article as “crap that doesn’t work” while approving eudoxia’s rewritten SKDB entry on transhumani.com.  
- A new diyhpluswiki.git repository was created and populated with a curated list of global DIYbio groups, complete with contact e-mails for Los Angeles, Seattle, Manchester’s MadLab, and Munich.  
- Discussion of KSRM (Kernel Self-Replicating Machine) semantics: nmz787 proposed “a cell is a KSRM, but not all KSRMs are cells,” prompting kanzure to defend his earlier decision to mirror the entire KSRM text into the wiki.  
- Practical hardware threads included 3-D-printed screw threads (links to MakerBot/OpenSCAD libraries and elmom/MCAD on GitHub) and sourcing cheap robot ballast—concrete at $0.34 / lb beat lead shot at $1.47 / lb, with iron shot suggested as a denser alternative.  
- A brief aside on Elsevier’s “pay-to-read open-access” practices was highlighted from Peter Murray-Rust’s blog, underscoring ongoing frustration with academic publishing barriers.  
- Unity3D and Flash dominated the Kongregate game-upload ecosystem despite the availability of an HTML5/JS API, illustrating developer inertia and poor understanding of cross-origin policies.