- A tongue-in-cheek “overclocking” concept proposed using shape-memory Nitinol dreadlocks that straighten when the scalp heats up, increasing passive heat dissipation from the brain.

- The open-source NanoEngineer CAD package is being revived on GitHub; contributors debugged an OpenGL “invalid enum” error inside a VirtualBox VM, sharing fixes such as disabling 3-D acceleration and cleaning UTF-8 BOM artifacts.

- McGraw-Hill narrated biology Flash animations hosted on diybio4beginners.blogspot.com were recommended as beginner-level DIYbio learning material.

- Glenn Beck’s latest book reportedly contains a pro-transhumanism chapter; a LessWrong thread (http://lesswrong.com/lw/d1b/glenn_beck_discusses_the_singularity_cites_si/) was linked to document the discussion.

- The YouTube web series “H+ The Digital Series” was criticized for its dystopian “technology ruins everything” narrative, though some participants still found the pilot episodes intriguing.

- A member is seeking machine-shop access in Austin, TX to build a DIY laser CNC; the ATX Hackerspace and ATX Dev Center were mentioned as having limited tooling, highlighting the hardware-access bottleneck for open-source projects.

- PyPhantomJS, a Python binding for the headless WebKit browser PhantomJS, is under active development by kanzure; technical guidance on QWebElement selectors and CLI argument handling was shared, with an open call for pull requests.

- Genewiz.com was discussed as a potential employer and praised for its primer/sequencing services, illustrating the channel’s informal bio-focused job networking.

- Liquidation.com was suggested as a new source to scrape for surplus iPads and other hardware, expanding the community’s ongoing effort to aggregate auction sites for cheap lab equipment.