- A Taiwanese participant sought connections to DIYbio practitioners in Taipei, underscoring the early emergence of grassroots biohacking communities in East Asia.  
- kanzure circulated the “Biohacking Workshop” at Labitat in Copenhagen (http://studiolabproject.eu/event/biohacking-workshop-labitat-copenhagen) as a model for similar events worldwide.  
- George Church’s DNA-storage milestone—700 TB encoded in one gram of DNA—was debated; links to the Science paper (http://db.tt/ZDoDJZeD) and its supplement (http://db.tt/elIqsy72) were shared, with participants split between awe and skepticism about practical timelines and error rates.  
- The Internet Archive’s adoption of PhantomJS and the new open-source tool “fantomas” (https://github.com/davidrapin/fantomas) was highlighted as a method for automated web-page QA and dependency discovery, relevant to long-term digital preservation.  
- Anecdotal time-perception experiments were discussed, including an 8-year-old’s memorization of clock-tick rates that later revealed a 1.3× subjective-second dilation, prompting speculation on neural timing mechanisms.  
- Technical troubleshooting for extracting video from obfuscated Flash sites covered open-source tools such as youtube-dl, quvi, get-flash-videos, rtmpdump, Wireshark, Chromium Inspector, and swfmill, with emphasis on writing new Lua, Perl, or Python site-specific scripts to keep pace with evolving streaming protocols.