- Open Science Summit 2012 Kickstarter campaign was shared (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openscience/open-science-summit-2012) as a follow-up to the earlier successful BioCurious campaign.  
- Discussion of systemic failure in U.S. forensic science: every accredited forensics lab audited by the government reportedly failed, and most labs lack any accreditation at all.  
- Anders Sandberg’s new essay “What innovations ought we aim for?” (http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2012/08/what_innovations_ought_we_aim_for.html) was highlighted as a departure from his recent focus on “artificial super-hitler” existential-risk scenarios.  
- Practical DIY note: a user asked whether damaged 1980s Lafayette muscle-stimulation electrodes for frog experiments can be repaired with burn-and-tin soldering.  
- Fritzing (http://fritzing.org/)—an open-source PCB design and documentation tool—was introduced to the channel as a potentially useful resource for hardware projects.  
- TX/RX Hackerspace in Houston announced it had secured a new, larger space.  
- Tmux configuration tip shared: `set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'` enables normal scrolling inside tmux sessions.