- A user requested access to a paywalled paper on brain electrodes (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1081/JBC-120020349) and was directed to kanzure’s open paper mirror at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/implants/ which hosts hundreds of neuro-implant PDFs.  
- kanzure publicly released personal backups of the NanoEngineer-1 molecular CAD installer after the official site went down, posting versioned snapshots to http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/nanoengineer/snapshots/ so university teams could continue senior-design projects.  
- The diyhpl.us paper repository was reorganized on the fly: misplaced files on dendritic integration, hippocampal plasticity, and neocortical columns were relocated into neuro/ subdirectories, and kanzure invited contributors to commit reading notes to the diyhpluswiki.git.  
- Discussion of the upcoming Open Science Summit 2012 emphasized the value of same-day transcripts; kanzure pointed to previous years’ transcripts (2010 & 2011) at http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/ and urged attendees to keep the chain unbroken.  
- A brief debate noted that while many “video-to-text” startups exist, none deliver reliable automated transcripts for conferences, and that microfluidics companies often survive by raising tens of millions in VC rather than by product revenue.