- A link to the Castro Lab at Drexel (http://neurobio.drexelmed.edu/castroweb/castro.html) was shared as an example of a “nice webpage” for neuroscience resources.  
- Discussion referenced Bruce Klein’s embezzlement from the Singularity Institute and linked to a news article about his sentencing (http://blog.al.com/live/2012/08/silverhill_man_gets_time_serve.html).  
- Participants criticized the Singularity Institute / LessWrong ecosystem, citing the “Applied Rationality” workshop site (http://appliedrationality.org/) as emblematic of self-congratulatory culture rather than substantive output.  
- The paper “Sequencing the Connectome” (Zador et al., PLoS Biology) was highlighted as a key read for understanding high-throughput approaches to neural circuit mapping.  
- A request was made for the paper “Staining and embedding the whole mouse brain for electron microscopy,” indicating ongoing interest in whole-brain EM protocols.  
- Technical troubleshooting: Nature Methods links were returning HTTP 401 errors with wget but worked with curl, illustrating paywall and user-agent issues encountered when scraping academic content.  
- The Adapteva Kickstarter for a many-core parallel processor architecture was noted as an interesting hardware development relevant to compute-intensive neuro- or AI projects.  
- A large public dataset dump of human motion-capture data was discovered at Rutgers (http://www.cbim.rutgers.edu/dmdocuments/) and CMU (http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/papers/), with commentary that the field has shifted from biomechanical modeling to pure motion tracking.  
- Interest was expressed in obtaining the paper “An embodied approach to arthropod animation,” reflecting a side thread on dynamic motion synthesis and robotics animation techniques.  
- nmz787 reported securing a new workspace near Portland—a ranch house pre-wired with Ethernet and fiber—and invited local members to help unload a 6 × 12 ft trailer of lab and living supplies.