- A Yahoo! Answers post asking “What equipment do I need to do genetic engineering at home?” was shared and mocked; nmz787 answered it, prompting debate about whether such forums should be engaged at all.  
- nmz787 captured two baby house mice in his living room, began feeding them Walmart French bread and corn chips, and considered taking them to a vet to rule out hantavirus-carrying deer mice—sparking jokes about using them as free test subjects or snake food.  
- Lucas_ dropped a link to an IEET article by B. J. Stoel on “Mormon Transhumanism and the New God Argument,” initiating brief discussion of the Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA).  
- kanzure and others criticized MTA and canonizer.com (a Brent Allsop project that averages opinions to reach “truth”) as misguided; Lincoln Cannon’s frequent e-mails to kanzure were also lamented.  
- TheEmpath posted an image (http://www.ghetmedia.com/download/STEL.png) illustrating how emotional context drives linguistic context, prompting curiosity about the underlying model.  
- kanzure highlighted two cloud CAD/PLM services—teamplatform.com and 3dfile.io—for their unusually broad support of proprietary formats (e.g., SolidWorks .sldprt/.sldasm) via Windows-based rendering backends.  
- Foucist linked the infamous “How is babby formed?” Yahoo! Answers meme as tongue-in-cheek evidence that “all transhumanists” start there.  
- A brief side-thread noted that Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm technically makes Princess Leia a Disney princess.