- **Window-management research**: Participants compared spatial-memory-heavy “zooming” desktops inspired by conformal mapping with keyboard-driven tiling managers like xmonad, demonstrating live golden-ratio spiral layouts and searchable window labels as a way to reduce cognitive load when juggling dozens of open documents.

- **Scriptable web-dev tooling**: kanzure released a minimal CLI WebKit inspector (gist.github.com/4358293) that exposes page state through stdin/stdout, aiming to eliminate GUI dependency and make browser automation more Unix-like.

- **Browser remote-debugging landscape**: The group contrasted WebKit’s unified remote-debugging protocol (shared by Chrome, Safari, PhantomJS, Android) with Mozilla’s still-fragmented Remote Debugging Protocol, linking to the respective specification pages for reference.

- **Open bookmarking & data longevity**: After lamenting the demise of Delicious, participants evaluated Pinboard.in, XBEL export, and Firefox’s native JSON bookmark format, while brainstorming lightweight JSON tab-sets as versionable “to-read” queues and questioning why bookmarks were never bulk-shared over Usenet like binaries.

- **Immersive 3-D desktop concept**: fenn proposed a “non-Euclidean desktop” rendered on arbitrary manifolds, inspired by conformal-mapping visualizations and the “Curved Spaces” geometry simulator, arguing that immersive 3-D could surpass flat tiling for large-scale window management.

- **Biohacking on the ground**: A report from the informal “xff” meet-up noted that grinder icon Steve Haworth was offering magnetic-implant services on-site, sparking real-time speculation about who would volunteer.

- **Client-side image-processing hacks**: Users explored inserting a proxy (Squid/Polipo) or client-side <canvas> sampling to auto-invert web images whose backgrounds are mostly white, balancing server-side convenience against browser performance.

- **Nutrition & cognition link**: A 2008 review paper on declining trace-mineral density in the U.S. food supply (http://www.mineralresourcesint.com/docs/research/NutritionandMentalHealth.pdf) was circulated as evidence for supplementing minerals—such as those from Dead Sea salts—to support cognitive health.