- Bunnie Huang’s free book “Hacking the Xbox” was highlighted as a valuable hardware-hacking resource, including his technique for tapping the Xbox bus to extract secret keys from the Southbridge chip.  
- DIYbio activity in the San Francisco Bay Area was mapped: recommended stops for a visitor include the East Bay DIYbio group, BioCurious, Transcriptic/Max Hodak, and DNA-synthesizer vendor Joe Kaufman (joe@joekaufman.net, 408-964-0015).  
- The “lab automation” meetup in the East Bay meets Sunday mornings 10 AM–2/3 PM; the upcoming session will install stepper motors on a gantry frame for a RepRap-derived liquid-handling robot that swaps the extruder for a syringe pump.  
- Paperbot was repeatedly used to attempt retrieval of paywalled articles (e.g., a 1992 microprocessor-testing paper and a SpringerLink PDF); failures were logged as raw HTML dumps when no translator existed.  
- A Hebrew paragraph describing the DIYbio movement (“to make biology accessible to the public, parallel to the computer revolution… e.g., glowing plants, novel DNA structures for energy, self-injection of engineered bacteria for strength”) was shared and discussed.