- A newly mirrored astrophysics paper (arXiv:1304.6780v1) on source-code sharing practices illustrates how open-science norms in hard sciences can serve as a model for transhumanist and biohacker communities.  
- Repeated HTTP-500 failures of the DIY paperbot on Springer and J-STAGE paywalls led to manual SSH/SCP work-arounds and plans for a Flask-based upload server that lets users with institutional access feed the bot.  
- Shell access was obtained on an Ion Torrent Proton sequencing server, prompting discussion of rootkit techniques and highlighting ongoing reverse-engineering of commercial bio-hardware.  
- Debate over the scarcity of rigorous hard-science fiction that incorporates relativistic travel, brain emulation, cryonics, and longevity without FTL or lazy tropes revealed an unpublished archive of “realistic” story fragments maintained by one participant.  
- Cryonics physics discussion covered the Cells Alive System (magnetic-field vibration to suppress ice nucleation), high-pressure phase-change vitrification up to 200 MPa, and the observation that mainstream vitrification of sperm and cell lines is already reversible.  
- Google Glass was confirmed to run Android 4.0.4 with a custom launcher; adb framebuffer capture was outlined as a method for taking screenshots, and a broken unit was photographed.  
- Extropy-chat mailing-list archives from the 1990s (extropians.weidai.com) were linked as a historical resource for early transhumanist discourse.  
- Alibaba and Guangzhou vendors were identified as sources for low-cost nanodrop spectrophotometers (~US$6 k) and gradient thermocyclers (~US$2 k), with group-buy logistics via Singapore contacts being explored for U.S. labs.