- A discussion on sourcing modafinil without a prescription led to pointers to Chinese and Indian online pharmacies and the Bitcoin-accepting vendor btcnootropics.com, with Gwern’s supplier/pricing guide (gwern.net/Modafinil#suppliers-prices) offered as a reference.  
- Security links were shared covering a U.S. Department of Labor “watering-hole” attack pushing Poison Ivy via an IE8 zero-day, plus newly disclosed remote-code-execution bugs in the WordPress caching plugins WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache.  
- A brief technical exchange explored the limits of photon-wavelength imaging and whether electron-beam techniques used in microscopy could be extended to sub-photon-scale manufacturing, with electron-beam lithography cited as the existing industrial analog.  
- Interest in ultra-miniature robotics surfaced around a Stanford “robotx” quadrotor and the concept of pocket- or gun-launched folding drones, linked to the classic UC Berkeley “Smart Dust” project page.  
- Ray Kurzweil’s move to Google to “revolutionize search” was met with skepticism, described by participants as “rigorous hand-waving” and speculation that he will focus on deep-learning approaches.  
- Scott Adams’ claim that “in about five years, shit is gonna get real” for ubiquitous robots was dismissed as naïve, with a Willow Garage PR2 folding-clothes video offered as counter-evidence of current limitations.  
- Miscellaneous tools and resources mentioned include the HTTP request-inspection services requestb.in and httpbin.org, the Sinon.js JavaScript/XHR mocking library, and an East Bay DIYbio survey hosted on SurveyMonkey.