• The Metabody Conference Series 1 on “Metahuman/Metaformance Studies 2013” was announced (http://www.metabody.eu/) as an academic gathering exploring post-human performance and embodiment.

• OSU Open Source Lab (OSL) was highlighted as a stable hosting option for open-source projects losing download services; projects like PhantomJS (~500 k downloads) and OpenSCAD (popular in RepRap) were cited as candidates needing new infrastructure after Google Code and GitHub deprecated downloads.

• A basic tDCS (trans-cranial direct-current stimulation) build guide was shared from Instructables (http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Human-Enhancement-Device-Basic-tDCS-Suppl/?ALLSTEPS), prompting debate over Instructables’ multi-page ad-heavy layout versus cleaner wiki-based documentation.

• Cambrian Genomics, a DNA laser-printing startup, received press coverage on Motherboard/Vice; participants noted the company’s self-branding as “bio-hacking” and the article’s reliance on an embedded Google Solve for X video.

• Paperbot’s open-access scraping workflow was discussed: current reliance on Zotero translators, ad-hoc XPath parsers, and the need for fallback proxies or sci-hub integration; participants proposed refactoring the bot into a plugin architecture and adding a raw-HTML dump command to ease development of new publisher parsers.

• Bitcoin anecdotes surfaced: a participant rediscovered ~$600 worth of coins earned at $4 each, while the channel reflected on early OTC trading logs from 2011 involving physicist Garrett Lisi.

• GitHub pull-request culture was critiqued for micro-pedantry—trivial spelling, commit-message, and formatting fixes create disproportionate friction when only the original author can update a PR.