- David Zindell’s 1988 novel *Neverness* was recommended as a key transhumanist text; full text is available at http://heybryan.org/docs/Zindell,%20David%20-%20Neverness%20(v1.0).txt.  
- Bloomberg’s Professional Terminal backend was revealed to run ~20 million lines of server-side JavaScript (SpiderMonkey-based) since 2005, plus Lua-scripted GUI toolkits and a custom WebKit fork, making it one of the largest production JS codebases.  
- A Vice Motherboard article on DIY cyborgs (http://www.vice.com/motherboard/diy-cyborg) sparked discussion about how the Circadia implantable device was bioproofed for subdermal use.  
- An Indiegogo campaign for low-cost thin-layer chromatography (TLC) drug-checking kits (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/substance-analysis-kits-down-with-adulterants) was shared as a harm-reduction tool aligned with open-source biohacking.  
- Paperbot successfully retrieved two requested papers: the original ACM Mersenne Twister PRNG paper and the *Science* article “Parameter Space Compression Underlies Emergent Theories and Predictive Models.”