- A high-resolution scan of Eric Drexler’s technical treatise “Nanosystems” is now circulating in the community, supplementing an earlier low-resolution e-book version; participants noted the absence of the more popular “Engines of Creation” in their collections.  
- The channel’s paperbot delivered open-access copies of two Springer articles on demand: one on focal-adhesion-kinase signaling in cancer and another on a chapter from an advanced bioengineering volume.  
- superkuh highlighted a newly published ACM paper, “Instant inkjet circuits,” describing a bench-top inkjet-printing method for rapidly prototyping ubiquitous-computing hardware.  
- Discussion briefly turned to corporate ownership of open-source infrastructure when kanzure realized that Dice Holdings had acquired SourceForge, prompting concern about platform governance.  
- justanotheruser linked to a rare public comment by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim on his original 2005 “Me at the zoo” video, using it as a touchpoint for broader frustration with Google’s service policies.