- The open-source EEG project “emokit” (https://github.com/openyou/emokit) is seeking new maintainers, signaling a potential gap in low-cost, hackable brain-computer-interface tooling.  
- A Europe trip is being planned; high-priority visits under consideration include eleitl, Anders Sandberg, and Eric Drexler, contingent on having “working DNA things” to show Drexler.  
- The W3C Automotive Data Specification snapshot (https://rawgit.com/w3c/automotive-bg/master/snapshots/data_spec_snapshot_latest.html) was criticized for ignoring MCU constraints and for sloppy unit definitions (e.g., “litter” vs. “liter”).  
- Peter Norvig’s upcoming Quora AMA (https://www.quora.com/session/Peter-Norvig/1) was noted as a forthcoming opportunity to engage a leading AI researcher.  
- TMSU, a command-line file-tagging tool with a FUSE virtual filesystem (http://tmsu.org/), was shared as a lightweight way to add semantic metadata to personal data stores.  
- Documentary links: “Inside Nature’s Giants – The Giant Squid” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=088bhv3pjq0&t=49m34s) and the Ulam prime spiral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral) were briefly highlighted for their visual and mathematical interest.