• SpaceX’s Interplanetary Transport System is being architected for destinations well beyond Mars, expanding the scope of human settlement beyond the inner solar system.  
• The diyhpluswiki repository (https://github.com/kanzure/diyhpluswiki) serves as the canonical open-source knowledge base for DIY transhumanist projects; its temporary git:// outage was mitigated by the GitHub HTTPS mirror.  
• Synthetic biology and CRISPR work are increasingly framed as “making biology more like programming,” as highlighted in a 2016-09-08 log segment now linkable via new irclog2html anchors (http://gnusha.org/logs/html/2016-09-08.log.html#t19:11-111).  
• A used Fuji Dimatix inkjet printer (1 pL droplets, 1 µm repeatability, 30 mm substrate thickness) surfaced on eBay for ~US $99 k—ideal for hybrid circuits and multichip modules.  
• Microsoft Research open-sourced a lattice-based, quantum-resistant public-key cryptography library (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/lattice-cryptography-library/) that compiles and runs on Linux.  
• A new paper (arXiv:1609.03543) and its n-Category Café discussion explore category-theoretic approaches to reasoning under logical uncertainty.  
• The complete Strange Loop 2016 video playlist is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4rT0lgJr6U&list=PLcGKfGEEONaDvuLDFFKRfzbsaBuVVXdYa for tracking advances in programming languages and systems.  
• MIT researchers demonstrated a computational-imaging technique that can read closed books without opening them, as reported on 2016-09-09.  
• When converting PostScript to G-code via `pstoedit`, dimensional units are silently dropped (72 dpi pixel assumption); users must compensate to preserve CNC or 3-D-printing precision.