# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Dec 18, 2010)

• An article in the New York Times titled "Turning Geek into Chic" covered DIYbio activities, mentioning Joseph Jackson as an "entrepreneur, transhumanist and citizen scientist" who raised over $35,000 on Kickstarter, and included references to Quantified Self and DIYbio groups in Bangalore, Seattle, and Paris.

• Nick Bostrom's latest book on the ethics of human enhancement was mentioned: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199594961/

• Nature published an article titled "The rise of the genome bloggers" discussing how hobbyists are adding depth to ancestry research: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/468880a.html

• A post-publication peer review tool called Annotatr was shared (http://annotatr.appspot.com/citeulike/article/8018468), designed to facilitate scientific paper annotation and discussion.

• A Facebook visualization of global friendship connections was shared, showing geographic patterns of social connections and revealing areas where Facebook has limited penetration: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919

• Skeinosaur, a tool for 3D printing related to knitting, was mentioned: https://github.com/timschmidt/skeinosaur

• A brief philosophical discussion occurred about the frustration of being limited to human bodies, with one user asking "why aren't we uploads yet" and noting that "being stuck in a human body is torture."