# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Logs (Feb 25-26, 2012)

• An upcoming MIT Media Lab presentation by Jennifer Lewis on "Printing Functional Materials" was highlighted, focusing on advanced 3D printing technologies for functional applications.

• Participants discussed a BBC documentary on synthetic biology featuring the "spider goat" - a genetically modified organism that produces spider silk proteins in its milk, demonstrating practical applications of genetic engineering.

• Kanzure explored detailed protein engineering concepts, specifically examining how elongation factors (EF-Tu) function in ribosomes, with the goal of adapting similar mechanisms for nucleotide binding enzymes.

• Users critiqued DeepDyve's scholarly article rental service, questioning its business model of charging for temporary, read-only access to papers without download or print capabilities.

• A resource for visualizing metabolic pathways in E. coli was shared, demonstrating tools for mapping biochemical processes within organisms.

• An innovative window manager design concept was discussed where applications would maintain utility graphs representing the value of different screen dimension allocations, with considerations for optimization problems and potential gaming of the system.

• Gwern's article "Death Note Anonymity" (http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity) was shared, likely analyzing privacy, identity concealment, and digital forensics principles through the lens of the popular manga/anime series.