[jacquesm]

Plenty of people here are very interested in 'non conventional computing', in fact I've learned more about this from the people here than from any other source on the web.

Here are some searches that you could try:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+p...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+c...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+c...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+f...