The day I lost a child on the Tube

From the Teacher Network Blog on The Guardian:

Twenty years ago our blogger lost one of his pupils on the London Underground and didn’t even report the incident to the child’s mother or his headteacher… fast forward to the present day and it’s a very different story

A little old in Internet-time, but I just got around to reading it, and it’s a fun read with a very insightful conclusion that’s not “OMG look at kids and parents nowadays ughhhh”.

When I first read the title, though, I thought it was “the day I lost a child on YouTube”. THE HORROR

New Yorker on Stanford and Silicon Valley

A long, detailed piece on Stanford’s history, its ties with the valley, and some interesting remarks by former president Gerhard Casper challenging some of Hennessy’s decisions. OLD CODGER FUZZIE VS. OLD CODGER (with boring textbook) TECHIE FIGHT

Paper drawings: Green Goblin, Iron Man

A couple more. Waiting for my new styluses (styli? steezes?) to arrive before I continue sketching, since the wife has commandeered mine for Draw Something.

Green Goblin

Iron Man

On the second drawing: man, Kirby crackle is _tough_ to do on Paper.

Vim adventures

An interactive web game to help you become familiar with Vim commands. Very nicely done!

I found it a little frustrating to get through because I know the basics, but the player is made to “unlock” commands such as w and b. Worse, the first “maze” you navigate with hjkl encourages you to mash those buttons (can’t put a number in front to repeat commands). That said, though, very fun and great production values. “YIPPEE”, as they say.

What Malaysia thinks of 50 Cent

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Source: Someone else’s Facebook account, copied from [this forum](http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2314554).

C’est la Z: Anyone can cook

Mike Zamansky on the recent spate of online programming education offerings, specifically the more “vocational” ones such as Codecademy:

‘The premise seems to be that anyone can code and that everyone should code. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I keep coming back to the question, “what’s the endgame?”‘

This post articulates the fear I’ve been having about trying to make programming more accessible to everyone: to what end? For users, is there any value in this knowledge? (Conversely, though, what’s the value in learning basic science and humanities for “users”, i.e. people existing in the physical world and society?)

Speaking of Paper

Just a few more: an angry Kryptonian, a stupid, stupid rat creature, and a crazed rocket-launching scientist bear.

Angry Kryptonian

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Bear

Drawings with Paper

Quite pleased with the app–much lighter than ArtStudio, with 1/5 as many tools and no layers, which means less time pondering _how to draw_ and more time _actually drawing_. I’m posting them to my [Tumblr](http://yjsoon.tumblr.com) account regularly, but I’ll bring show some over here every now and then:

Drawing