Guess who's back…back again… MIT has announce App Inventor 2.  This is a web based Scratch like dev tool for making Android Apps and then  sharing them with others. Share Apps..yes..amazingly Android has shattered the myth that AppleFud spins about gatekeepers and code.  If yo ever wanted to jump into making apps then this the place to start. 
Code.org and the Computing in the Core coalition are coming together to provide an array of “Hour of Code” activities for this year’s Computer Science Education Week taking place on December 9 – 15, 2013. We are pleased to be offering new tutorials in the form of short, user-friendly videos that …
Tonight we played 12 Days, a clever holiday card game from the mind of +James Ernest . The kids loved it. My oldest boy there is aiming to be a game dev so playing and dissecting games from Mr Ernest is always a pleasure for me as they make great teaching tools . Many of his games have two, if not more, game mechanics/goals in play; winning means learning the pay off/balance between them. 12 Days has elements of trick taking and set collecting game. You can find his works over at http://cheapass.com/. You can also find a fun review of this over at +Wil Wheaton 's Table Top video feed Qwirkle and 12 Days: Kelly Hu, Meredith Salenger, and Nolan Kopp join Wil on TableTop SE2E16
And so it starts…Yoda and a Creeper are the start of our decorationathon. 
Whitey no longer the only one on the moon…GSH reviso. 
A little after 8:00 am Eastern Time today, China’s Chang’e 3 became the first object to make a soft landing on the surface of the Moon since 1976.
No love for the falling bis of matter tonight…clouds as far as the eye can scan. Maybe tomorrow night. #Geminids 
