I just finished listening to What Would Google Do? It was okay. I think the book was really about what Jeff Jarvis would do. For instance, he argued very strongly for some things that he admitted Google doesn't do. In general, I think he gets a lot of stuff right, but he also overstates some things, and he even gets some things wrong. If you really want to understand Google's ethos, I think In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives is more on target.
In his keynote at PyCon, Eben Upton, the Executive Director of the Rasberry Pi Foundation, mentioned that not only has Minecraft been ported to the Rasberry Pi, but you can even control it with Python . Since four of my kids are avid Minecraft fans, I figured this might be a good time to teach them to program using Python. So I started yesterday with the goal of programming something cool for Minecraft and then showing it off at the San Francisco Python Meetup in the evening. The first problem that I faced was that I didn't have a Rasberry Pi. You can't hack Minecraft by just installing the Minecraft client. Speaking of which, I didn't have the Minecraft client installed either ;) My kids always play it on their Nexus 7s. I found an open source Minecraft server called Bukkit that "provides the means to extend the popular Minecraft multiplayer server." Then I found a plugin called RaspberryJuice that implements a subset of the Minecraft Pi modding API for B
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