actually, *cough*, not many people lived to be old aged in medieval Europe.

I totally disagree on skipping math for logic. Not that logic isn't important but Discrete math is very important for general problem solving involving countable sets. It's essential, so you got to at least take that course. And when it comes to "selected math chapters"; a firm understanding of those topics, is really useful, but if you want to take more math later, a course on Real Analysis and a course on Linear Algebra should cover those topics that were provided, and a lot of other useful stuff, and it might give you a better understanding.

An instant after I had written this I regretted doing so, because I suddenly remembered the old wise words of Why the lucky stiff... Teaching programming should be easy, fun, in collaboration with other kids, done on the child's terms and not be about how a computer works. I wholeheartedly hope you teach the kid ruby with hackety hack. Because it's all of the above and done in a language the is all about readability and doesn't have the "first you have to do like this and then that" that many other languages have. Take C or Java, you'll either have to wade through a lot information or you have to just leave a blank at many questions like: "why do I have to write include stdio?", "what is this int main()?", "why do I have to write public?", "what is an int?" or even "what is a compiler?" or "what is a textfile?" In ruby you might jump those initial questions in a couple of sentences for instances like this: "I'm going to teach you many different ways of hacking, but we are going to start here with this program called irb, and do the first steps. Now in this program type puts "hello world", which puts "hello world" on the screen..."

chrome has rss support through an extension.

gun battles aren't the only thing happening....

I would guess that at an early age you should appeal to their interests, if he is into "web2.0", social networking and that kind of stuff I would guess ruby and lead him towards ruby on rails later on, nice loving language, powerful framework.

If he like games, python and eventually teach pygame or pyglet. Maybe you'll put competing together in PyWeek as a goal.

If none of the above applies but he have a general interest in computers, Haskell is just a jawdroppingly beautiful language. Functional and typed. I just love it. Graham Hutton: Programming in Haskell is a great book for learning Haskell, and if your looking for an online resource there is always Learn You a Haskell For Great Good

Does anyone know what kind of legal action plurk can take? they claim copyright of their content, but does that cover code? and since this is in China who knows what kind of rights plurk has...

It doesn't seem like this does something "patchable," it seems like Linux is working as expected, you download the file, you get prompted for security elevation when executed (if that is automatic then the problem is probably somewhere else like the browser), and the program does it's thing. If it doesn't work in SELinux its probably because SELinux would recover some extra manual overriding of configuration that Linux doesn't require by design. However it sounded to me like it does something it's not suppose to be able to, when issuing it's auto start. But let's face it, if you allow a problem to it is supposed to be able to do almost anything...

I think that two companies competing for consumers can only be good for consumers since the alternative is monopoly, where one company sells to the majority of consumers (like Microsoft has done for years and that didn't bring us anything good, I mean their OS costs a lot compared to some alternatives). So I believe that the conclusion of this article is all backwards. Let's say that Google bombards their users with ads and premium service as the article suggests, everyone would flock to bing. And when other OS alternatives start gaining popularity and therefor support, we would probably see Microsoft lowering their prices and cleaning up their act.

I don't know about you, but I can't seem to find any downloads unless I go to the specific site where they have it, you can't even get new membership it seems... Seems to me that google has packed up the product and is looking to move it elsewhere, maybe incorporate it in their own software perhaps? and the fact that you can't download linux version from http://www.gizmo5.com/download.php , seems to me to be more of a bug then a "kill the penguins" act, although I guess most of the posts here is going to assume so...