Some related info... as of April 2012 the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission decided to open up street hails and beginning in July issuing 6000 permits to existing vehicles. Eventually, 18000 such TLC permits will be extended to for hire vehicles.

It's currently tied up in a lawsuit, and permits are not being issued, but expect it to go into effect and some of the 40k+ for-hire vehicles will be able to legally take street hails.

I wouldn't make much of that. It doesn't differ much for Washington, D.C..

I've already solved the Netflix disc problem (and the scratched disc problem... I have kids)
with HBC and USBLoaderGX. The USBLoaderGX channel made it easy for the rest of
the family.

The question I have, and can't find answered anywhere, is will the Wii disc version
continue to work?

Yes, but the thought of grinding skills for hours on end on a MUD doesn't seem quite
as entertaining now that I don't have a thesis to write :)

I'll never forget writing elaborate tinyfugue scripts to grind skills and finally being newted
by Ogma when he noticed that my character gave the same ack on his entry (random, but
it kept track of who entered and didn't re-ack unless a few minutes had passed).

I can't be the only one here who scraped together the registration for VGAP3,
a turn-based multiplayer space conquest/economy game. I used to play by email
and upload turns via BBS door. Probably cost me a few points on my GPA
(both VGAP and DartMUD...).

Nice to see it still exists http://www.vgaplanets.com/

Stop; don't do it. Your love of programming doesn't automatically make you a good teacher and layering inexperience on the ingrained patterns of behaviour between brothers will be a problem. Next assess if you want him to learn or if he wants to learn. If it's the first, consider that strike three.

Now, assuming he actually wants to learn and approached you for advice, start him with something fun like Bootstrap, http://www.bootstrapworld.org/, based on Scheme, or Scratch, http://scratch.mit.edu/Smalltalk, based on Smalltalk. He'll learn fundamentals in a well-designed language and have a community of educators and students to interact with.

The point is that it's not an operating system or a text editor. It is, paraphrasing Alan Kay, a construction material, designed for building things that work with text.