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Computer Science Unplugged is a series of learning activities that reveals a little-known secret: Computer Science isn't really about computers at all! CS Unplugged provides an extensive collection of free resources that teach principles of Computer Science such as binary numbers, algorithms and data compression through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.

.@mrcedward might like to relive the glory days of DOS...on a website http://stopwilson.com/ I started with >dir

A modern-day 4GB stick of RAM would have cost $32 billion in the 1950's. A 1TB drive would have cost $1 trillion. http://bit.ly/e9vK7j

The city of Guiyu is home to 5,500 businesses devoted to processing discarded electronics, known as e-waste. According to local websites, the region dismantles 1.5 million pounds of junked computers, cell phones and other devices a year.

A guide to engineering for high school girls.

This is a posting at Quora about what it's like to be a software engineer.

A good history of personal computers followed by what will happen in the future.

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production. » Free to download and open source » Interactive programs using 2D, 3D or PDF output » OpenGL integration for accelerated 3D » For GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows » Projects run online or as double-clickable applications » Over 100 libraries extend the software into sound, video, computer vision, and more... » Well documented, with many books available

Text editors, IDE, programming languages used by real programmers!

Why does UPS plan its routes to eliminate as many left turns as possible?  All kinds of ideas for a computer science problem.

New technology to replace cell phone towers.

Corona has the only complete solution for developing across platforms, OS versions, and screen sizes. You can write once and build to iOS or Android at the touch of a button, and Corona will automatically scale your content from phones to tablets.

iPhone and Android development on OSX or Windows. Thanks Daniel B.

Women in computing.

Small Basic a number of very interesting APIs built into it! 

Paul Baran developed the concept of packets.

Teacher blog about success teaching Python with a games approach. Links in blog to resources.

Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher.

A YouTube channel dedicated to folk dancing and sorting algorithms. The video above is a shell-sort with Hungarian folk dance.

Ever since I was told about a list of Movies for Computer Science Students and wrote some comments about that list I have been thinking book. Fiction books. Novels that tell stories that involve computer science and the sorts of issues of privacy, philosophy, ethics and social change that computers make in our society.