computer logic Building computer logic in the oddly addicting "NAND Game" Clive Thompson

Stephen Wolfram: computation is the universe's OS Ellsworth Toohey

Technology New book teaches coding to toddlers through screen-free activities using comics and everyday craft items Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

books Read an exclusive excerpt from "An Internet In Your Head: A New Paradigm For How The Brain Works " Thom Dunn

programming Rivers Cuomo of Weezer takes online Harvard coding courses, writes band software Clive Thompson

Games "Anarch", a new, public-domain Doom-like game coded from scratch in <256K Clive Thompson

Boing Boing Gadgets Tangiplay is the children's game so fun that kids don't realize they're learning to code Boing Boing's Shop

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

Podcast: Mathmatica creator Stephen Wolfram's favorite tools Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants The People's Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism Cory Doctorow

programming Free MIT video lecture series: Introduction to Python Mark Frauenfelder

Science Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" goes open-access Cory Doctorow

art On the once and future history of clouds Cory Doctorow

security Spoofing GPS is surprisingly easy; detecting it is surprisingly hard Cory Doctorow

tv Yet another new video format touted Rob Beschizza

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Business Network as though it was the first days of a better nation Martha Lane Fox