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For a nice study of how this law extends to online peer production communities, see https://mako.cc/academic/shaw_hill-laboratories_of_oligarchy...

There's a somewhat relevant concept in Seymour Papert's book Mindstorms. Papert talks about "body-syntonicity" where the act of drawing a circle on the computer screen with LOGO ca…

Computers and the World of the Future ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-world-future ) is a highly recommended read. It's not a "history" text per-se, but rather, it i…

> except that keyboard layouts and input (esp. on mobile devices) is an even bigger mess and even more fragmented than character encoding. Encoding was in a similar place 10-15 yea…

> Is Bengali your first language? Yes. > [...] it's rather confusing mental acrobatics, and it doesn't reflect either how the writing system is taught, or how native speakers use i…

> The Bengali fonts that you have installed happen to render it as a jophola It's not only the Bengali font - the text rendering framework of my operating system also needs to have…

Not sure if the l33tspeak analogy is fully justified. In case of the "missing" letter (called khanda-ta in Bengali) for the Bengali equivalent of "suddenly", historically, it has b…

You should take a look at the ScratchEd community - they have a lot of resources for educators: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/ Also, we have started to build a Scratch Extension…

Almost there with SSL - we will be rolling it out for testing by the community in the next month, and we hope to get the entire site SSL only by summer 2015. Sorry it took so long.…

(Member of the Scratch team here) 1) There's a super useful Scratch Curriculum guide - made by the folks from ScratchEd. http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/resources/scratch-curricul…

Cynthia Solomon (the co-author of the memo) maintains a collection of interesting documents and videos from and on the early days of Logo: http://logothings.wikispaces.com/ (especi…

An Android version is planned for later.

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We have a work-in-progress HTML5 version as well: https://github.com/LLK/scratch-html5