_why opened up the Hackety Blog, apparently shutting down his redhanded blog. So far, he’s taken a look at a handful of potential programming as education tools. I’m glad that talented programmers are evaluating education tools. We have a little boy due this August, so programming as education is on my mind.
In other news, Ian came up with a good first olpc-chicago project.

It might be worth looking at:
http://code.google.com/p/zvm/
A python implementation of a ‘Z-machine’, a virtual machine which executes interactive fiction stories.
Written in Python.