Did The Verge go down?Can anyone hit the site?[click-to-read-mo.re/p/4tS8](http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4tS8)

It’s delicious! Definitely try the salted caramel ice cream▼ Reshared Post From Kevin Elgan ▼Smitten Ice Cream is opening inside Wholefoods in Los Altos, Calif.In case you aren’t familiar with Smitten Ice Cream, the original location is in Hayes Valley, SF. All ice cream is made to order where they freeze it before your eyes.Apparently, the faster that ice cream freezes, the smaller the ice crystals making for a smoother texture. They also have seasonal flavors.4800 El Camino RealLos Altos, CAhttp://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4tLU

Holy Jumping Gigawatts: Tynker passes 4 million participants in your kids are interested in coding, Tynker has a fun introduction to sequencing and problem-solving through puzzles. www.tynker.com/hour-of-codewww.tynker.comhttp://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4tu5

Smitten Ice Cream is opening inside Wholefoods in Los Altos, Calif.In case you aren’t familiar with Smitten Ice Cream, the original location is in Hayes Valley, SF. All ice cream is made to order where they freeze it before your eyes.Apparently, the faster that ice cream freezes, the smaller the ice crystals making for a smoother texture. They also have seasonal flavors.4800 El Camino RealLos Altos, CAhttp://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4s1L

Google Zeitgeist 2013

Awesome! Looking forward to it.▼ Reshared Post From Mike Elgan ▼Join us on This Week In Google!TWiG Live: [live.twit.tv/On](http://live.twit.tv/On) today’s show: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Kevin Marks and me![click-to-read-mo.re/p/4rXa](http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4rXa)

Children’s Creativity Museum featured in SF Chronicle about getting kids to codeCCM educator Tomas Durkin was mentioned in the SF Chronicle regarding their participation in the ‘Hour of Code’. The museum ran hour-long coding sessions using Tynker.Tom also runs “Creative Coding” field trips using Tynker for schools all over the San Francisco Bay Area.Any parent or teacher that is interested in exposing their kids to programming, might want to venture down to the Creativity Museum.More info here: [www.sfgate.com/technolog…](http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Students-delve-into-programming-in-Hour-of-Code-5067101.phphttp://creativity.org/field-trips-at-ccm/creative-coding/http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4rVf)

Is this going a little too far? I’ll let you decide.http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4rii

What happens when a YouTube Viral Video invades a Tynker Coding Club?For the past couple months, students have been participating in an after-school club where they learn programming skills using Tynker. This final project from one of the students was inspired by the YouTube video “What does the Fox say?” [www.tynker.com/share](http://www.tynker.com/share?p=5286ac33d4aa3e4a4b00040cCheck) out the original video: Ylvis – The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) [Official music video HD][click-to-read-mo.re/p/4r6j](http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4r6j)

Happy birthday Ma!Happy birthday to one of the most amazing people in this world. Everyday I push myself to be more like you… Strong, confident and compassionate. You’ve taught me not to accept mediocrity and to break all barriers for what is possible. You are the glue that holds us all together and the three of us would be absolutely lost without you.I love you Mom. Amira Elgan @amira elganhttp://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4oqx

Google Maps team turns Santa Claus into a Sky DiverIn case you haven’t checked out Google’s Daily Christmas Doodles, they are pretty amazing. My favorite is free-falling Santa by Maps team where you have to catch falling presents while descending upon a map of your geographic location. Here we are in SF Bay area.http://santadive.withgoogle.com/http://www.google.com/santatracker/http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4ng9

Finally received notification for Nexus 5 camera updateUnfortunately, I have to wait for my phone to “charge sufficiently” before installing it.http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4nel

Over 2 Million participants code with Tynker and counting…Over 2 million participants in K-12 have spent their  with Tynker. Computer Science education week may be half over, but Tynker will keep our activities available for all to tynker with.Code.orghttp://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4n19

Gmail “suspicious email” messages started showing up for meAnyone else seeing this? Has this been the case or is it part of a new rollout?[click-to-read-mo.re/p/4n0e](http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4n0e)

Over 1 million participants have started programming with Tynker from CS Ed WeekWith CS education week in full swing, kids from around the world are taking their first step towards learning programming skills using +Tynker. Thanks for all the support! We’d love to see pictures so please share or tweet .[www.csedweek.org/learnhttp…](http://www.csedweek.org/learnhttp://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code#hourofcode)   ://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4lmF

Happy Computer Science Education Week!Do you believe children need a solid education in programming and computer science? Sign your name on this site and join a million others who have already done it. [csedweek.org/promoteIn](http://csedweek.org/promoteIn) related news, my son Kevin Elgan works for a company called Tynker, which created tutorials for Code.org to share with kids for the “Hour of Code” project. He told me that they’ve already had close to 600,000 participants using Tynker – the second highest number of users of any platform in the entire project!Learn more about all this via the links below. [www.prweb.com/releases/…](http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11391110.htmhttp://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/http://code.org)   ://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4kEL

One of my favorite people (my Dad), Mike Elgan, is joining my favorite podcast (netcast) network, TWiTNow I can listen to him during my daily commute! :)▼ Reshared Post From Mike Elgan ▼I’m joining TWiT!I’m joining TWiT as News Director and Lead Anchor of Tech News Today!I know, I know! I had a dream job that enabled me to live anywhere in the world. In truth, there aren’t many jobs that could keep me rooted in one spot. But if you’ve followed me for the past few years, you know I’m a huge, HUGE fan of TWiT as an editorial voice, an entertainment juggernaut and as an organization. I’m incredibly excited to work with Leo Laporte and TWiT CEO Lisa Kentzell, the TNT crew iyaz akhtar, Sarah Lane and Jason Howell and the entire TWiT family. So I officially report for duty January 2. In the meantime, I’m going to be moving to (or near) Petaluma and getting ready to join what is easily the coolest technology content creation team anywhere.http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4hL7

Happy birthday Nadj!Happy birthday to the most loving and joyful person that I have ever met. You’ve taught me to be so patient and really just enjoy life. The first time I saw you I said that I was going to marry you and now I can’t wait for that to happen.Thank you for making me a better person and thank you for being the best part of my day, every day. I love you so much![click-to-read-mo.re/p/4hhP](http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4hhP)

Breaking: Nelson Mandela dies at age 95.[www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-…](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-nelson-mandela-dead-20131205,0,6266118.storyhttp://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4gZ0)