12 Items for April 2009
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The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken / www.idc.ac.il/tecs
A course with most materials needed online. There's an accompanying video. Takes students from a NAND gate to adders to machine language to virtual machines to high level languages. All in one course.
An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine
I always like these timeline-on-a-map style of viewing how data changes over time. This one is a bit scary.
How Long Will the World’s Natural Resources Last? | FlowingData
Neat chart estimating natural resource consumption. More interesting visualization data.