Adding mods to minecraft 1.7.2?

So we want Biomes O' Plenty? (link) But need to install Forge first (link)

Minecraft Server: Bukkit dev install notes

Bukkit is a full update/replacement for your minecraft server.
A straightforward installation, just copy the jar into your server folder.
Take care to backup your world folder in case of loss.

The Bukkit version of the Minecraft server can load plugins just like the original Minecraft server. Just copy plugin files to the plugin folder.

Examples:

worldedit http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/worldedit/
dminigames http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/dminigames/
prophunt http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tomskiesprophunt/
easy warp http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/easy-warp/
player heads http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/player-heads/
micro blocks http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/microblocks/

commands of interest from the client side:

//hcyl redstainedglass 20 30
/time set 1
//set stonebrick
/clear
/tp selftoplayername
/tp otherplayername toselfname
/me message
/name
/gamemode 1 (sets own gamemode to 1=creative)
/gamemode 0 (sets own gamemode to 0=survival)
/setwarp
/kill
/socialspy
/tell
//walls stonebrick
//set 0
//set wood
//magicpartyarmourhao:pf
/help
/name
/nick
//wand
/op playername
/deop playername
/kick
/ban
/p1
//x-ray

Following the recipe for a pacman game in Scratch

The off-line editor can be accessed from http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/
The link to the recipe is http://scratched.media.mit.edu/sites/default/files/PacMan%20Lesson.pdf

I'll keep notes here on how we did.

1. Started by creating sprites named: 

PacMan (I used the Orange sprite)

Vertical  (re-tasked the Wand)

Horizontal (rotated a copy of Vertical)

PointPill (a Baseball)

Ghost_1 (borrow the Tera space character)

PowerUp (a Tennis Ball)

GameOver (a new Sprite using the text tool)

web site, domain name and web hosting

Domain name:
So I need a domain name? What name suffix should I choose?
Where should I register?
How much does it cost? Is it a once off cost or do I have to pay an annual renewal (rent)?
Once I have registered the domain name how do I link it with a web server?
How long does it take for the NS (name server) registration to change over if I switch host?
What if I change web hosting provider?
Notes: 
ICANN is the global authority, a roll-up registry, for internet domains (ICANN link). The purchase and renewal of domains is usually handled via reselling entities like Godaddy (commercial) and IEDR (a national authority). 

Web hosting provider:
What web hosting providers should I select (assuming I'm not going to do it myself)?
What services should I expect the host to provide (CMS choices, support, uptime, bandwidth etc).
Does the Hosting provider have the CMS I want?
Expandible?
Cost?

CMS for site:
Should I have a local copy of the system ? e.g. CMS + Apache + PHP + MySQL + ?
What themes and Plugins can I use?

Comments on Godaddy
So, the accounts that ever grow for a Godaddy website…
Because you need an email address to register the domain name with ICANN (via Godaddy)
This is also the email address linked with Godaddy billing information.

A new separate login associated with Godaddy, allows us to get into Godaddy and used to manage the cpanel. The cpanel allows the domain owner to install applications like Wordpress on the domain resource area.

An admin login associated with the Wordpress application installed and managed via Godaddy cpanel.
You can access it via the websiteurl/wp-admin/

Within the Wordpress installation you can have the following roles: administrator, contributor, author, editor, and subscriber. Usually, create a login id and invitation to recipient via their email address.

More Minecraft on Raspberry Pi with Kano

The Kano computer in a box project on Kickstarter is both an accessory pack for your Raspberry Pi and it seems a visual interface to programming your Minecraft Pi.
See http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexklein/kano-a-computer-anyone-can-make
and kano.me

Designing a dinosaur exoskeleton

eBooks, eLibraries and website hosting

If you're going to be in the business of delivering digital publications; books, text books, magazines, newspapers and other formats; you need to address several areas, essentially at the same time:

Serving the digital content. This may be further complicated by any requirement to serve the content to specific users, i.e. you might have 'members' that purchase copies, these purchased may be downloaded onto various devices (computers, eReaders) but your users will also have a copy of record in their 'member accounts area'.

How will members read the digital content? Ideally your library will deliver content that can be read by whatever device or software service the member has such as: Calibre, Kindle, Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader, Adobe Digital Editions reader software, Nook, etc.

If you are in the business 'for profit' you will need a means for charging customer/members, and for fulfilling or delivering purchases to member accounts and/or devices.

You will also need your content, the valuable digital content that your members will be prepared to pay for in some way to access via your service.

Your service will be like a digital library, where members will be able to login to their own accounts, see what they have borrowed or bought, and even search through the library, browsing copies in your system that they might borrow or buy.

Mathletics: A teacher can set up exercise for students to do math on computers at home. Uses gamefication idea to create a community move.  Pricing €5 per student per year.

The big issue is product versus service. Publishers want to keep control (and fees).

Overdrive? Amazon loaning.

Random book page?

XBMC

Foobar2000

Can these be customised to deliver books?

Digital locker services, Dropbox, GoogleLS, Amazon S3.

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REFERENCES AND OTHER SOURCES

SOPAC is an open source library discovery/catalogue service (link), this version is termed the social OPAC.
eBook options for online library services (link), a comparison of some solutions
Small Moves: Open Library Integrates Digital Lending (link) and the OpenLibrary site itself is here (link).
Scan My Library (link)
EBSCO host publishers aggregator (link)
Self hosting publications (link)
Adobe Digital Editions reader (link) and further links to the Adobe ecosystem of product/services.
A really nice, minimalist library site, the interface is at exactly the right level for a general audience (link). It uses the 3M Cloud Library application.
The Digital Reader provides an overview of comparable platforms (link).
Polaris is yet commercial library platform (link).
biblibre.com are a consulting group that provide open source services to libraries (link).