If You Stare At Someone Long Enough,

I'm 17 Years Old. I'm Not A Straight-a Student Or Anything. Even So, I Figured Out How To Make An Internet That They Can't Wiretap. I Figured Out How To Jam Their Person-tracking Technology. I Can Turn Innocent People Into Suspects And Turn Guilty People Into Innocents In Their Eyes. I Could Get Metal Onto An Airplane Or Beat A No-fly List. I Figured This Stuff Out By Looking At The Web And By Thinking About It. If I Can Do It, Terrorists Can Do It. They Told Us They Took Away Our Freedom To Make Us Safe. Do You Feel Safe?

The Good News (for Writers) Is That This Means That Ebooks On Computers Are More Likely To Be An Enticement To Buy The Printed Book (which Is, After All, Cheap, Easily Had, And Easy To Use) Than A Substitute For It. You Can Probably Read Just Enough Of The Book Off The Screen To Realize You Want To Be Reading It On Paper.

If It's Not In My Email Archive, I Don't Know It

This Is Why I Loved Technology: If You Used It Right, It Could Give You Power And Privacy.

If This Prinicpal Thinks Blogging Isn't Educational, He Needs His Head Examined: He Should Be Seeking Out Every Student Blogger In The School And Giving Them Special Time To Blog More - And Giving Them Extra Credit Besides.