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.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

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?