gleans + 1xaddenda at 2:25 AM EDT, 3/17

Licklider's vision of the Digital Age
A scholarly essay in 1947, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper, had an awful lot to say about how we live with computers today. Read Full Story

Commentary

'Bong' Case Tests Students' Free Speech 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The message connected drug use and religion in a nonsensical phrase that was designed to provoke, and it got Joseph Frederick in a heap of trouble.

 

FBI: Extremists Driving School Buses 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said, ''Parents and children have nothing to fear.''. <== hmmm

 

Judge Blocks Sale of Escort Client List 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge ordered a former escort business owner on Friday not to sell phone records and other documents that could identify her estimated 15,000 clients.

 

Analysis: Clinton Talks About Dark Times 

NEW YORK (AP) -- The vast right-wing conspiracy. Evil and bad men. Sticking with people who stick with you.

 

More video games, fewer books at schools? 

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Of all of the proposals aimed at improving America's failing schools, there's one idea kids will really like: More video games and fewer books.

 

 

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