Yesterday evening the Northwest Nazarene University gymnasium caught fire. We just happened to be leaving the house about that time and followed the smoke to campus. It was a crazy scene. It seems as though we were not the only people that were drawn toward the smoke. The traffic was horrible everyone in town seemed to be in a couple block radius of the university. There were groups of people running down the road to get a better view. We managed to take a couple photos.

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High Schooler Gets Detention for Using Firefox? [Ha]: ”

Now this is a sad story…if it’s true. According to this alleged school report, one student received a detention for using Firefox—as opposed to IE or Safari, we assume. And while there could be plenty of explanations for why the school would want to control student browsers, we loved the teacher’s write-up of the event:

Today in class [name] had a program launched called Foxfire.exe. I had told [name] to close the program and to resume work but he told me that is was just a different browser and that he was doing his work. I had given him two warnings but he insisted that it was just a ‘better’ browser and he wasn’t doing anything wrong. I had then issued his detention.

Either this is the funniest detention we’ve ever seen or the best viral marketing in history. But the school, phone number and names on the report seem to be legit.

It’s OK, faceless teenager. High school is tougher for the smart kids, if only because it’s the last chance the world has to kick you in the balls before you take it over. [image via digg]

(Via Gizmodo.)