Friday, March 25, 2005

The Power of the Internet

Interest! ALERT News has a UPI story that illustrate the awesomeness of the new technology:

Principal apologizes for smoking at school

PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 25 (UPI) -- A Providence high school principal who suspended a student for posting a picture of her smoking on his Web site has apologized to the student body.

Eliazar Velasquez, 17, caught Elaine Almagno lighting up on the grounds of Central High School, a violation both of Rhode Island state law and school district policy, the Providence Journal reported. She ordered him to remove the photograph from his Web site and suspended him when he refused.

On Tuesday, the sophomore was offered reinstatement but only if he complied with the removal order. On Wednesday, Superintendent of Schools Melody Johnson went public, saying that Almagno, "a veteran administrator with a 25-year unblemished record," had made a mistake.

Johnson said that she ordered Central High officials to remove the suspension from Velasquez's record and that Almagno had apologized over the intercom for smoking on school grounds. [ … ]


At the great military ceremony with which the British army surrendered to the colonial forces at Yorktown, the British band appropriately played “And the World’s Turned Upside Down”.

And today’s hi-tech revolutionaries would do well to remember the instructions that General Washington gave to the colonial forces before that ceremony:

My brave fellows, let no shouting, no loud huzzahs, further increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us to witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzzah for us.