I'm looking forward to going to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. I'm excited that I'll see Colm Feore in two leading roles. Here are my seat numbers:

Cyrano de Bergerac - June 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM Section: A Orchestra 1, Row: B, Seat: 64 and Seat 63.

Macbeth - July 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM Section: A Orchestra 9, Row: D, Seat: 64 and Seat ( Read more... )

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An article about the references to flying vehicles and cities in ancient Indian epic poetry such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Some people think that these might refer to ancient technology. A few of them did remind me of anime and Star Trek episodes, which may have been inspired by the older tales. That said, we don't have flying cities ( Read more... )

27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis -- I thought this link was interesting. Each of the graphics has a slightly different take on the financial crisis, by choosing in which ways to oversimplify it. Visual information can be easier to understand than text sometimes, and sometimes the simplest ones can be the most

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. So I will blog about some women in technology.

I'll start with Ada Lovelace herself. She was a remarkable person. She did a lot of theoretical work on computer programming in the 1800s, and wrote the first computer program. She wrote it for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, an early prototype of a computer that ( Read more... )

Bookcloseouts.com is having a 99¢ manga sale until March 26, 2009.

flying_squirrel and I were talking about A Midsummer Night's Dream the other day.
flying_squirrel: You know how actors talk about their Hamlet and their Lear?
enleve: Yeah
flying_squirrel: I wonder if they talk about their Bottom in the same way.
enleve: (snigger) Like "My Bottom is going to be better than your Bottom."
flying_squirrel: No one's Bottom will ever be as good as Sir Laurence Olivier's Bottom. I saw Sir ( Read more... )

Dr. Petra mentions on her blog a video made by some former porn stars with advice for people who are considering working in the industry ( Read more... )

Shakespeare made the same joke as Britney Spears did in the controversial title of her most recent single "If You Seek Amy", in this line from Twelfth Night, spoken by Malvolio:

"By my life this is my lady's hand. These be her very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her great P's"
I've seen that play several times, and read it, and I ( Read more... )

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