How Golden Was Her Age?

I was finally was able to see Eliza­beth: The Golden Age today and was not dis­ap­poin­ted. This a movie worth see­ing at the theatre. The set­tings are sump­tu­ous, superbly shot and Cate Blanchett seems to be able to do no wrong. She is Eliza­beth. I am stay­ing away from his­tor­ical com­ment­ary here. This is a …

Melnick, Cruikshank and Bouchier Weave Magic on the Bay

The Wilson Centre in Cana­dian His­tory offi­cially launched an awe­some new learn­ing tool destined for the classrooms of local schools last night. The People and the the Bay is an his­tor­ical envir­on­mental doc­u­ment­ary cre­ated by Nancy Bouch­ier, Ken Cruikshank and the wiz­ards from Pixel Dust Stu­dios This stun­ning pro­duc­tion brings a viva­city, zest, and probing …

Herring and Lockerbie on The Coming Plague

The His­tory of Health and Medi­cine Sem­inar series con­tin­ued today with a rather pro­voc­at­ive paper by Dr. Ann Her­ring and Sta­cey Lock­er­bie. “The Com­ing Plague: Global panic, local reper­cus­sions and avian influ­enza,” con­tends that glob­al­iz­a­tion and spread of inform­a­tion has pre­ceded the poten­tial epi­demic with out­comes that alarm poten­tially unduly and have enorm­ous local economic …

Taming the RSS Beast

Check out Aid­eRSS — an excit­ing new tool to help man­age inform­a­tion over­load. It takes your exist­ing RSS feeds, ranks posts and returns a list weighted by per­ceived qual­ity. Won­der­ful paradigm shift­ing tech­no­lo­gies are sup­posed to stream­line our lives and allow us to rise to new cre­at­ive heights. The prom­ise of the paper­less office was …