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Can’t afford to go to Burning Man? Don’t have a ticket? Not your cup of tea? Worry not, help is at hand.

[Thanks to Mary Harrington, the Chief Community Officer at School of Everything, who brought this to my attention via Twitter].

It’s not every day you come across a Chaucerian blog; I’d seen it some years ago, but my bookmark stopped working and I’d assumed it was defunct.

But it’s back with a bang. Blazinge Fellow. Read all about it.

And I couldn’t help but think: Maybe we have another opportunity to “shift time”, but this time via the Web. Maybe we could translate texts from time X to time Y, backwards or forwards in time, but in the same language. I can see a few places where such a facility would be useful. Any views?