Well, all of my time tonight was spent on drawing and re-drawing most of the country outlines in order to get the effects that I want. I didn’t get much done on progression of the movie/intro, but I figured a few things out… Like draw with the paint brush instead of the pencil.
I went to [...]

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Wow. That took a long time! I spent the whole evening working on making a better looking map. I almost had a bit of a scare as well, that all the work I put into tracing the outline of the land masses and the country lines would not turn out. My Flash skills are [...]

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So, I spent another 4 hours working on the Flash map. Mills showed me some really great Flash maps for inspiration. They live at MapsOfWar.com. I like the History of Religion map and the Imperial History map for their use of the timeline and map to convey the information. I want the 1989 [...]

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I got accepted to the PhD program at GMU recently. I just need to quit procrastinating and send my acceptance letter. The tough part is knowing I can get a stipend, but realizing I can’t take it because I’m a full time employee. Well the benefits (medical and monetary) out-way the stipend, and I love [...]

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Or a set of machines (appliances really) to take one back in time (at least mentally).
This post from William Turkel at Digital History Hacks about the history appliance was just down-right awesome.  How cool would it be, even if just in your browser or on your computer, to have everything (all types of media) display [...]

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