From The Secretary’s Handbook, 1965

I was cleaning out my home office and I found my grandmother’s Secretary’s Handbook from the 1960s. While I am studying gender and crime in the late 19th century, I tend to always have a soft spot for popular culture and historic text books and how-tos. I wrote my Master’s thesis on how cookbooks conveyed [...]

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Death in Diorama

The draft of my site is up. I’ve been poking around the blogs today and I’m really looking forward to the presentations tomorrow. Thank you to those who have continuously commented here and have given feedback over the course of the semester. Your talents, insight and opinions have been most helpful. Have a great summer [...]

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Comments, Week of May 3

I commented on Kellie’s project, Carrie’s project and Laura’s progress.

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Go Ask Alice

If the soundtrack to Zayna’s road to her final project draft presentation included “Truckin’,” my theme this week was “White Rabbit.” After two evenings of chasing unfortunate rabbits to a dead end, I’m working my way to something that is really do-able. Nothing really major has changed from my design presentation except that I have [...]

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Comments, Week of April 26th

Commented on Zayna’s final.

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Comments, Week of April 19

I commented on Lisa’s design project, Zayna’s progress with her heels and howitzers image and Erika’s rats.

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Design Assignment Progress

I took advantage of the torrential rain yesterday and made some great progress on my design assignment. All of my assignments to date have been designed in such a way to allow me to play with my final project design, so I tried to take all the neat things that I liked from my past [...]

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Image Maps R Us: Comments for Week of April 12

Carrie and I had a discussion about her fabulously yellow design project and her image map on her blog. I also commented on Alexa’s plea for kick-ass and innovative history sites. I also commented on Kellie’s thoughts on interactivity and 3-D.

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I Fear I’ll Hate These Damn Dolls Before The End

I’ve accomplished 3 minor victories, and now, the weekend is over, which means my ever-growing project to-do list is going to have to wait until Wednesday. Still, I am very pleased with myself. Not everything is how I’d like it and I can’t for the life of me figure out pop-up positioning, but I’ll get [...]

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Comments: Week of April 5

I commented on Zayna’s post with some well-timed (?) Alice in Wonderland references and on Lisa’s post about how awesome Ted.com is.

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