http://www.patrickmicka.com This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:36:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [singlepic=37,320,240,,center] WRT54Z is a short no-budget live-action film being produced by the UK Film club. It chronicles Claudia and Michael's attempt to survive a zombie infection on campus and prevent it from spreading elsewhere. Additionally, this film is being released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Have fun watching! ... http://www.patrickmicka.com/uncategorized/wrt54z-trailer-released/ Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-grumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before. -Shel Silverstein http://www.patrickmicka.com/uncategorized/put-something-in/ I've already made a wordle text cloud of Obama's portion of last Friday's debate. As promised, here's McCains: [singlepic=36,320,240,,center] If you're interested in having a look at the text used you can find it here. http://www.patrickmicka.com/uncategorized/first-debate-wordled-mccain/ I've written about wordle before, and I am still completely blown away by how useful it is at conveying information without completely removing the context. I feel that this sort of word count analysis has been especially useful in the current political setting. The New York Times used this method ... http://www.patrickmicka.com/uncategorized/first-debate-wordled-obama/ [singlepic=34,,,,center] Adobe AIR, the runtime environment I've written about before, has moved out of Alpha and into Beta. Expect apps to run more consistently with Windows and Mac. Be sure to uninstall any previous releases of Adobe AIR before moving forward. This can be done in a number of ways depending on ... http://www.patrickmicka.com/ubuntu/adobe-air-runtime-comes-out-of-alpha/ [singlepic=33,,,,center] Instead of keeping your browser pointed towards the Facebook web page, Pidgin users should take advantage of an open-source plugin which enables Facebook chat via the XMPP/Jabber protocol. Users can then chat with friends, view the online status of their friends, and set their status through the third party chat ... http://www.patrickmicka.com/ubuntu/howto-use-facebook-chat-in-pidgin/ Earlier this month Google released its web browser, Chrome. Unfortunately for Mac OS X and Linux users, the beta release is only available for Windows. Within a short period time intrepid Linux users had already gotten it up and running under Wine. Better yet, the nice folks over at CodeWeavers ... http://www.patrickmicka.com/ubuntu/google-chrome-the-linux-way-sort-of/ I've finally gotten somewhat settled into my new house. Here's another doodle, also from the fridge, that was once acompanied by a somewhat passive-agressive note that read "If you eat food that isn't yours, you are a communist." It makes me laugh, and my milk was thereafter safe. [singlepic=29,420,,,center] http://www.patrickmicka.com/uncategorized/uncle-karl/ I can't recall when it was that I first ran across these typographic representations of film clips. Recently though, I discovered a few more videos, non film related, that really grab me with the way the type is used to express moods and ideas. Here's a playlist: Bonus: Also, I don't ... http://www.patrickmicka.com/uncategorized/kinetic-typography/ [singlepic=27,320,240,,center] As I prepare to move to my new apartment I'm trying gather all my little doodles and drawings which seem to have skattered throughout the house over the past year. I'll try to post more as I prepare for the move. http://www.patrickmicka.com/uncategorized/post-it/