Kyle Mulka's Blog

Fresh from the minds at Google… They are offering a $4500 stipind to students for working on and releasing an open source project this summer. I’d love to apply, but I currently have an internship. Dang. Would this be worth losing my job over? I’m thinking probably not. But, if anyone else is interested, here’s the website:

Google Code: Summer of Code

Some other organizations that are willing to join, but may not be listed on the Google page:
Community Mapbuilder – they are developing an open source library of browser based mapping widgets
Our Media – Free hosting for media content

Also, I was in a chatroom with the contact person from Google. Here’s the transcript from the night of May 31st:
Transcript

UPDATE:

There are a whole bunch of new organizations. Almost triple what they had listed originally. Awsome.

Here’s a short list of AIM Bot Sites I’ve come across. I’m thinking about making an AIM to Blog and/or website interface, so this list is mostly for my reference.

• Run-A-Bot – lets you run your own bot? I haven’t tested it yet.
• Cyber Prank – Send an AI Bot to chat with your friends. They won’t know its not a real person. You get sent the transcript.
• Wired Bots – Company that specializes in making bots.
• Bot Depot – Forum for AIM Bots
• Joscar – Java Library for programming your own bot
• DiaWebLog – AIM Chatroom or IRC community blog interface
• algae LiveJournal AIM Client
• WebAIM – Web Based AIM Client

If you are looking for some funny articles by college students, check out this website. It is made partially by some of my buddies at UofM.

shadypenguin.com

Here’s a buddy of mine’s site. Check out the Milk Challenge section.

Man of Action

You might notice that I got a little post happy recently. Sorry about that. I updated the WordPress software I was using to the latest version, got myself a new theme, and put up a bunch of posts with a bunch of new catagories. If you don’t want to read everyhting, just click on one of the catagories on the right to show only what you are interested in seeing.

yey! I have an AIM bot… lets see how well this thing works… All he does is echo right now… I think
KMTestBot

I have to put this link here because it has a ton of good infomation about the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Area.

Campus Information Centers

Looks like the blogging company Six Apart, which now owns LiveJournal amung others, is hiring.

About Six Apart – Jobs

If you are looking for a theme for a WordPress blog like mine, check out this article:

How To Blog: Comprehensive list of 280 WordPress 1.5 Themes / Templates available for download

Why smart people defend bad ideas – scottberkun.com