The Juneau Blockbuster now has giant pickles for sale. They come in hermetically sealed pouches filled with day-glow pickle juice. I haven’t yet been brave enough to try one but I think maybe tomorrow will be the day. I’ll let you know how it goes.

I’m not as scared of pickles as some people but these things are spooky. They feel like the kind of thing you need to open with tongs and a Homer Simpson style reactor suit.

Alaska Robotics Comic: In a Pickle

Check out The Alaska Short Forum, it’s a new television show we’ve been working on and episode three just hit the web today!

You can catch episodes online or on KTOO/360North which broadcasts statewide.

We’re still in the experimental stages so any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Also, we’re looking for Alaskan short films to feature on the show so if you know any animators or filmmakers who might want to share their work, please help get the word out. Thanks!

I’ve been using the Miro player to track YouTube RSS feeds and currently have a channel setup to capture any videos with “Juneau” in the keywords. Mostly I get crappy home video footage of people visiting the glacier or video performances by a band named Juneau. Today I finally hit the jackpot.

Weird Al came to Juneau in 1995 and put on a kick ass concert at Centennial Hall. It was pretty much the pinnacle of live music experiences during the first 20 years of my life. I remember waiting in a big line after the show so that I could meet him. The guy in front of me asked to touch Weird Al’s hair. It was.. weird.

Geotagged YouTube videos are sprouting up on Google Earth. Now you can see what your neighbors are posting or find clips from your favorite places in the world. I’ve been using to explore Southeast Alaska and Aaron was revisiting Armenia.

It doesn’t look like all of our geotagged videos are in place yet and I’m not sure what the update cycle is like but it’s going to become a really incredible tool in the next couple years. I just updated our Buy Back Alaska video so that it should eventually appear on or around the state capitol building. Heh heh.

Here’s some of the clumsy footage I managed to scrag together from the lunar eclipse last night. Lou took some cool photos that aren’t included here, this series just comes off my little point and shoot camera. I should have duct taped it to a telescope and upped the resolution but it was total amateur night for me up on the rooftop.

At least I didn’t fall off into the alley.

We’ve changed the front page design around a bit on the Alaska Robotics site to help out the humans and web crawling bots who stumble across our site and aren’t sure what they’re dealing with.

The new design includes a side bar for new blurbs and a short, keyword-laden description of the project. The news blurbs will be included in the RSS feed and major events will be cross posted on Orphan Army so we can keep all of our important news logged in one central location.

My design for the Miro 1-click competition placed third, thanks to everyone who voted for me!

I created a couple of little buttons for the Miro 1-Click Design Contest so bounce on over to their site and vote for the best me!

• Design Contest: Judgement Day(s)