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.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released it’s annual report on the most corrupt members of Congress and Alaska leads the pack. Of the four senators on their list, good old Sen. Ted Stevens and Sen. Lisa Murkowski are both present. Picking up any slack is the perennial Rep. Don Young, who is named in CREW’s list of corrupt Members of House. I’m proud that Alaska is able to shine so brightly as our Northern Star, leading the way, and leading by example.
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.
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.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released it’s annual report on the most corrupt members of Congress and Alaska leads the pack. Of the four senators on their list, good old 