Always Thinking Blog http://www.worklabs.com/dev/index.php/site/ en puck@worklabs.com Copyright 2010 2010-09-02T14:11:01-05:00 NASA Commons http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/nasa_commons/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/nasa_commons/#When:14:11:01Z This one is going to kill a small portion of your day. NASA Commons, a collection from roughly the last 50 years of NASA’s history. From meetings with JFK to experimental aircraft launches, it’s a somewhat behind-the-scenes look at the space agency. Check out the Flickr page or read a little more about it on Gizmodo. I love in this first photo how it’s basically just some nerds out in the desert riding bikes around under their homemade solar powered aircraft. I bet that was a fun day.

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]]> 2010-09-02T14:11:01-05:00 Fire Tornado http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/fire_tornado/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/fire_tornado/#When:13:17:00Z Title of this entry really kinda says it all.

]]> 2010-08-26T13:17:00-05:00 Top 50 Music Videos of the ‘90’s http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/top_50_music_videos_of_the_90s/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/top_50_music_videos_of_the_90s/#When:18:33:00Z This is gonna kill your afternoon, but it’ll be so worth it. Pitchfork’s ”Top 50 Music Videos of the ‘90’s.” So far I’m only to number 48 (counting down) and I’m already totally satisfied. Frank Black’s “Headache.”

]]> 2010-08-23T18:33:00-05:00 Back to the Future http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/back_to_the_future/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/back_to_the_future/#When:14:15:02Z The Back to the Future trilogy is coming out on Blu-ray on October 26th. So I think that pretty much means everyone needs to mark that day and the next day off from work now so we can have a Back to the Future party. Life preserver jackets optional.

]]> 2010-08-23T14:15:02-05:00 It’s about time, UPS http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/its_about_time_ups/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/its_about_time_ups/#When:14:32:00Z UPS has started making re-usable mailers. Hopefully all the other shipping companies will catch on with this soon. I can’t believe it’s taken this long for these things to become re-usable. I guess they’ve always been re-usable sort of, you just need to use tape. But I feel like I’m the only person that ever did that. But either way, I applaud you, UPS, let’s hope this catches on.

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]]> 2010-08-16T14:32:00-05:00 Animated Graffiti http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/animated_graffiti/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/animated_graffiti/#When:13:56:00Z Pretty cool way to do animation.

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]]> 2010-08-13T13:56:00-05:00 Europe in ‘06 http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/europe_in_06/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/europe_in_06/#When:13:35:01Z First it was The Great Depression in color. Now it’s 1906 Europe. I’m really digging all these old color photographs that are turning up on the internet lately. Oh yeah, these ones are all geo-tagged, too. It’d be awesome for someone to go to these places and reshoot these photos 104 years later. Makes you wonder how much different this stuff looks now due to WWII and modern-day development.

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]]> 2010-08-11T13:35:01-05:00 Crop QR Circles http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/crop_qr_circles/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/crop_qr_circles/#When:14:59:00Z I think aliens have finally figured out that we can’t read crop circles, so now they are leaving us QR codes. This article doesn’t really say much about the code, other than it was done so that it would show up on Google Earth. Clever idea, but I wonder if it’s big enough that when you see it on Google Earth you could actually use your phone (or some QR code reader) to read it.

UPDATE: Click here for the actual site about this thing: Hello, world!

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]]> 2010-08-10T14:59:00-05:00 New Pencils http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/new_pencils/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/new_pencils/#When:15:45:00Z I never really considered that the wooden #2 pencil might be an inferior writing instrument, but in light of Sharpie releasing a new liquid graphite pencil, I’m reconsidering. I’m also going to mention that based on seeing this already on Gizmodo and Boingboing, Sharpie’s social media campaign must be working.

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]]> 2010-08-09T15:45:00-05:00 The Depression in Color http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/the_depression_in_color/ http://www.worklabs.com/site?/blog/entry/the_depression_in_color/#When:13:23:00Z If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you probably know that I love photo galleries of times since past. So this one is real treat because it’s all in color, which is pretty rare for 70+ year old photos. They were shot by the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information during the Depression and now all these slides look like they reside in the Library of Congress. So check them out here on the Denver Post’s photo blog or click any of the pictures below to go there. And seriously, check out that railroad welder guy, that photo is incredible.

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