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|  | March 30th, 2012 | | Posted 1 day ago by  Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! | | You've probably heard more than one angry person muttering, "They used to make things better in my day!" These 10 ancient gizmos lend some creedence to that logic. Take, for example, a car that's been running for over a century: A steam-powered car, billed as "The Oldest Car In The World That Still Runs," was sold in October 2011 at a Hershey, Pa. auction, for $4.6 million.The car had been built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz of Germany—who went on to found the car-makers that would become Daimler (DDAIF), maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars—built their first experimental gasoline-powered cars. The four-wheeled De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux, nicknamed "La Marquise," was originally built for the French Count De Dion, one of the founders of the company that built it. Fueled by coal, wood and bits of paper,the car takes about a half hour to work up enough steam to drive. Top speed is 38 miles per hour. The car came close to that speed during what has been billed as "The World's First Automobile Race" in 1887, according to RM Auctions. The car had last been sold in 2007 for about $3.5 million at a Pebble Beach, Calif. auction It may not be the fastest car on the road, but I bet it's lasted longer than your Ford or Honda ever could! Or what about a 75-year-old TV? For £5,000 you might have expected a bigger, flatter screen. But this television does come with 75 years of broadcasting history – and you can still hook it up to a Freeview box. Built in 1936, the Marconi type-702 is the oldest working television set in Britain. It was bought for just under £100 only three weeks after transmissions in Britain began. And with just one channel broadcasting for two hours a day, there wasn't much need for a remote control.
But what the television lacks in modern technology, it makes up for in reliability. Only 30 per cent of its components have been replaced during its lifetime, all with identical parts. The 75-year-old set has a 12-in. screen contained in a walnut and mahogany case, with the picture reflected on to a mirror for the viewer to look at. The TV has now a pre-sale estimate of £5,000, but experts at Bonhams expect it to fetch much more. It cost Mr. Davis £99 and 15 shillings – more than half the annual average wage at the time and equivalent to almost £4,000 today. Its serial number is H1007, and it is thought the sequence began at 1,000, making it number 7. Full story at Oddee. More for history buffs. Photo credit: Fotolia | | | Posted 1 day ago by Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! | | Business blogs love to feature Q&A sessions with influential or inspirational leaders. Unfrotunately, many blogs miss the boat with unsatisfying questions and, as a result, feature unhelpful answers. Reputation Capital offers five keys to crafting a succesful question and answer session. Here are two examples: - Be flexible about the logistics. Some people love to talk on the phone, and that’s how you’ll get the best answers from them. For others, e-mail fits their schedule and communication needs better. Adapt your format to your subject’s comfort level. If you’re conducting the interview orally, ask for permission to record it so you have a backup for your notes. (And I do mean BACKUP; there is no substitute for written note-taking.)
- Tailor the questions. While it’s fine to have a few stock questions you always ask, your Q-and-A will be much richer if you develop three to five questions specific to your subject and audience. At least skim your subject’s book, if she has written one. Visit his website or blog. What is she most passionate about?
Full story at Reputation Capital. More ways to become a better writer. Photo credit: Fotolia | | | Posted about 5 hours ago by  Rüdiger Klos-Neumann to wopStar |  1 | | Enjoy the show and guess what occupation it is?! Genieße die Show und errate welcher Beruf dargestellt wird?! If you enjoy wopStar, feel free to love, like, tweet, rate and share us, thanks a lot.Visit us on www.wopStar.com to get the solution. About wopStar:
- Soon wopStar starts as free webcam-based browser game.
- The aim is to guess about terms, words or even pantomime show via webcam.
- Play with your friends or meet challenges still unknown.
- Make new friends around the world face to face know.
- Playing together to get stars, fame and honor.
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*wopStar is totally free crazy party game for the whole family* | | | | | Posted about 21 hours ago by  Carlos Lima to The TECH FIX | | Essa moda de políticos colocarem faixas agradeçendo a si mesmo afim de se promover, precisa ser esculachada mesmo. O que é realizado em um cargo público muito bem remunerado por nós, não precisa de agradecimento, e muito menos por se fazer o que seria apenas uma obrigação do estado, como neste caso a sinalização. Muito boa a iniciativa de quem colocou a faixa... ações assim mostram que nem todos nós somos ovelhas desinformadas. | | | Posted about 20 hours ago by  Guy Kawasaki to Holy Kaw! | | If you missed the social-media seminar that Mari Smith and I did yesterday, here is the archive. We discussed the seven hottest social-media business trends: branding, humanizing your presence, cause-based marketing, social status, flawsomeness, mobile, and privacy. | | | Posted about 19 hours ago by  Futurity to Holy Kaw! | | A new highly digestible alfalfa variety could boost milk production by more than three pounds a day, new research shows. With less fiber taking up space in all those stomachs, cows can eat more of the high-quality alfalfa and produce more milk, say the Cornell University developers of N-R-Gee variety. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Cornell | | | Posted about 19 hours ago by  Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | Nobody likes to be that person staring at the subway map in a panic trying to make sure they’re not headed into the unknown, but thanks to Designhypes new Metro Cuffs, you can look both tough and knowledgeable at the same time. Currently they offer cuffs for London, New York, Paris and Milan, but are planning on launching a Chicago version soon for those who find themselves blown the Windy City’s way. Full story at Design Hype via Laughing Squid. Practical fashion. | | | Posted about 18 hours ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! | | 4 | | An analysis of 40 years of satellite imagery shows the floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are tearing apart at the seams. The ice shelves are steadily losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, potentially amplifying an already accelerating loss of ice to the sea, say researchers from University of Texas at Austin. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Michael Studinger, NASA's Operation IceBridge | | | Posted about 18 hours ago by Guy Kawasaki to Holy Kaw! | | Many people ask me how I find stuff to post to Holy Kaw, Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. I use Alltop; it’s a site that aggregates over 85,000 blogs and websites that cover over 1,000 topics. Now we offer an iPad app for Alltop to make staying on top of “all the topics” even easier. With it, you can organize your favorite topics, revisit topics that you recently used, and access your personalized MyAlltop account. Alltop for iPad is free, and you can get it here in the iTunes store. | | | Posted about 16 hours ago by  Andris Rubins to Rubins' posterous | | Each year we participate with our DDB Latvia team in the festival of creative excellence ADwards, as it is a great possibility to check the competitiveness of ideas and craftsmanship both in Latvia as well all around the world (the jury consists of internationally recognised advertising and design professionals). Most often we receive a couple of prizes and finalist diplomas. However, last year we did not receive any award and were angry. Angry and frustrated as we knew that we definitely can do better. At that moment, I wouldn’t have guessed that this cold shower was probably the best what could happen to us. We decided to become even more demanding to ourselves, our principles, believes and the work processes. We tried even harder to create and implement ideas which people would be willing to share, participate and play with. Or as we like call it at DDB - Social Creativity. As a result, this year DDB Latvia won the Grand Prix and became the most awarded agency of ADwards. The awarded projects: - Ventspils Venti. Grand Prix award, gold for integrated campaign, the winner of national voting.
- Okarte Masks. Gold for integrated campaign, silver for digital campaign and graphic identity.
- Nordea Darigudri.lv. Silver for digital campaign and a special prize from Uzvelckreklu.lv.
- Ziedot.lv kiosk. Finalist diploma for print.
And the winning team: I also want to compliment the organisers team of ADwards, because this year the creative concept of the festival and the awards ceremony have raised the quality bar higher than ever. Even the representatives of the international jury admitted that they can't remember such a powerful and well organised advertising festival. But. Who would have thought that a failure may be an excellent opportunity to become the best? Shortly saying - "No fail. No win." | | | Posted about 16 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | 4 | | Although you likely have a few sticky notes hanging around reminding you to do laundry, pick up the kids or not to miss that meeting at 3:00, there are some reminders we could really use that don’t get written down. Luckily Things We Forget has created a poster of seventy examples of inspirational notes just in case you forget the very things that make getting through a busy day that much easier. Full story at Things We Forget via Bit Rebels. A bit of inspiration. | | | Posted about 16 hours ago by  NUMBLUNG to Dont Tell the Hipsters | | 3 | | Will Ferrell made a guest appearance on Conans' Late Night show last night, in character as Americas favorite anchorman, Ron Burgundy. "I want to announce this to everyone here in the Americas, to my friends, in Spain, Turkey and the U.K., including England ... as of 0900 Mountain Time, Paramount Pictures and myself, Ronald Joseph Aaron Burgundy, have come to terms on a sequel for 'Anchorman.' It is official, there will be a sequel to 'Anchorman.' " And with that said, he picked up his flute and exited upstage. Now we all play the waiting game & hope the sequel is half has good as the first. Check out the video below of his performance from last night. Embedded media -- click here to see it. | | | Posted about 13 hours ago by krupption to Dont Tell the Hipsters | | 3 | | Campus Consciousness is half tour, half environmental campaign. CCT aims to inspire and activate students in an electric atmosphere while leaving a positive impact on each community the tour visits. In addition to educating and mobilizing students, the tour includes many greening elements and is run to have a minimal environmental footprint. For those not fimilair with J. Cole or Big KRIT; they're raising stars in the hip hop game. J. Cole, Jay-Z's protege has taken the fast route for stardom. His savy and intelligent lyrics are supported by the fact that he graduated Magna Cum Laude for St. John's University. While Big KRIT is the Dirty South's next big thing. Inspired by groups like the Crooked Lettaz, Pimp C, UGK. KRIT uses his smooth southern voice on early rythm and blues beats that creates a new and fresh sound. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Embedded media -- click here to see it. DATES: April 11 University of Rhode Island @ Ryan Center Kingston, RI Doors 7pm April 13 Babson College @ Pepsi Co Pavilion Babson Park, MA Doors 7:30pm April 14 Colby College @ Wadsworth Arena Waterville, ME Doors 8:30pm April 17 University of Illinois @ Assembly Hall Theater Champaign, IL Doors 6:30pm April 18 Northern Illinois University @ Convocation Center DeKalb, IL Doors 6:30pm April 19 University of Kentucky @ Memorial Coliseum Lexington, KY TBD April 20 U Pittsburgh @ Johnstown Sports Center Johnstown, PA Doors 7pm April 21 UNC Greensboro and A&T State U @ White Oak Ampitheater Greensboro, NC Doors 6:30 April 23 Drury University @ O’Reilly Center Springfield, MO Doors 7pm April 24 University of Northern Iowa @ McLeod Center Cedar Falls, IA Doors 6:30pm April 26 Bloomsburg College @ Nelson Fieldhouse Bloomsburg, PA Doors 7pm April 27 West Virginia University @ WVU Coliseum Morgantown, WV Doors 6:30pm May 3 University of New Hampshire @ Whittemore Center Arena Durham, NH Doors 7pm | | | Posted about 11 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | 35mm film isn’t easy to get rid of, so rather than throwing it in the landfill, Lucas Desimone and Matias Resich designed these very stylish and practical shelves, called Filmantes, using film strips and wood. The discarded material comes from a previous collaboration with movie distributors Desimone had going, and the wood comes from Laboratori’s workshop. Even though they tried to use recovered wood, the film needed to be in perfect tension to support the weight so they needed a type that wouldn’t bend or modify with time and which could provide a perfect fit. It sounds like this is the first of a number of projects they hope to do using old film, so stay tuned to VU35 to see what other interesting pieces they think of. Full story at VU35 via Treehugger. Clever design. | | | Posted about 11 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | 4 | | “Eep!” by Michael Chirlin and Veronica Ettle It’s that time of year again when the Washington Post announces its Peeps diorama winners, but with so many fabulous entries, Miss Cellania at mental_floss decided to narrow down the field to those that depict Oscar winners. “Peeps on the Run” by Karen Schroll “P.E.E.P.: The Easter-Terrestrial” by Abigail Bathrick and Caroline Chen Full story at mental_floss. It’s not candy, it’s art. | | | Posted about 10 hours ago by  Gerardo Torres to Conozca Más | | 2 | | 1 Cartoon Network, ese canal que no te pierdes cuando tiene maratones de Johnny Bravo, prepara una nueva serie de dibujos animados inspirada en Batman (Sí, otra vez, pero ni te quejes porque seguro lo batisintonizarás). El nombre es Beware The Batman y la fecha de estreno está por confirmarse. –Lo que no me gusta: no hay Robin, Batman se hace acompañar de una tal Katana. Además Alfred es un ex agente secreto (¡WTF!) y al parecer no habrá Joker, sólo nuevos villanos. ¿Como la ve, apreciable lector?  | 2 Con la confirmación (ya lo habíamos comentado aquí, pero les recordamos) de que Liam Neeson aparece en The Dark Knight Rises, ahora tendrás que lavarte la boca con jabón cada vez que pronuncies su nombre. Con la misma sencillez de Ian McKellen, el Sr. Neeson ha dado vida a iconos personajes queridos por los geeks, como Qui Gon Jin (Star Wars), Ra's al Ghul (Batman Begins), Zeus (Furia de Titanes I y II), Admiral Shane (Battleship), Oskar Schindler (La lista de Schlinder), Payton Westlake (Darkman), Kegan (Krull), entre otras series (Los Simpsons), películas (La saga de Narnia) y películas de manga (Ponyo) en las que ha prestado su voz. –Ahí nomás para que se den un quemón. Respeto al Sr. Neeson o qué? 3 La película de Superman (The Man of Steel) ya tiene promocional y fecha de estreno. Apunten: 14 de junio de 2013 – Zzzzzz... 4 Aunque usted no lo crea, está confirmada la secuela de la película Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), con el reparto original de la primera (que incluye nombres como Steve Carrel y Paul Rudd, que han estelarizado otras películas). –Recuerden que esta fue la película que permitió a Ferrel hacer otras glorias del cine como Talladega Nights o Casa de mi padre, que están por estrenarse. Yeah! 5 Existe un fuerte rumor sobre la posibilidad de que se celebre el 25 aniversario de Chucky el muñeco diabólico (1988) con una nueva película. Lo que no está definido es si será un 'remake de la original' (cosa que suena como una duda razonable con los 'reboots' de Spidey, Furia de Titanes y Batman) o la quinta tortuosa secuela de la saga. –Sea como sea, a nosotros, nos gusta la idea. | | | | |
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