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Nov. 24, 1903: Clyde J. Coleman is issued a patent for an electric automobile starter.

Coleman originally applied for the patent in 1899, but his early designs proved impractical. The need for this kind of starter for an internal combustion engine was obvious. Automobiles were getting larger, and hand-cranking — the method used to get the pistons moving in order to make ignition possible — was not only cumbersome, but physically demanding and potentially injurious.

The hand cranks in use at the time were built with an overrun mechanism meant to disengage the crank from the spinning drive shaft, but it was designed to work in forward drive only. If the car backfired, the engine could slip into reverse, forcing the crank backward sharply. The result could be a broken thumb, or worse.

The electric starter motor, when perfected, meant the end of the hand-cranked automobile.

Coleman sold his patent to the Delco Company, which was taken over by General Motors. Charles Kettering, a Delco engineer who joined GM, did some tinkering with Coleman’s design and received his own patent for an improved version. The 1912 model Cadillac became the first car to replace the hand crank with an electric starter motor.

Most automobile manufacturers switched over to the electric starter during the teens, although Ford’s Model T continued using the hand crank through 1919. With the exception of those old Model T’s, almost every car on the road boasted an electric starter by 1920.

Source : wikipedia

“As real as it gets” by advertising firm, Bates 141 Jakarta. A very clever representation of, I dare say, one of our design software’s most recognizable user interface. Even the tag line is great.
Check out the production process,

Goodnight Electric formed by Henry Foundation right at the end of 2003 in Jakarta. A concept of music concentrated in synthpop genre. Inspired by musician in the early 80’s and 90’s such as Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The cure, Belle and Sebastian and The Lightning Seeds. Goodnight Electric combines elements from electro, pop and new wave using synthesizer and computer as the main tools.
“Solid Gold” Taken from 2nd LP “Electroduce Yourself” Released by Aksara Records in 2007

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Coming from Brescia, Italy. Le Man Avecs Les Lunettes (LMALL) brings a bright shiny indie pop songs, influenced by Belle And Sebastian, Beach Boys, Blur etc, to made a distinct indie-pop character themselves.

They release “Plaska Plaska Bombelibom” under My Honey Records, with 11 songs, one of the song written in (I don’t know what it is, maybe a language from Scandinavian region) while they write the other songs in English.

I’ve try to listen a song from LMALL which is A Summer Song and it’s remind me to Hari and Aino, and this song recently played by myself with my audio player.

Check more info and listen to their songs at :
www.myspace.com/occhialuto
www.lmall.it
www.myhoney.it

Despite a lot off company use famous actor or actreess, this advertisement will prove creative idea needed than axpensive actor. Everyday we have alot of companies in our surroundings who are advertising their products, services, business etc and trying to inform the public or their target audience about them. Sometimes they are just an advertisement but some companies works very hard to make their promotional / advertisement campaign very unique, striking and successful. There must be innovation and creativity involve in any successful creative advertisement campaign. Today, I am starting a series of Extremely Creative Advertisment I have Ever Seen and this is a first post of the series in which I have collected 28 extremely creative advertisement images. Just take a look at them.

In a world that’s topsy turvy, the Web remains stalwartly optimistic. In their voting BW’s Best of the Web list, readers did flag SimplyHired, the job site, Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed blog, which is closely following Wall Street’s meltdown, and FootNoted, which combs through companies’ Securities and Exchange Commission filings for info investors might miss.

But for the most part, voters stuck to voting for the video sites, gaming sites and blogging technologies that help them get through the day and stay in touch with family and friends. Newcomers on the list ran the gamut, from SportsFanLive, a new community site that lets you organize the news around your obsessions, to the Microsoft Worldwide Telescope, which lets amateur astronomers explore the cosmos through their computers. Actually i’ve spent my time to browse all the category and that was fun also some website maybe kinda strange for me but when i visited

Each year, Businessweek make a list of best of the Web that contain 25 person that have great influential on the web , asking them to contribute names for a list of the Internet’s movers and shakers. Take a look at the slide show at businessweek subtopic technology to see which people have the most impact on the Web these days. Read the full story If you want to see 100 web celebrities, you can try this site. 100 web celebrities

Nowdays, we can find a lot of catalogue that inform full of intersting stuff for our fashion, not many but majority just show off their product. Now take a look to suavecatalogue, even they are same like the other show some products but in addition the add some article, nice story and lots of design in their catalogue. So get theit catalogue now or you can simply download their e-magz P.S. : You must register to download the  catalogue

Now, researchers at Durham University are giving classrooms a makeover, replacing students’ wooden desktops with interactive multi-touch ones. Along with a team of educators and manufacturers, the researchers have recently unveiled SynergyNet, a hardware-software system similar to Microsoft Surface that offers an immersive and potentially more engaging learning experience for youngsters. Pupils using the interactive tables can, for example, work out math problems visually and physically (using their fingertips to move around units) or see the teacher’s blackboard demonstrations right on their desks. The system has already been implemented in one unnamed UK school and is expected to appear in other primary and secondary schools over the next few years. According to a report by website Science Daily, the hardware and software combo also uses vision systems that can see infrared light, allowing it to recognise both single and multiple touches. Read the full article

“We ruined our good pants so you don’t have to.”

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Franz Ferdinand have just released a new song on iTunes (Aug 19th) called ‘Lucid Dreams.’

The song is included on the Madden NFL ‘09 Soundtrack.
I haven’t listened to it just yet but thought I’d post up a link on youtube for all you die hard fans.
It’s also possible to listen to the song on their website . The artwork while playing the song on the site is awesome. Proper Rustic

Coldplay have once again struck gold with their fourth album, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends , it has displayed great lasting power in the global chart, topping the chart four weeks in a row with sales exceeding 3,400,000  easily making it the No. 1 album of 2008, so far. No doubt, Chris Martin is feeling pretty high and mighty right now and being the generous guy that he is, as a thank you, the band offered a new song Death Will Never Conquer as a thankyou to their millions.

Get their song on their website

Last.fm is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It claims over 21 million active users based in more than 200 countries.[1] On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140m ($280m USD).[2]

Using a music recommendation system called “Audioscrobbler”, Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either on the streamed radio stations or on the user’s computer or some portable music devices. This information is transferred to Last.fm’s database (”scrobbled”) via a plugin installed into the user’s music player. The profile data is then displayed on the user’s profile page. The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user’s favourites.

so what you waiting for, let’s listen to last.fm

On December 10 the Plain White T’s released “Hate” in the UK. Higgenson stated in an interview that he thought they were bigger in the UK than in the US. They released “Our Time Now” in the UK in early April 2008, this was followed with promotion via Television appearances.

According to Billboard, the band is writing new songs. They will be recording in between festivals and shows in April - July 2008. The new album is expected to be released in October - November 2008, however a single will be released beforehand. Directcurrentmusic.com reports that the new, as yet untitled new album has an release date of September 23, 2008. The album is to be called Big Bad World. Songs that have been confirmed include “Natural Disaster”, “1, 2, 3, 4″, “Serious Mistake”, “Meet Me in California”, and “Big Bad World”. On July 23 the single “Natural Disaster” was leaked to P2P sites the following day. The whole album was leaked on “Sept 16,2008″ on torrent sites.

Check their Myspace

Or you want to download it but please just try, after you have this mp3 after 24 hours that will be you problem.

What is The Meteor? This mini-movie is an excuse to highlight visual effects in a movie-like scene. All we had was a deck of cards and nerdy glasses and the rest is history. Rather than shooting a single video clip with no context, we made a short movie that makes no sense. Besides we had nothing better to do. The other reason we made this was to tell you about our great products for Visual Effects & Motion Graphics. With your support we can keep making these horrible movies but more importantly, teach you great visual effects. Be sure to check them out!

Desktop wallpapers are always nice to look at and to draw inspiration from. They may provide with some fresh perspective and offer you some eye-candy for tedious coffee breaks. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts and wallpapers and present them to you, so you don’t need to search for them. As long as we find something beautiful, interesting or useful, we let you know in our posts. And now it’s time for some sweet wallpapers designer’s toolbox.

In this post we present more (really) stunning desktop wallpapers related to typography, photography, illustrations, HDR as well as some abstract and fantasy-related wallpapers. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting for his or her desktop. All wallpapers can be downloaded for free.

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