"What makes good engineers good at product design is the same thing that makes them good at engineering. They feel for the boundaries of what the code and the product allows them to do and stop at those boundaries.
Another name for being able to understand and plan for affordances, either through good product intuition, or experience, or both, in the real world is mechanical sympathy.
Mechanical sympathy was initially coined in referring to Formula 1 racecar handling"
"As unlikely as it seems, potatoes were first grown in the Peruvian Highlands where few crops grow, and fueled the Inca Empire, which propagated and consumed over 150 species.
Even more unlikely: the plant came from deadly nightshade vines which were initially poisonous if not consumed with clay, an innovation first discovered by grazing llamas and copied by the Incas."
"BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet.
It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world.
Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds.
You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded.
Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together."
Kohei Nagase is a prodigy special effects artist. He and his friend Shingo Kannazuki, a gifted stuntman, form a special effects company called 'Studio Gimmick'. They do freelance work for various Japanese studios. Often Kohei's makeup skills and Shingo's fighting strength are called in to fight crime.
The CIA released a "Reading Improvement Course" that had been hidden from the public since 1955.
'The objective of the Reading Improvement Course is to improve job efficiency by increasing the employee's reading ability.'
Gochujang Burgers, kimchi bacon jam is a 10/10 â smoky, sweet, tangy, and just a little bit spicy. As weird as it sounds, (add) a slice of gouda cheese
We finally have an answer to "Does Nokia's internal holy grail of ringtones still exist?".
Unfortunately, Microsoft deleted them when transferring Nokia data to HMD Global upon the sale in 2016.
Movies still come on Blu-ray, music is still pressed on vinyl and books still fill store shelves. But as Sony moves to phase out physical PlayStation releases, many gamers are asking why video games should be the first major entertainment medium to go all digital.
Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlanticâs August issue, rosehorowitch explores the reading collapseâand its effects on civilization
Cartoon - Moon Girl, a gifted African-American girl who lives a double life as a superheroine and accidentally brings Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York.
Interactive ice cream generator to promo a new album (yeonjun's no labels pt 2) from HYBE.
Choose the ice cream, add toppings, hear stripped-down instrumental teasers of different tracks and generate a custom ice cream combo.
TinyRetroPad - A working, Notepad-style Windows text editor in roughly 2.5 KB.
Compiles with: MASM and Crinkler.
TinyRetroPad is a fork of Dave's Tiny Editor (DTE) by Matt Power, which is itself an extension of tiny.asm HelloAssembly by Dave Plummer. The original goal was a working windowed text editor in the sub-1KB category; TinyRetroPad keeps that minimalist, size-obsessed spirit while filling out a full Notepad-style menu set (File / Edit / Format / View / Help) on top of it
A trailer was released alongside the launch of GodFinger on June 7, 2010. GodFinger was removed from the App Store on February 1, 2013. The service for this app ceased, and it became unusable on March 31, 2013.
Thank God It's Friday is a 1978 American musical comedy film directed by Robert Klane (in his directorial debut) and produced by Motown Productions and Casablanca FilmWorks for Columbia Pictures.
Produced at the height of the disco craze, the film features the Commodores performing "Too Hot ta Trot" and Donna Summer performing "Last Dance", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1978
Sal Mineo.
Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939 â February 12, 1976) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the coming-of-age drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at age 17, making him the fifth-youngest nominee in the category.
The first major anime widely discussed as pioneering the specific "early 2000s digital look" is Makoto Shinkai's "Voices of a Distant Star" (2002). It was one of the first mainstream projects produced, colored, and composited entirely on a computer by a single person, establishing the decade's signature sharp lines and digital lighting
Vancouver will host the FIFA World Cup matches at BC Place for approximately four weeks. The tournament features seven matches in the city running from June 13 to July 7, 2026, with widespread city celebrations continuing until the global tournament ends.
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Browse the IKEA catalogue 2011, with products and interiors popular at the time. Explore and let yourself be surprised and inspired by life at home 2011.
About
The Winamp Skin Museum is an attempt to build a fast, searchable, and shareable, interface for the collection of Winamp Skins amassed on the Internet Archive.
Features:
Infinite scroll preview images
Experience skins with integrated Webamp
Fast search of indexed readme.txt texts
Made by Jordan Eldredge
Want Winamp on your Windows PC, but with supported updates & new features? Try WACUP
Antonio Vivaldi wrote The Four Seasons around 1718â1720, publishing them in 1725 as part of a 12-concerto set.
Despite his superstar status during his lifetime, Vivaldi died in poverty in 1741, and his music was entirely forgotten for nearly 200 years.
The 1926 Rediscovery: A massive treasure trove of original, handwritten Vivaldi manuscriptsâincluding The Four Seasonsâwas unearthed in a monastery in Turin, Italy. The collection was cataloged by musicologist Alberto Gentili.
The quintessential spring morning song played by an orchestra in cartoons is "Morning Mood" (from the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1) by Edvard Grieg. This iconic flute-led piece is universally used in animation to score sunny sunrises, waking up, and nature springing to life
Introducing Instants â for sharing in the moment
On May 13, Instagram is launching Instants, a new way to share in the moment â with spontaneous, unfiltered photosâ with friends. Instants are ephemeral to viewers, but are saved in your archive for up to a year and can be reshared as a recap to Stories. Friends can react and reply, with replies going straight to DMs
Love & Hate (Michael Kiwanuka album)
Love & Hate is the second studio album by London-based singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka. The album was released on 15 July 2016 by Polydor Records in the UK.
Cooling centres
Community centres and library branches with air-conditioned spaces are available throughout the year during regular operating hours. Some facilities will extend opening hours during a heat event.
You don't need to register, pay, or show identification to visit a cooling centre. Seating, water, and access to washrooms are available at these locations.
Where to keep cool in Vancouver
Use our map to find cooling centres, misting stations, spray parks, wading pools, and more.
On this page you'll find the full FIFA World Cup 2026âą schedule, including all match fixtures, dates and venues, plus live results from the games played across 16 host cities in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
The FIFA World Cup is happening in Vancouver starting this weekend, can you believe it? On top of hosting matches for the largest tournament on the globe, there are still concerts, family events, workshops, farmers markets, shows, films, festivals, walks, and more fun things happening around Vancouver
BioShock Infinite: You play as Booker DeWitt, a private investigator sent to a floating steampunk city to rescue a mysterious young woman named Elizabeth. The revelation of their actual relationship is one of the most famous twists in gaming.
An auteur (/oÊËtÉËr/; French: [otĆÊ], lit.â'author') is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose control is so unbounded, the director becomes the "author" of each film, and can manifest a personal style, vision, and thematic focus across a diverse body of work
Hideo Kojima (ć°ćł¶ ç§ć€«, Kojima Hideo) is a Japanese video game designer.
He is best known for the Metal Gear franchise, which remains his most famous and acclaimed work, as well as Death Stranding and its sequel.
His games are noted for being highly cinematic, the result of a passion for film and literature which began during his childhood, and he is regarded as a pioneering auteur of video games.
"One of the largest franchisees in the U.S. is bringing Pizza Hut back to its retro glory days by revamping dozens of its locations, part of a larger overall push toward classic Pizza Huts."
