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It seems like magic when some new gadget seems to know what we want before we know ourselves. But why does some design feel intrinsically good, and why do some designs last forever, while others disappear? User Friendly guides listeners through the hidden rules governing how design shapes our behaviour, told through fascinating stories such as what the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island reveals about the logic of the smartphone; and how the pressures of the Great Depression and World War II created our faith in social progress through better product design....

A lonely man gets more than he bargained for after ordering a hand-in-a-can from an old magazine.

In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this audiobook unpacks the ways in which the world has been - and continues to be - remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.

The Podlie Podcast is a Podcast that talks about anything and everything. Tune in for a fun listen!

Four friends, brothers Bill and Ryan, plus their two lifelong friends, Charlie and Danny, take their annual fishing trip on Lake Michigan during the fall salmon season. It's a trip they have taken for the last six years. It has proven to be great fun for the four young men, but this year, things will be different. In their wandering about the lake, they discover an old ferry that appears to be abandoned. This chance encounter changes their annual excursion from a fun-filled, male bonding experience, into a race to the safety of shore.

Carter Glenn is a young man in his late twenties who has returned home to seek revenge for a crime committed against him 20 years ago. As an eight-year-old boy, he was nearly beaten to death by a gang of teenage boys because they were bored and he was easy prey. Convinced he is on a mission from God, Carter sets out to excise his demons by killing the members of the gang and the old woman who could have saved him but instead chose to deliver him to hell.

They dressed as beasts, draping fur over their chainmail clad bodies, while wearing iron helmets with animal heads attached over the top. They used huge broad swords or large heavy clubs to subdue their victims, often slaughtering whole villages for a few gold coins. Their arsenal of weapons included swords, spears, axes, clubs, bows and arrows, and fire.They were the scourge of the coastal inhabitants of Europe. They were Norsemen, they were the Vikings.

Tyler Stone is about to be divorced and is unwilling to start over so he devises what he believes is the perfect murder. He knows perfection is in the details but so is the Devil as he's about to be reminded. There is no such thing as the perfect murder. Mistakes are common place. Everyone makes them. The trick is not to make that Fatal Mistake, the one that gets you caught.

Conch Republic takes us into the world of Nate Nevwas, a crime-fighting oaf with a loveable nature. Follow Nate as he fights crime, writes novels and takes a liking to the ladies. Follow Nate as he goes to war with the mob and discovers gold hidden under the seas of the Florida Keys....