Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking | Psyche Ideas
This explains rubber ducking.
Speaking out loud is not only a medium of communication, but a technology of thinking: it encourages the formation and processing of thoughts.
This explains rubber ducking.
Speaking out loud is not only a medium of communication, but a technology of thinking: it encourages the formation and processing of thoughts.
You know how donating blood is a really good thing to do? Well, now you also donate your voice.
This is quite impressive—you edit the audio file by editing the transcript!
Remember: life is ten per cent what happens to you, ten per cent how you respond to it, and eighty per cent how good your reflexes are when the Tall Ones come at your throat with their pincers.
A speech given by Isaac Asimov on the future of humanity in space.
A blog of all the best bits of Radio 4.
The text of Mark Pesce's excellent presentation at Web Directions South.
Scott Adams lost the ability to speak but by hacking his brain through the use of rhyme, regained it again. Paging Dr. Sachs, paging Dr. Pinker.
Former Doctor Who actor Tom Baker is to be the voice of a talking text message service for three months.
Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech
Audio from Reboot 7. Ben Hammersley, Cory Doctorow and more.