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davidairey.com — Video lesson from a standup comedian - who speaks the truth about Powerpoint
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- gutterboy, on 10/11/2007, -145/+39New Video - How to Fail as a Comedian- Doing bits on Powerpoint
- theRIAA, on 10/11/2007, -8/+378In school, whenever my Chem teacher has us make a power point (like every week), I always finish 1st, and he always come over and says something like "...okay, thats good, you have all the information... but how about adding some flashing text with different colors and fonts, and make things fly around"
- kidwithshirt, on 10/11/2007, -9/+149Bad graphics and ***** font
that's what powerpoint is about.
When it's project day in any of my high school class, bring a pillow - marjo9, on 10/11/2007, -22/+13cached...
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:m2knAbAtsAAJ:www.davidairey.com/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/+http://www.davidairey.com/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca&client=firefox-a - Wailord, on 10/11/2007, -11/+77http://www.davidairey.com.nyud.net:8080/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/
Cached. - ch0p57ickz, on 10/11/2007, -9/+260"New Video - How to Fail as a Comedian- Doing bits on Powerpoint"
and yet, Carlos Mencia will be seen doing a similar bit 2 weeks later - themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15I do #1 all the time
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -6/+25kidwithshirt, I agree...but once there was this dude, who was notorious for making unintentionally funny projects, who made a Powerpoint presentation with some whacked out anime characters and some hilarious dialogue. One animation consisted of a picture on top of another picture slightly revealing the picture underneath, and when the top picture went away it revealed a couple of characters that were nearly nude in some potentially gay scene. Man...I seriously never laughed so hard in my life...I wish I could have gotten a copy to upload somewhere.
- Spaceomega, on 10/11/2007, -17/+76I ***** hate PowerPoint.
- brickbat, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22You would be surprised how many top level executives do #1 - especially finance people.
- poopyfinger, on 10/11/2007, -75/+15That guy is what we comedians call "not ***** funny".
- gravis86, on 10/11/2007, -23/+86I've gotta say, even though I agree with him, it wasn't very funny. The man is a horrible comedian.
- Kookami, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Too true though. Forgot to mention the typewriter sound effect as the pile of dot points come out word at a time however, it'll either be that or the gunshot as each come up.
And kidwithshirt, it doesn't stop at high school, that there is a fair portion of my university lectures... - wastern, on 10/11/2007, -13/+20I don't need to do many powerpoint type presentations anymore, but when I do I've started to take lessons from Steve Jobs. I'll always watch one of his keynotes first. He seems to convey a lot with very little. He uses the slides to complement his speech rather then the other way around
With Powerpoint less is more - Gaylard, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8I'm pretty sure I saw him do this bit on Showtime at the Apollo.
- ggbs, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11direct link
http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf?m=1529637984&type=video - Fordi, on 10/11/2007, -5/+105@poopyfinger:
"That guy is what we comedians call 'not ***** funny'."
I laughed my ass off, as did his audience. 'Course, with a name like 'poopyfinger', I guess the highlight of your jokes are South Park ripoffs. - ilana, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8I spent three years at a defense firm and two years in grad school where - like it or not - PowerPoint was the presentation choice for engineers, non-engineers, professors, and students due in part to the assumption that we all use Microsoft and the software is therefore standard. I can't stand the stuff, but some managers and professors continue to enforce it.
I therefore sent it to the head of my grad school program in hopes that it could cut down on presentations that are exactly what this guy describes: wordy, over-graphicky, and shoot-yourself-in-the-skull annoying. Sometimes instead of only beating against the tide, it's worthwhile to share ideas that can make the ride with it more bearable. - psykiv, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6I've actually seen a few really good powerpoints. Granted, they were the extreme minority and were done by the entire marketing company at a big corporation with basically no budget for that kind of stuff, but still.
That being said, I've been guilty of #1 a few times. But when you're presenting in front of a class with an attention span of -2 seconds, thats the only way they'll even remotely remember even a word of what you say. - Mike89, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8"...okay, thats good, you have all the information... but how about adding some flashing text with different colors and fonts, and make things fly around"
+1, my business teacher ALWAYS used to do that. I prepared a proper presentation (although, I did do #1 simply because I was dropping business and didnt give a rats), and he's like "well it wasnt very exciting.." - glmory, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Powerpoint makes me want to cry. I have seen people who do better powerpoint presentations than blackboard ones. However in general people turn down the lights so low everyone falls asleep, meaning right from the start the odds are stacked against them.
Also, in science and engineering at least, I find the mistake he listed of too many graphs to be done by 90% of presenters. There is no way in hell I will understand 15 or 20 graphs in a presentation. Pick your most important details, and describe the rest without graphs or ignore them. - shaun1018, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I had a speech class where I had to prepare power points for class... She said that the only visual tool I could use was power point. So I embedded video clips full screen into power point... took me 15 minutes of explaining how it was in powerpoint and still technically legal via her stupid rules.
- mccrusc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Ok, I can't take it anymore... What's "number 1"??
I'm at work and can't open the video. I guess it's safe to assume "number 1" is not pissing...
though, I believe pissing could be an effective part of any successful power point presentation. It would be more entertaining than bouncing text. - M80mayhem, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0My professor does #1 all the time. It's annoying as hell - mostly because I pay a ***** ton of $$$ to go to school and the PP presentation is developed by the publisher.
- dhughes, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3@ mccrusc
"People tend to put every word they are going to say on every slide..."
He then shows a slide crammed with words of what he is talking about. - cr4ft, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Sites down: YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLpjrHzgSRM
- Konstantino, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I absolutely love the point about Times New Roman. That annoys the hell out of me!
- hANDoFdEVIL, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The science of diggs completely eludes me.
gutterboy posted, in effect, that the comedian sucked and he is at -95 diggs
gravis86 agreed with gutterboy and he is at +60 diggs.
herd mentality maybe? - poopyfinger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0@Fordi
Actually the poop on my finger is your mom's poop. She knows me as poopyfist. - wastern, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1>>I absolutely love the point about Times New Roman. That annoys the hell out of me!
I've had a lot of teachers require Times as the font to keep idiots from picking a font that isn't legible
I knew a CS teacher that would only allow Powerpoints with Times font, using black text on a white background, no pictures, etc. I'm glad I never had him, it sounded painful - surfing, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's funny because it's true
- theRIAA, on 10/11/2007, -8/+378In school, whenever my Chem teacher has us make a power point (like every week), I always finish 1st, and he always come over and says something like "...okay, thats good, you have all the information... but how about adding some flashing text with different colors and fonts, and make things fly around"
- tinker123, on 10/11/2007, -4/+77Powerpoint - modern word for "middle manager with ambition who has nothing to talk about, but wants to be seen and heard in a meeting"
- ZogDog, on 10/11/2007, -9/+38Times New Roman... you lazy bastages, change the default!
- floridiot2, on 10/11/2007, -11/+147I despise Times New Roman. Kind of like when you wake up late in the morning and you don't have time to take a shower so you rush to work and then you sit at your desk all day with swamp crotch. You toss and you turn but nothing will get rid of the feeling of your ass sticking to your underwear from day old sweat. And oh God, you go to the bathroom and you can just smell Hades' pot boiling. Kind of like that.
- kidwithshirt, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40I feel you bro.
12 point single space, times new roman is like on the standard HS curriculum.
Even stupid vista calibri is better - JC4P, on 10/11/2007, -2/+103hey calibri is pretty good.
- NeoRicen, on 10/11/2007, -1/+66Calibri is much nicer on the eyes.
- kidwithshirt, on 10/11/2007, -10/+23I guess i didnt make myself clear, calibri is pretty good
but only on vista though. Calibri looks like a bad comic san on xp - iluvdrbonner, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44Verdana FTW!
- daza, on 10/11/2007, -3/+40A typeface will look identical no matter what OS it is. How does Calibri look different on XP compared to Vista?
Oh and, thank God they changed the default to Calibri in Office 2007. Now all these lazy teachers will be forced to using something decent. - BigFloppy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Mmm.... Helvetica...
- zybch, on 10/11/2007, -7/+62What about Comic Sans? Thats pretty cool right? Right.....
- cyberfelon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13"Calibri looks like a bad comic san on xp"
The quality of the font has nothing to do with the OS. Turn on ClearType - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx
Also, are you implying Comic Sans *isn't* bad? - ckSubs, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Is cleartype on by default in Vista? I know it's not in XP... so that guy probably doesn't know how to turn it on. Because without cleartype Calibri looks like ass.
I'm not really a fan of the sans-serifs though, at least not printed. Times New Roman looks infinitely better on actual paper than Calibri et al. Maybe not for web-based pages or whatever, but I hate typing in the new stuff in Office 2007.
- Fordi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Gill Sans, Garamond, and Luxi Sans Mono. Do that ***** with some class.
- Shando, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@cksubs (#7043330)
Yes, it is on by default - mV0G7, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20I think Comic Sans is a middle-aged woman thing. My mom uses Comic Sans waaaay to much.
- smspence, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Helvetica and Garamond trump all.
- Laxaloot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5@mV0G7
www.bancomicsans.com - violencejack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5all the work i complete is times new roman.
i guess he is right cause i am extremely lazy and refuse to put effort into changing the default. - worthone, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I think comic sans is satan's gift to humanity.
- jplevel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The old manager of my department used to write all of our policies in comic sans, talk about annoying..
- M80mayhem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Only on Digg can I interact with people rooting for their favorite font. Awesome!
BTW Levenim MT rules!!! - mattprice, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@daza (#7042957)
5 years from now maybe, once the school systems update. I'm pretty sure a lot of school systems can't afford to update Office versions each time a new one comes out. - newJxE, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Don't forget about that sweet font Papyrus...
- Memitim, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I'm a big fan of Garamond but I kind of wore myself out on it so I typically go with Trebuchet MS; gotta love a font named after a killing device. I actually like the Calibri font, at least as far as an alternative to Times New Roman. But then Wingdings is a preferable alternative to Times New Roman.
- defectDS, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Helvetica Neue Light. 'Nuff said.
- mV0G7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=2867
Bad Mofo = Best. Font. Ever.
- TheJLab, on 10/11/2007, -17/+1 -"Don't quit your day job"
-"I did, this comedy thing is all I have now" - gmprunner, on 10/11/2007, -38/+2Isn't PowerPoint a rifle attachment?
Or am I thinking of archery?- VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -22/+5I'm gonna PowerPoint your HEAD if you don't shutup
I don't even know what that means - spacefreak, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Personally, I don't think anybody who doesn't know what PowerPoint is should be allowed to use Digg. Even if you are just joking.
- VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -22/+5I'm gonna PowerPoint your HEAD if you don't shutup
- thenumber8, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1wow really slow already
- mmmnoodles, on 10/11/2007, -34/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
man, that went down fast.- mozzep, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40why would you give a link to duggmirror when it didnt' catch it? it's just a waste of time for people to click it.
- kidwithshirt, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4didnt catch it
- CMiYC, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Why link to duggmirror?
To save someone else the hassle. I'd imagine most people search the listing for "duggmirror" and click on it. If no one links to it, then the person might try posting to duggmirror to see if it works for them self.
- SpoonMachine, on 10/11/2007, -9/+18That was kind of really horrible.
- fubuvsfitch, on 10/11/2007, -25/+10I agree. Dude makes obvious jokes that aren't even funny. That audience must have been drunk. Or Christian.
- zybch, on 10/11/2007, -17/+7Or just typical americans.
- fubuvsfitch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Geez man, xenocentric much?
- Pootle4rthur, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I must have missed something, as there were members of the audience whooping their hearts out and cheering at the smallest and most feeble gag. How that can be called a stand up routine is beyond me.
He made a few reasonable points about powerpoint use, but to pretend it was entertaining, or funny is just fibbing - colifis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6They were probably a bunch of corporate types attending a boring all-day offsite meeting. Believe me, after 8 hours of stale boring business crap, you'd laugh at anything even the slightest bit funny.
- metaphysical, on 10/11/2007, -11/+76They're right. Here's how to use PowerPoint:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk- zulfy26, on 10/11/2007, -12/+3....
- myt29, on 10/11/2007, -15/+5It stopped being funny when he said "Chicken" the tenth time. The audience sound like an annoying laugh track.
- Jibberwalk, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23That was awesome. I wouldn't have dugg this, if it wasn't for that.
Did that make sense? ... Yeah, I didn't think so either.
@myt
It kept being funny because he never left "Chicken." When it sounded like he was catching his breath, and was finally going to break character... he didn't --- which to led more laughs.
I dunno... I just found it to be a riot. - bboySNO, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3I think the joke might be from this comic strip:
http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc072.gif - Grimboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1bboySNO's link has hotlinking banned (ie referrer checking). Follow the link from http://plif.andkon.com/archive/arch1996.htm if you want to see it.
- kaytrio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1:-D Chicken chicken chicken :P chicken ;-)
chicken chicken, chicken.... chicken!!!!!! - proghead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1when he brought the presentation back up to answer the question, i literally stood up and applauded!
- kevin1987, on 10/11/2007, -12/+2@mmmnoodles, thanks for the useless link. Next time at least check to see if it was mirrored, kthxbye.
- Ozzy73, on 10/11/2007, -11/+3How to post in the wrong section of digg: http://digg.com/software/How_NOT_to_use_Powerpoint_2
- Kinjiru, on 10/11/2007, -20/+2Powerpoint is such useless crap I'm suprised anyone is actually installing that *****.
- pksynths, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Ever try to get a CEO to use Flash??
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11PowerPoint isn't useless at all. Unfortunately most of the presentations given in PowerPoint are, but you shouldn't blame the software for that. It's kind of like blaming C++ rather than the programmer for a poorly written program.
- duddy, on 10/11/2007, -10/+10This made the front page?! How?!
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+34http://www.digg.com/how
- drakino, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidairey.com%2Fhow-not-to-use-powerpoint%2F&btnG=Search
I've seen him live, was actually pretty amusing. - Moriya, on 10/11/2007, -10/+5Ugh, business humor. It may be true, but it sure ain't funny.
- FatBird19, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16The reason business humor is funny is because when you spend 8+ hours a day 5 days a week dealing with the same grindingly-obnoxious crap constantly, it's a breath of fresh air when someone makes fun of it. It's comedy out of desperation, and it's the same reason windows jokes are funny.
- itsme92, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Not just business humor. High School humor as well, I have to watch so many of these in school
- rally1, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Umm it is mirrored by Google Cache etc that is linked on the duggmirror page. Learn to read more than the first line.
- punkisnotdead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Ha! As a grad student who has to sit through dozens of these kinds of presentations a year, I found it pretty amusing.
- Requi3m10, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0Not bad, I do get the feel of how crappy PP can be
But then again, its not like theres really much else to use for most people - DavisCollins, on 10/11/2007, -11/+34*prepares to be buried*
Just use Keynote!- Jibberwalk, on 10/11/2007, -8/+44Different clothes, same evil.
- DavisCollins, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25@jibberwalk
True, but at least Keynote doesn't start you off with crap [templates]. Its up to you to make it look horrible. - radmarshallb, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15It's actually kind of odd how Keynote encourages you to make good looking slides. I've had friends who would use PowerPoint and make the exact keynote described in the video make much better looking stuff when using Keynote.
- kodek, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2It's cause of the 3d animations :/
- edcheng, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Why is it that so many people who say that get dugg up??
- Fordi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26The tool being used isn't the thing causing the bad presentations. It's the tool using it.
- EntropyFan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4@radmarshallb
I' gonna call you on that BS. I have used and been tortured by both extensively. Keynote is the exact same tool PowerPoint is. It doesn't look prettier, it doesn't work better. There is not 'magic' in it that makes a better presentation.
You wind up with the same idiot reading the slides word for word, wasting your time when they could have just emailed you the damn thing instead. - KingBabi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1He didn't mention the dreaded rainbow-effect backgrounds with black text that doesn't show up.
And the templates on PowerPoint 2007 are actually pretty cool. They actually look well designed. - bedouin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"It's actually kind of odd how Keynote encourages you to make good looking slides. I've had friends who would use PowerPoint and make the exact keynote described in the video make much better looking stuff when using Keynote."
Keynote's export to PowerPoint feature is nice, and generally accurate. If you absolutely must end up with a product with .ppt at the end, but can't stand PowerPoint, Keynote is the way to go. KeyNote's export to QT feature comes in very handy when you need to insert slides into a video project; I think PP can do that too though . . .
- ToKnow, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24I agree, some people still write too much on each slide. After all, it's called PowerPoint, not PowerParagraph.
- ajchavar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8nothing bothers me more when people read off their huge grafs from a ppt. goddamn it people its for your audience not for you, buy some freaking notecards, or bring a laptop. wait, even better, how about have some familiarity with what youre presenting and the whole damn thing will go better.
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6You don't even need to use note cards. Learn to use presenters mode. It lets you have all your notes and presentation controls on your computer screen while just the presentation gets shown on the projector.
- strossos, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Aside from being about the most terribly boring subject ever, I thought the
"second and third order effects"
line was amusing.
I even chuckled. - eddy144, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2possibly the easiest crowd in the history of stand up comedy?
- zybch, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Nah, just very very very drunk and doped up on vallium.
- zephc, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1I saw him at Rooster T Feathers once - pretty funny dude, did the whole standup thing with powerpoint.
Dugg. - zabouth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40And if you use comic sans i hope you die horribly very very soon
- radmarshallb, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3Amen.
- bryceman111, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1In my classes at high school, every other student seems to believe that the ocean background works for everything! Especially when it is in no way related to the project they were asked to do. And the typewriter sound? Never helpful.
- appleswitch, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidairey.com%2Fhow-not-to-use-powerpoint%2F&btnG=Search
- TheCheeks, on 10/11/2007, -12/+4Thank you Apple and your Keynote program. SO much better than Powerpoint in both functionality and looks.
- rssej, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2agreed.
- LaSepultura, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15After watching this video I immediately changed the Times New Roman font on my resume.
Maybe that's why I still have a ***** job.- zybch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11You only changed it just now?? Wow!
- fastbastard, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19how about a "How to link directly to a video and not a crappy blog that will crash"
the direct video link: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1529637984- tdowling, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10crappy blog...myspace...crappy blog...myspace. It appears that the only winning move is not to play.
- inara23, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8So true. The worst has got to be people who write out their whole speech on the slides. Invariably, you can read faster than the person stuttering and sweating up at the podium, and then you have to keep yourself from standing up and yelling "Talk faster dammit!"
Also, isn't the default powerpoint font Arial? - deleuex, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Dugg because every "powerpoint buff" in our company does every one of these
- skealoha86, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Here's the reason that this was genious.
Corporate comedy is bland by definition; they pick people that aren't edgy so as not to offend anybody in the corporate audience from the hot-shot sales guys to the mailroom clerks to the liberal IT people to the conservative multi-millionaire Execs.
So this guy gets publicity on Digg where lots of hot-shot techy kids are grabbing middle management positions at tech-related firms and making suggestions to their bosses about the next guest for the next company meeting... he could have made at least 20 calls for corporate gigs from this, paying $10,000+ each.
Smart move good sir... - abhiroop, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4I've found an interesting use for powerpoint. If I need to do some basic photo editing, I've found that powerpoint is actually quite a simple yet powerful tool. Of course it does not have nearly as much stuff as photoshop but you do get quite a lot of cool stuff like cropping, 3d effects, and watermark. If I need to change something around a bit I genereally use powerpoint (well now I actually use openoffice).
As for presentations I generally dislike them in general, I find them very difficult to follow, i.e. if someone is watching a presentation they're not giving me 100% attention which can really be annoying. I think the best presentation I've ever seen is from my girlfriend. The background was black with red text (easy on the eyes), the text on each page was just key points, and it was followed by some pictures, it was about a book so naturally it didn't have any graphs, or anything, and it was really easy to read. - kfconme, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3funny... yet the single most geek filled stand-up I've seen.
- Millsee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Good points made there.
God knows why people were laughing though. They were wetting their pants at everything he said. Weird. - nreisan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1i wouldve hate to have paid to have seen that guy
anyone who is computer savvy and not a reject wouldnt make a crap tastic power point like that anyway
even tho i do agree with his points - smacksaw, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4I taught Powerpoint (and Office) for years, and I always encouraged people to use Times New Roman.
Weird fonts put people off. TNR is one we see every day - subconsciously we identify it or similar fonts easily.
Lots of people use Arial or sans serif fonts for blocks of text. That is not good. You want serif fonts like TNR for lines of text since the little feet/serifs keep the eye on TRACK like a train on a track? Like TRACKING?
For PPoint it's not such a big of a deal, and in fact using headers and titles with a sans serif font is good since they are slightly harder to read they stand out a bit more and you want those things to be catchy.
Still, you are doing lots of other things to grab people's attention. Doing the font is overkill like all of his bullet points. It's better to make things clean, crisp and clear - easy to digest and then use other things to dazzle people. The contrast from the norm to the different is what makes an impact. If everything is "different" nothing stands out.- Foamator, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Don't encourage Times New Roman. It's fugly.
- Linh, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1geez, way to over analyze... it's called.. a "joke"
- shawnz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I finally realize why they used such an ugly, awful font as the default for so long.
- pleasureman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7that is sooooo spot on for my boss' presentations....
- gerrycurl, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0was it just me or was he just not that funny... and i'm drunk now!!
- HiFlyerAu, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0No, it's called xenophobic.
And anyway, aren't you the pot calling the kettle black? What's this about Christian audiences? - beachian, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1that was dull to say the least. good points but i felt like i was in high school computer class or something.
- whiteyalltheway, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0wow i was actually at that exact skit and i can't believe it was actually him when i clicked on the link...only people laughing in the audience were the older folk...unbelievable
- vhtrading, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3True dat.
- joecomputerdude, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2HAWTLW
- Archos, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Seth Godin's really bad powerpoint: http://soulive.tistory.com/attachment/bk20.pdf
- spillingvoid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2best ever
- ycohain, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6reminds me of this cartoon in the new yorker a few years ago...
http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/PowerPointTorture.jpg - bencefeher, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1WOW. I graduated from a new charter high school in Pittsburgh and from day one we are all given laptops. We make powerpoints left and right; from the first time we open up our machines we are told the 7-7 rule. No more than 7 sentences with no more than 7 words per sentence--and God forbid using animations and sounds...
- jonnyboy1544, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1This still rates as the best PowerPoint presentation I have ever seen. It's worth a look:
http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/- boardsurfer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1That's, uhhh, not Powerpoint.
- jonnyboy1544, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Uhhh yes it is. And it's more about the presentation style *****.
- therealfoz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3It's Keynote.. and yes.. it's awesome
- szekelya, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Agree. He is a great presenter, and his slide-ware is unique and gorgeous.
- matt95z, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I like Tahoma, like anyone here actually care.
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