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- 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"
- 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 - 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 - 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.
- JC4P, on 10/11/2007, -2/+103hey calibri is pretty good.
- 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. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+78Powerpoint - modern word for "middle manager with ambition who has nothing to talk about, but wants to be seen and heard in a meeting"
- Wailord, on 10/11/2007, -11/+77http://www.davidairey.com.nyud.net:8080/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/
Cached. - NeoRicen, on 10/11/2007, -1/+66Calibri is much nicer on the eyes.
- metaphysical, on 10/11/2007, -11/+76They're right. Here's how to use PowerPoint:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk - 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.
- Spaceomega, on 10/11/2007, -17/+76I ***** hate PowerPoint.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+62What about Comic Sans? Thats pretty cool right? Right.....
- iluvdrbonner, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44Verdana FTW!
- zabouth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40And if you use comic sans i hope you die horribly very very soon
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -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. - 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 - 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.
- Jibberwalk, on 10/11/2007, -8/+44Different clothes, same evil.
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+34http://www.digg.com/how
- ZogDog, on 10/11/2007, -9/+38Times New Roman... you lazy bastages, change the default!
- Fordi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26The tool being used isn't the thing causing the bad presentations. It's the tool using it.
- DavisCollins, on 10/11/2007, -11/+34*prepares to be buried*
Just use Keynote! - 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.
- 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. - 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.
- BigFloppy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Mmm.... Helvetica...
- 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. - mV0G7, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20I think Comic Sans is a middle-aged woman thing. My mom uses Comic Sans waaaay to much.
- 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 - brickbat, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22You would be surprised how many top level executives do #1 - especially finance people.
- 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... - 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.
- pksynths, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Ever try to get a CEO to use Flash??
- 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. - M80mayhem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Only on Digg can I interact with people rooting for their favorite font. Awesome!
BTW Levenim MT rules!!! - 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 - fubuvsfitch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Geez man, xenocentric much?
- 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? - Fordi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Gill Sans, Garamond, and Luxi Sans Mono. Do that ***** with some class.
- 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.
- 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.
- themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15I do #1 all the time
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11You only changed it just now?? Wow!
- tdowling, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10crappy blog...myspace...crappy blog...myspace. It appears that the only winning move is not to play.
- ggbs, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11direct link
http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf?m=1529637984&type=video - SpoonMachine, on 10/11/2007, -9/+18That was kind of really horrible.
- 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? - 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.
- 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 -
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