Your moment of Zen
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LOL! Very common. Maybe clip art would help ;-)
Posted by: jessy | September 28, 2006 at 01:44 PM
Oh, yes!
I like how he's reading...
That's Zen
Posted by: Cristián Frenkel | September 28, 2006 at 03:07 PM
The translation is just as good as the visual presentation.
Posted by: Durf | September 28, 2006 at 03:26 PM
Hahaha - very good - the connecting headline. You made my day, thanks.
Posted by: Gerold Braun | September 28, 2006 at 04:04 PM
What a great slide, does anyone know who designed it? I could do with thier help ;)
Posted by: Richard Michie | September 28, 2006 at 04:48 PM
He's using an apple laptop, so it's probably a limitation of keynote ;)
Posted by: Andrej | September 28, 2006 at 05:11 PM
A good example for emphasizing your principles.
Posted by: Balaji M | September 28, 2006 at 06:34 PM
Ill, I actually feel ill. I had people give me lectures like this previously. I am currently on a mission at work to bannish all clip art from presentation and have either flickr supported or taking our own decent images.
Posted by: M | September 28, 2006 at 07:20 PM
This is my first comment. Thanks for making my dat Garr!
Posted by: J | September 28, 2006 at 09:53 PM
I just wanted to say that that presentation looks positively brutal! As someone who's had to endure my fair share of the same punishment, I really feel sorry for all the people sitting in that room.
Posted by: RisingSunofNihon | September 28, 2006 at 10:10 PM
That's a good presentation according to what I was taught in one of my senior college classes.
Yellow on blue has a lot of contrast and is easy to read, the sans-serif fonts are easy to read from the back of the room, and there's no clutter.
All the presentations I saw in this class looked like this one. Strangely, half the room slept through them.
*shudder*
-=Russ=-
Posted by: Russ | September 28, 2006 at 10:54 PM
LOL
Blue background + yellow and small fonts
I can read more fast than that guy.
Posted by: Carlos Caicedo | September 29, 2006 at 01:37 AM
That's fantastic. It's slidumentation!!
Posted by: Moses T | September 29, 2006 at 04:34 AM
Has this by any change gone through Google Translate! Woohoo, now we finally what the Chinese are thinking...
Posted by: Douwe | October 05, 2006 at 07:10 AM
Andrej, I couldn't help pointing out that it looks like he is using the weird little orange laptop—almost certainly Windows ;) The Apple laptop looks like it belongs to the guy who has his head bowed in what is obviously sorrow at the Windows-guy's presentation!
Posted by: hotsauce | October 15, 2006 at 08:36 AM
I understand that Keynote 4/iWork 07 will deploy an "automator" tool to electronically prevent slides like this from being created in Keynote. Authors who attempt it will experience a "kernel failure" and be forced to restart their computer. KN5 will expand this punishment to include an electric shock delivered through the keyboard's "e" key.
Anyway, the speaker here is NOT the Mac guy. The speaker (well, reader actually) is using some funky orange thing.
Posted by: Dean Baird | October 26, 2006 at 02:33 AM
Yikes! Soooo painful to see!
Posted by: Heidi Miller | October 26, 2006 at 03:48 AM