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Edward Tufte Talks information Design
BoredStiff writes "The Weekend Edition of NPR ran a story on Edward Tufte — the outspoken critic of PowerPoint presentations — he has been described by The New York Times as "The Leonardo da Vinci of Data." Since 1993, thousands have attended his day-long seminars on Information Design. Tufte's most recent book is filled with hundreds of illustrations that demonstrate one concept: good design is timeless, while bad design can be a matter of life and death."
whilst I was a first year at uni all my lecturers put together power points and they were available online, it was brialliant compared to what we got last year; word documents. Word makes presentations to a standard so low you'd be shocked and bored more than you ever thought possible.
Compaired to Word, power point is a feast for the eyes!
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
Gettysburg address in powerpoint: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Keynote, PowerPoint, or any other tool in the hands of the average human being could be catastrophic.
...In other news today GM announced it would include new dashboard functionality to make on the go changes to their new line of trucks. Drivers will now be able to inflate their tires to monster truck level instantaneously, add multiple high beam lights to their roll bars at no extra cost, display gun racks and fishing poles, whistle "dixie" with their horn...
I should meet this guy, I regard myself as the Vincent Van Goch of data. There's nothing quite like a bottle of absinthe to help you put an artistic spin on that backup copy.
myspace page?
Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime... -- Machiavelli
9) when relying on windows PC, print out the slides also, and have them available to hand out.
Don't forget this classic from The Onion.
GMD
watch this
Wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning 'fast' or 'quick', so it does at least partly describe the function of the software. You might complain that not everyone is familiar with Hawaaian words, but then not everyone is familiar with baseball terminology from which you derived "BullPen". Open source software tends to have a very cross-cultural, cross-language audience. Do you suggest that projects rename themselves for each language they target? Projects are named for marketing purposes, to be memorable and appealing. It sounds very much like you just hate the idea of marketing, so I will rename you CrankyBastard, which I think we can all agree is memorable, appealing and accurately describes you!
"It's Dot Com!"
Have they an updated version of the Genesis chapter ready yet?
Who the fuck modded this intresting? This is the reason we need more people to metamodderate... not that people really do a good job of that either. Fucking slashdot fags.
American Express. Founded 1850. Wells, Fargo, the Butterfield Stage. Money Orders 1882, Travelers Checks 1891. Travel Agencies 1915. Charge Cards 1958 Do you see a pattern forming here?