Comments on: The only presentation tool you will ever need.

The only presentation tool you will ever need.

23 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:20:34 -0800

presentations suck
let's automate them
hooray

By: clearly

clearly — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:35:33 -0800

It's meant as a joke--OR IS IT??? It has to be a joke, unless I'm overlooking the options for comic sans and star wipes

By: zippy

zippy — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:41:33 -0800

I feel dirty for making this.

By: Talez

Talez — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:43:43 -0800

Burma-shave?

By: Cyclopsis Raptor

Cyclopsis Raptor — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:57:31 -0800

Doesn't work in opera Thanks for nothing java sucks

By: mazola

mazola — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:08:16 -0800

Pure nonsense. Which is to say, a suitable replacement for many presentations.

By: book 'em dano

book 'em dano — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:09:17 -0800

Yep, that about sums up all the powerpoints we had to do in junior high and high school.

By: unliteral

unliteral — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:10:05 -0800

Well, that was unexpected!

By: zippy

zippy — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:30:28 -0800

Well, that was unexpected! Something something posted to the brown?

By: dagosto

dagosto — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:35:52 -0800

It did a great job summarizing my evening.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:50:32 -0800

awww.

By: rh

rh — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:51:18 -0800

Your browser doesn't support the features required by impress.js, so you are presented with a simplified version of this presentation. For the best experience please use the latest Chrome, Safari or Firefox browser. So it's like the marquee tag and blink tag all over again? What is impress.js? It's a presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers and inspired by the idea behind prezi.com. In laymans terms, yes.

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:55:07 -0800

Whenever I see the word "hooray", I expect it to be crossed out. I blame Pokey.

By: lollusc

lollusc — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:02:13 -0800

On my monitor, all but the tiniest left-hand sliver of the resulting presentation appears off-screen to the right, with no scroll bar to let me get to it. Almost more frustrating than it would be if the thing was totally broken :(

By: lollusc

lollusc — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:04:10 -0800

Or, you know, I just didn't read the bit where it says "Press right/left to navigate the presentation". GAH.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:05:10 -0800

You have to press right-arrow to move to the next slide. (Took me a bit to find that also.)

By: zippy

zippy — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:56:44 -0800

Four score and seven years ago ...

By: niccolo

niccolo — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:30:33 -0800

I noted this quote: "It's a presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers" The power, the extraordinary power of transforms and transitions. All the fuel, the energy, the commitment, the passion, transformed by the auto generated slideshows of the future. My browsers: IE10 Firefox Beta - Does not work Maybe, to consume these powers of transformation and transition I should install a "modern", rather than "future" browser?

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:36:31 -0800

Why do people write stuff in that style that's all terse lowercase and linebreaks? Do they think it makes them look cool or something?

By: Iteki

Iteki — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:38:21 -0800

I made this one, which was so good that I was like MAGIC!. So I called over the mrs and we put in stuff that she could actually make a work presentation about. What it handed back was less and less apropriate as the presentation went on, culminating in a picture of a child groping a womans naked ass-cheek. Take that one to work there, hon.

By: psoas

psoas — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:18:33 -0800

Manifesto

By: jklaiho

jklaiho — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:22:18 -0800

Probably best if you don't have one slide consist of the words "oh, ok" when playing around with this. At least at work. Not the first image I would have expected.

By: kcds

kcds — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:24:56 -0800

As a friend of mine pointed out a while back, "A deck of slides is not a presentation. You are the presentation." A good presenter uses a slide deck to provide visual punctuation, explain things graphically (without having to draw them from scratch), and summarize key points. Everything else about the presentation should come from the presenter. That said, with the right topic, I see no reason why this "joke" shouldn't actually work just fine as the backdrop in the hands of a skilled presenter.

By: headnsouth

headnsouth — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:44:13 -0800

It figured out where I'm going tonight in slide 3.

By: TheNewWazoo

TheNewWazoo — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:16:12 -0800

Man, this thing is deep

By: Mayor West

Mayor West — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:16:15 -0800

Well, I fed it the old MeFi chestnut This is just to say, and slide 5 ("the icebox") was just a big picture of Becky O'Shea in "Little Giants." Which is to say, this is now my homepage.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:23:57 -0800

No work on iPad Unable to click submit Tension is palpable Move on

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:36:53 -0800

OK now someone do a mashup with this and one of the previous haiku threads.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:56:01 -0800

This Is Just To Say...

By: GenericUser

GenericUser — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:59:24 -0800

> Why do people write stuff in that style that's all terse lowercase and linebreaks? Do they think it makes them look cool or something? capitalization, much like capitalism, is oppressive, classist and must be broken down through revolution

By: aramaic

aramaic — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:01:24 -0800

I'd probably find this funnier if I weren't about to wade through the creation of an hour-long seminar on supply chains in structural framing systems and allied non-structural products. Yeah. Gonna be awesome.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:05:35 -0800

I made something once that took text from Project Gutenberg books, mashed them up with a Markov chain generator, and then "illustrated" the resulting text with flickr searches on less common words. The results were often surprisingly good. Best was to mix books, like Pride and Prejudice with Crime and Punishment (a new hit: Pride and Punishment, illustrated by The Internet)... Directed semi-randomness is great.

By: Behemoth

Behemoth — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:58:30 -0800

Shrinp for Powerpoint

By: misha

misha — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:57:02 -0800

Perfect.

By: misha

misha — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:08:05 -0800

Please stop the asshattery.