Just finished watching Colin Powell address the United Nations on the Iraq crisis while working. I couldn’t help but wander off into thinking about two things.
- It’s someone’s job to do those powerpoint slides.
Someone, somewhere was slaving away, with people leaning over their shoulder maybe saying: “no… can you make it more… more… ominous. Yeah… that’s great“. Who does that? What’s their creative process? Seriously! There was an incidental/title slide which had “IRAQ” in a perspectivised, embossed sans serif – something tombstone-like, maybe Geoffrey Lee’s “Impact”. It looked like the kind of highly-stylised graphic you’d see as an ‘over-shoulder’ on CNN or Fox News. It looked so incongruous in the context of the UN and yet so “broadcast ready”. I wonder if, sensibly perhaps considering their job, this was in the designer’s mind. - The guy over Colin Powell’s left shoulder.
I couldn’t take my eyes off him. With his instantaneous-translation earpiece on the side of his head, he looked the spitting image of LoBot from Empire Strikes Back.
Petafloptimism 
As a reluctant PowerPoint black-belt, I have often clucked my tongue at the poor quality of Pentagon slide design. State apparently has their feces more coagulated in this area. You can view the slides online,, by the way. Anyhow, congrats on writing the headline of the week.
And from this we can *prove* that Colin Powell is in fact none other than Lando Calrissian. The mind boggles.
Then, I Had An Adlai Stevenson Moment
Matt Jones expresses it better than I do, but see if you can guess what I was doing at 3:30pm
Then, I Had An Adlai Stevenson Moment
Matt Jones expresses it better than I do, but see if you can guess what I was doing at 3:30pm
Power corrupts, Powerpoint corrupts absolutely
Dan Hon noticed it, but it takes Matt Jones to point out the unaskable question: just who is it that
Power corrupts, Powerpoint corrupts absolutely
Dan Hon noticed it, but it takes Matt Jones to point out the unaskable question: just who is it that
[snigger]
Matt Jones has some hilarious observations on Colin Powell’s address to the UN. I’m not sure which is more incongruous;
[snigger]
Matt Jones has some hilarious observations on Colin Powell’s address to the UN. I’m not sure which is more incongruous;
The Smoking Gun
Now that all the hullaballoo has died down, I can present to you the shocking truth. Itt’s only been speculation
The Smoking Gun
Now that all the hullaballoo has died down, I can present to you the shocking truth. Itt’s only been speculation
The Smoking Gun
Now that all the hullaballoo has died down, I can present to you the shocking truth. Itt’s only been speculation
The Smoking Gun
Now that all the hullaballoo has died down, I can present to you the shocking truth. Itt’s only been speculation
"… concentrating on the wrong things"
1. It’s someone’s job to do those powerpoint slides. and 2. That guy over Colin Powell’s left shoulder.
"… concentrating on the wrong things"
1. It’s someone’s job to do those powerpoint slides. and 2. That guy over Colin Powell’s left shoulder.
"… concentrating on the wrong things"
1. It’s someone’s job to do those powerpoint slides. and 2. That guy over Colin Powell’s left shoulder.