Geeks and Bikes

Mr tea's post below involving (some really rather fine) hippity hop beats and, more relevant to this post, some geek stuff on powerpoint, reminded me to post a recent discovery of mine. Mr tea's fine examples aside, I'm sure I'm not alone in having endured countless mind-numbingly dull powerpoint presentations in my time. So many, in fact, that, along with other geekish hates including most things Windows and all things Comic Sans Serif (bancomicsans.com), I have grown a rather unhealthy hatred for powerpoint and its stupid slidey monopoly over the presentation world.

But hallelujah! During a particularly long powerpoint-fest at a conference the other day someone whipped out a presentation using prezi, and bye jove it was good! Prezi works more like a map that you navigate, rather than a slide-show. Regardez vous s'il vous-plait (let it load, then press the play button to go between each 'slide'):

Why should you move beyond slides? on Prezi

Snazzy eh? And you can get a half-decent free version, so no more putting money in Mr Billy-Gates-Gruff's pockets, even if he is going to give it all away eventually..

And now, as a treat for enduring another waffly post, the amazing new video from Danny MacAskill. He don't need no stabilizers..: