[conspire] [OT]* PowerPoint karaoke

[Rick Moen]

All my life, I've been waiting for this:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/powerpoint-karaoke-brings-stress-relief-to-silicon-valleys-embattled-office-workers-1426728632

  PowerPoint Karaoke Brings Stress Relief to Silicon Valley's Embattled Office Workers
  'PowerPoint karaoke' pits players in improv slideshows, whales, chest hair

  [...]
  The mix of improvised comedy and corporate-culture takedown is based
  on a simple notion: Many PowerPoint presentations are unintentional
  parody already, so why not go all the way?  
  [...]
  At a February PowerPoint karaoke show in San Francisco, contestants
  were given pairings of topics and slides ranging from a self-help
  seminar for people who abuse Amazon Prime, with slides including a dog
  balancing a stack of pancakes on its nose, to a sermon on 'Fifty
  Shades of Grey,' with slides including a pyramid dotted with
  blocks of numbers. Another had to explain the dating app Tinder to
  aliens invading the Earth, accompanied by a slide of old floppy disk
  drives, among other things.

My favourite bit of this article is a guest appearance by Never Say Anything:

  Ubiquity has a downside: When former National Security Agency
  contractor Edward Snowden leaked information about the agency's
  digital-surveillance programs, commenters panned the agency's
  slidework. An architecture and design columnist for the Guardian
  newspaper said the NSA's PowerPoints looked 'like the work of 
  a drunken toddler, high on the potentials of AutoShapes and WordArt.'

  An NSA spokeswoman didn't respond to a request for comment.


* As if that weren't apparent from the title.