Wired has announced the winners of the NASA slogan contest they were running a while back. As I said in a previous post, I made a submission, but not long after doing that I soon regretted it. My choice of slogan was more of a sci-fi joke, so had no chance. I thought it was [...]
Archive for 1 October 2007
Wired NASA Slogan Winners
Posted: 1 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: contest, nasa, nasa slogan, slogan, space
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What people hear
Posted: 1 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: entropy, humor, information, information theory, memes, memetics, presentations
While on the topic of presentations, I came across this video in the archives of Presentation Zen and then again on Bad Astronomy the same day. Coincidence or some hidden memetic process? I think it’s an awesome example of how the worst PowerPoint presentations actually come across: as messages with zero entropy (that is, no [...]
