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Daigo first covered this phenomenon in May when he posted a video of the Ruby no Kai presenting in Tokyo. Specifically, Masayoshi Takahashi (maki on Ruby-Talk and IRC) has enjoyed considerable press over his technique—The Takahashi Method—for flashing slides with monstrous symbols to enforce short lessons over the audience’s eyespace. (As an example, Maki’s slides for a speech on Rails are here.)

Six months later, it’s still brilliant, eh! A bunch of great permutations have reared up:

• Autrijus has delivered in such a style and converted to ODP, PDF, PPT and SWF!
• A XUL application for assembling such magnificent presentations. (Instructions in JP.)
• An English strategy: Large fonts, big pix.. (Neat. Still, latin characters just don’t do it the same.)

(This came back to my attention from 37signals and, subsequently, Presentation Zen, who both expand on the technique itself.)