'How To Do It' tutorial secrets

Before I start my series on design, here's some sage advice on tutorials, via Jim Feeley:

Forget Madge, here's (old) Ballmer

This was suggested after following a link to the famous words of Madge... Soak up a big taste of Steve Ballmer, who's given so much over the years:

Argument Clinic

You can learn a thing or two from this malodorous Monty Python skit, Argument Clinic:

His Girl Friday

Someone who was old enough to know better told me that he would never watch a black & white movie. Here's one of the funniest, His Girl Friday, a movie remade by Hollywood about 4 times.

This version by Howard Hawks may be the best, with very snappy dialogue delivered by Carey Grant and Rosalind Russell. It's no longer in copyright, so you can grab a DVD version from the Internet Archive. The best copy is on YouTube with embedding disabled, but you can sample this:

Caught in a food web

Speaking of competition & deadwood in motion graphics, there's an odd food web in the Lifeboat sketch by Monty Python:

Zoom in and enhance

While most of us have seen Let's Enhance, a rerun of The Simpsons provides another algorithm for now:

If '24' was set in Windows 3.1 era

There are fullscreen controls...via TechCrunch. This movie is funny but could make you an STS relativist concerned about adaptation to accelerating change.