Exactly! Take that, Valley's "Beautiful" startups ;)

It's certainly an incredibly readable font, even with the webcast being somewhat blurry. A good choice.

Twitter is full of bashing. I don't think it matters. The presentation is already unfriendly to anyone not in the scientific community, so presentation isn't really that important.

However, as everyone else has said, it would have been lovely to have a layman's TL;DR. Perhaps that's the press conference at 11:00, and expecting it beforehand is arrogant.

There is a font called Dyslexie which looks like a much subtler Comic Sans and was designed to be more readable for dyslexics.

www.studiostudio.nl/project-dyslexie/

Simon Peyton-Jones, of Haskell fame (however relative such a fame may be), is also well known for using Comic Sans in his presentations.

So it's not unknown in advanced CS either :).

This happened already in 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vif4D-TJYQ

They must really like that font :)

Soon the web will move to Lobster.