Interestingly, those "horribly, hilariously bad PowerPoint" presentations tend to have better content-to-noise ratio than the pretty ones.

This applies to the modern web as well.

My personal favorite example of a "NASA-style, bad PowerPoint presentation" is a SCRUM meeting involving a deck of slides with ~20 lines of text per slide. The SCRUM master involved was an employee of Accenture, IIRC. [Edit: And yes, the deck by itself had an impressively high information content.]

NASA and its contractors (which, in my experience, do most of the work attributed to NASA) have a weird, self-reinforcing cycle of decision-making by PowerPoint such that slide decks are important, necessary, and ubiquitous and therefore almost universally bad. Tufte's example of of a presentation burying the lede that the Shuttle will get blowed up is just one consequence.

What this "NASA-style powerpoint" refers to is the fact that the content would be better presented as normal flowing text instead of set of slides that are overpacked with text.

On the other hand this presentation is not that bad, at least it does not have bullet lists nested five levels deep where text size does not match the nesting levels and such things.

Presentation appears to be due to Honeywell, not NASA. It's hosted on a NASA site due to the subject matter.

(In case you don't see it, check out my other comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14777946, for further background data.)

The NASA environment, which includes Honeywell in this case, is full of these sorts of things. This one is actually quite good.

It's almost a mark of authenticity, the way Nobel laureates always have the ugliest websites.