genehack: october 2000 archives
And then I remembered: in my haste to get the class together, I'd used the PowerPoint
presentation of the person who was supposed to speak -- a presentation loaded down
with various bits of zinging text and dancing graphics. And at that point, I realized
yet another aspect of the PowerPoint evil. Not only does that crap piece of malware
result in speakers spending more time on useless appearance-based noodling and not
enough time on the actual content of what they're talking about, it encourages the
audience to go into TV watching mode, to sit back and enjoy the little bits of
pixels that go whizzing about the screen.