Mon 27 Sep 2004
This is a hilarious illustration of the ways that Microsoft Powerpoint is being misused:
The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
Also see:
Edward Tufte: Powerpoint is Evil
Tufte has been on this rant for some time. The most useful point I take from this is to be skeptical of the information presented in Powerpoint - not to be sucked in by the perception of legitimacy that Powerpoint provides. It can obscure high quality information, and give false credibility to worthless information.