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Subject: 
Powerpoint rots your brain
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Sat, 20 Dec 2003 05:25:42 GMT
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What if Honest Abe had had Powerpoint available to him?

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

and some background

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html

and a very controversial book

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp

sorry if this is all old news to you all. It had me snickering (and I've been
told I "give good foil" as we used to say in IBM)...



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  Re: Powerpoint rots your brain
 
(...) I laughed. That PPP was really funny--'new nations' bar graph--1.0... (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Powerpoint rots your brain
 
(...) <snip> From the site: " Gee, sometimes this new technology does have glitches, but we couldn't live without it, could we? Oh - is it ready? OK, here we go: " reminded me of Bill Maher, who was on Larry King the other night... He told this (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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