Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Is PowerPoint Evil?

Edward Tufte has declared PowerPoint as evil in this article.

I am not sure I can agree - although calling presentations "slideware" is pretty clever.

To harken back to the old "guns don't kill people, people kill people" mantra, I think it is more "PowerPoint isn't insipid, but the insipid can not be prevented from using PowerPoint".

And while taking no formal position on the former item, I always felt "guns don't kill people, bullets do" would have been more accurate.

But no one asked me.

Monday, May 15, 2006

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

One red paper clip meets Alice

An illustration of the power of blogs, and confirmation that Alice Cooper is a heck of a guy.