What Would We Do Without Research?

PowerPoint sux:

Powerpoint presentations, beloved of the business executive, are so ubiquitous that there are even PowerPoint presentations on how to do a PowerPoint presentation. Now research claims to have proved what millions of bored workers have suspected all along - they have little power and even less point.

According to the report, the brain cannot cope with having too much information thrown at it at once.

Having someone speak and point to a screen full of facts and figures at the same time causes it to switch off.

A speech would be far less of a waste of time, the research claims.

The study, at the University of New South Wales, branded PowerPoint presentations a disaster and called for them to be scrapped.

In all my years, I cannot remember a single PowerPoint presentation that I thought the least bit effective. Half the time they are actually disruptive, as some technical glitch or other causes the presenter to become distracted and panicked as he frantically tries to find the right doohicky on his laptop to punch. The other half, the presenter simply repeats whatever it is that's up on the screen. [Insert Homer Simpson-like "BOOO-ring!!" here.]

In fact, just thinking about PowerPoint is making me suddenly come over all sleeep385 85 85yqu hkjfdg j nmn, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........................

YIPS from Steve-O: Amen, brother!

Here's my all-time favorite, the Gettysburg Address done as a powerpoint.

One word: pure genius.