"Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely." -- Edward TufteHas anyone else been following Click to Add Title? Seven rounds of duelling PowerPoint presentations. Round two, titled "Horror Show" ran last week, and it lived up to its name. Twenty fun-filled slides (ten from each contestant) of the most horrific transitional, textual, sound, and animation effects ever dished up by the Microsoft corporation. Not to mention bad clipart, cheezy pie charts and tacky graphs. It was truly awe-inspiring in its mastery of the software's most abused features.
Round one was good for a chuckle as well. I'm not too familiar with the "content wizards" -- boilerplate presentations on various themes (eg. "Motivating a Team", "Conduct a Creative Thinking Session") that allow even the most vapid corporate drones to put together a somewhat coherent piece. If anyone ever tried to "motivate" me with a bunch of lame-ass slides, I'd insert their projector somewhere on/in their person where the sun doesn't shine.
Metafilter had a nice discussion on the evils of PowerPoint which included some primo linkage to related articles of interest.