Powerpoint+Auto-Content+Wizard

The School Play
In recognition of all of the student presentations taking place during dead week, I decided to re-read Edward Tufte's //Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.// Tufte argues that PP "promotes a cognitive style that disrupts and trivializes evidence" and that "PP presentations too often resemble a school play: very loud, very slow, and very simple." (p.31)

See this hilarious adaptation of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in Powerpoint format:

The Gettysburg Address Powerpoint Presentation
Ian Parker describes the AutoContent Wizard as "a rare example of a product named in outright mockery of its target customers." //The New Yorker//, May 28, 2001.(cited in Tufte, 2006)