In a comment, one of UD’s readers, “superdestroyer,” sent her to…
…a most amazing anti-PowerPoint page. Forget students at Rate My Professors complaining about professors who use PowerPoint -- YOU’RE IN THE ARMY NOW.
And military folks don’t seem to cotton to PowerPoint either. Let us begin with some military PowerPoint haikus:
PowerPoint briefing, Eye candy for the big cheese, Sycophant's wet dream!
Brief CG at noon, Animated slides and sounds, Cartoons for morons!
Cheese-meister to brief, Proud to wear PowerPoint tab, Future General!
And now some military PowerPoint quotations:
"While you were making your slides, we would be killing you."
(Russian officer […] in a discussion between US and Russian officers serving in Bosnia as to who would have won if we had ever actually fought in Western Europe.)
"Despite the level of cadet complaints about the 'Death by PowerPoint’ phenomena, I have found that they (cadets) are quite willing to inflict this upon their colleagues."
(LTC J.B. USMA Faculty)
"PowerPoint presentations are a new form of anesthesia and torture. They were even used at the Abu Ghraib Prison."
(Anonymous)
[Gen. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's,] order [to stop using PowerPoint] is only the Pentagon's most recent assault on a growing electronic menace: the PowerPoint briefing."
(Anonymous)
A final haiku, from UD:
Why are there still professors inflicting PowerPoint on their students?
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