[MACEP] PowerPoint and the web

[Eric Harrison]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Eric Neiwert wrote:

> I know most of you have seen this before but it is worth mentioning again....
>
> While you are at it take a look at the Gettysburg address if it had been done by Abe with Powerpoint.
>
> http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
> Here is the related essay. http://www.norvig.com/lancet.html

The latest issue of Wired has a great article about four
ESL high school students beating MIT in an engineering
contest: http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/robot.html

I laughed out loud when I read this part:

    "Why don't you have a PowerPoint display?" he asked.

    "PowerPoint is a distraction," Cristian replied. "People use it when
     they don't know what to say."

    "And you know what to say?"

    "Yes, sir."


-Eric