http://blogs.purpleiguanasoftware.com/ en-us 40 Obscurata Craptacula comments With apologies to <a href="http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/videokilledtheradiostarlyrics.html">The Buggles</a>, <a href="http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm">Peter Norvig</a> and <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint">Edward Tufte</a>... <hr/> <p>I saw your PowerPoint slides for your technical talk,<br/> Glazing over as you read each one aloud,<br/> The crappy format stopped knowledge coming through.</p> <p>Oh-a oh</p> <p>Its many wizards gave ugly, eye-sore templates,<br/> Low contrast gradients and still homelier fonts,<br/> And that&#8217;s notwithstanding the content you killed.<br/></p> <p>Oh-a-oh</p> <p>It ruined your sem&#8217;nar<br/> Oh-a oh</p> <p>Why did you do this?<br/> PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/> PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/></p> <p>Six bullets on ev&#8217;ry slide.<br/> Oh-a-a-a oh<br/></p> <p>Subject-less sentences and vague passive voice,<br/> Weaken my verbal and spatial instincts.<br/> Disembowel any statistical sense.<br/></p> <p>Oh-a oh<br/></p> <p>Your talk need&#8217;nt be crap.<br/> Oh-a-oh<br/></p> <p>But you just droned on.<br/></p> <p>PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/> PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/> Four-thousand words on every slide, just print it out, it&#8217;s gonna suck.<br/> Oh-a-aho oh,<br/> Oh-a-aho oh<br/></p> <p>PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/> PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/></p> <p>Four-thousand words on every slide, just print it out it&#8217;s gonna suck.<br/> Don&#8217;t stare at the screen, it&#8217;s just a crutch. Kill the slides, they&#8217;re just clip art.<br/></p> <p>This was a technical talk.<br/> This was a technical talk.<br/></p> <p>PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/> PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/> PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/> PowerPoint killed the technical talk.<br/></p> <p>PowerPoint killed the technical talk (this was a technical talk).<br/></p> Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:55:00 PDT <a href="/articles/2006/04/30/powerpoint-killed-the-technical-talk">PowerPoint Killed The Technical Talk</a> <a href="/articles/2006/04/30/powerpoint-killed-the-technical-talk">PowerPoint Killed The Technical Talk</a>