30 April 2010

The Zen of Presentations, Part 33: PowerParody

Making fun of PowerPoint has gotten too easy, frankly. Too many people have written too much about how many people use it badly.

But this one made me laugh hard.

It’s coming out of this much forwarded New York Times article about the use of PowerPoint by the military.

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I suspect this bit was partly inspired by Peter Norvig’s famous Gettysburg address parody, but this one has a Star Wars clip. And that automatically makes everything better.

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