Mmmmm, pie chart!

[ladyvyola]

I wouldn't be surprised if some of you have seen this before ::eyes av_lad:: but I found it absolutely fascinating:

PowerPoint Does Rocket Science

Basically, when PP becomes the reporting tool of choice for scientific and engineering information, accuracy and credibility go down the drain. The implications of its wholesale adoption at NASA is depressing and mind-boggling.

As someone who has created a lot of PP presentations (no technical info, thank heavens!), I can see where I have always tended to fight against the rigid hierarchy PP tries to impose. I've fooled with font size, changed default spacing, un-orphaned the last words of paragraphs, etc. It really tries to turn everything passive and plays into the all-too human impulse to rank everything and, that done, consider each ranked list equivalent to the others.

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[av-lad.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have not seen this before.

As Spock would say... Fascinating.

Completely OT, but...

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

are we meeting you on the 19th for a viewing of the latest Potter squee??