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The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
« on: December 26, 2007, 06:40:38 pm »
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Re: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2007, 01:33:34 am »
heh, yeah I don't think anyone is going to be inspired by powerpoint.
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Re: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2008, 09:19:51 pm »
This presentation was highlighted in Edward Tufte's book Beautiful Evidence.  Here's an excerpt about PowerPoint.  If you ever write any documents that contain any graphs for any reason, check out his Visual Display of Quantitative Information book.  It is most badass in showing you how to convey the most information in the least space without ever misleading your audience.
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Re: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2008, 09:46:49 pm »
Pedro is the guy at cocktail parties who has a reading assignment for everyone in the room. 
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Re: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2008, 09:59:25 pm »
But what if I want to mislead my audience?
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Re: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2008, 10:07:48 pm »
Quote from: wombat on January 14, 2008, 09:59:25 pm
But what if I want to mislead my audience?
Install a sense of urgency and use phrases like "slam dunk evidence"
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Re: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2008, 11:11:16 pm »
Weirdly I just requested this book from the uni library, if Pedro and the Xkcd guy agree then it's probably worth reading.
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Re: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2008, 11:28:13 pm »
My anthro professor this semester makes these powerpoints that somehow...

it's like his powerpoints are somehow really earnest? I can't remember what about the one today was strange, but it was really weird. But in a way that was like... not over-the-top. Just... really intense.
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