Via PZ Myers, the InFocus Labs Worst PPT Slide Contest that uncovered this abomination of a PowerPoint slide:
Myer's blog also features this great comment on PowerPoint:
Now I know what you're thinking. 'AJ, software can't be evil. It's like the people with guns kill people thing.'
You are wrong. Dangerously deluded, even. PowerPoint is evil. Worse, it's one of those truly banal evils Arendt warned you about. It's not even an evil you can respect and at least be amused a little by, like a properly flamboyant mad scientist/supervillain/movie baddie...
Nay, PowerPoint and its clones are a beige kind of evil. The kind that eats your brain and doesn't even fucking appreciate the taste. Compare and contrast: Cthulu and the related tentacled horrors from the vasty deeps, at the least, seem to enjoy their work.
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