Tuesday, April 27, 2010

"We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint"

[Below, excerpt and link to article by Elisabeth Bumillerin today's New York Times.]

"'PowerPoint makes us stupid,' Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat."

The entire article.

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