"PowerPoint is evil" author to monitor stimulus spending

The man who says that “PowerPoint is evil” is heading for the PowerPoint capital of the world, Washington, DC. There, Edward Tufte will advise the White House on how to keep stimulus spending on the up and up.

…and “The Duck” those goofy three dimensional graphic objects that you often see superimposed over maps and tables. They reminded him of various roadside stores built in the literal form of ducks.
“No information, no sense of discovery, no wonder, no substance is generated by chartjunk,” Tufte warned. But those words were written two years before the invention of PowerPoint, which Tufte went after with particular gusto perhaps most famously in his 2003 Wired essay, “PowerPoint Is Evil.”
One damn slide after another
“Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn’t,” Tufte’s screed began. “Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects: It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication. These side effects would rightly lead to a worldwide product recall.”
In “PowerPoint is Evil,” Tufte argued that this particular product makes it easier for the presenter to get through his or…

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