When PowerPoints Go Bad - Lincoln at Gettysburg

Having sat through horrific PowerPoint presentations that totally obscure the message (Don't you love it when nervous or inexperienced presenters laboriously read every single word to you?), I can't help but share this parody PowerPoint presentation of what it might have been like if Abraham Lincoln had delivered his legendary Gettysburg address using the Microsoft Marvel instead of what we have today.

Hats off to Peter Novig (http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm) for making this happen.

Here's their introduction:

And now please welcome President Abraham Lincoln.

Good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? Function-F7? No, that's not right. Hmmm. Maybe I'll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I'm your president. While we're waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee supervising the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery. It's great to be here, Dave, and you and the committee are doing a great job. Gee, sometimes this new technology does have glitches, but we couldn't live without it, could we? Oh - is it ready? OK, here we go: