- Switzerland’s Anti-PowerPoint Party | Geekosystem
- …the Anti-PowerPoint Party is taking a political stand, rallying behind the cause to make PowerPoint illegal in Switzerland.
The Anti-PowerPoint Party claims that the use of the presentation software costs the Swiss economy approximately 2.1 billion Swiss Francs a year (US $2.5billion). They base their calculation on reportedly unverified assumptions about the number of employees that attend PowerPoint presentations weekly, and the assumption that these presentations hold no value for 85% of attendees thus costing companies money from the loss of productive work hours.
…Poehm suggests taking presentations old school by bringing back that bastion of creativity, the flipchart.
- Color Bias: Do Light-Skinned Blacks Get Shorter Sentences?
- Villanova researchers studied more than 12,000 cases of African-American women imprisoned in North Carolina and found that women with lighter skin tones received more-lenient sentences and served less time than women with darker skin tones.
- Photo Gallery: America’s Black Astronauts
- The final launch of Atlantis on July 8 will mark the end of the American space shuttle era, where six of these unique spacecraft flew 135 missions. An impressive 20 African Americans have earned the moniker “astronaut,” and 14 have actually been shot into space.
- Fourth of July: Words of wisdom from the Founding Fathers – latimes.com
- Independence Day 2011 dawns amid a resurgence of interest in our nation’s Founding Fathers. “Tea party” conservatives in particular like to invoke them as an inspiration. Yet while it is certainly possible to find writings by individual founders that adhere closely to modern right-wing principles, this group of mostly white Anglo-Saxon Protestant property owners had profoundly differing opinions about governance — differing not only among themselves but often from the views of today’s conservatives. …
- Clinics Face Budget Cuts and a New Wave of Patients – The Bay Citizen
- Clinics may have to dismiss doctors just as the newly insured begin turning up.
- …a heartwarming story of an 80-year-old man’s journey to learn how to read in Kenya’s newly promised free education system. Maruge, a veteran of Kenya’s Mau Mau Uprising, fought against colonial British rule and longs for the education he was promised but never received.
- DSK Affair: Is Former IMF Chief the Victim Now?
- “So, she may have misrepresented some facts about her past in her application for asylum in the United States. Big deal. She may have associations with suspected drug dealers. This means she wasn’t the victim of an assault by DSK? A tape-recorded phone call between the housekeeper within a day of the alleged assault has her discussing benefits of pressing charges. Once again, this doesn’t mean she wasn’t the victim of an assault….”
The rush to judgment, first with DSK and now with the housekeeper, is an indictment of our obsessed and obsessive media.
- Garry McCarthy: Chicago’s New Top Cop the New Father Pfleger?
- “I want you to connect one more dot on that chain of African-American history in this country, and tell me if I’m crazy: Federal gun laws that facilitate the flow of illegal firearms into our urban centers, across this country, that are killing black and brown children,” Superintendent McCarthy said, according to the Sun-Times. “Let’s see if we can make a connection here. Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow. What, what did they all have in common? Government-sponsored racism.”
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