The Gettysburg PowerPoint

I'm filing this under "Just for Fun," even though it might bring enough bad experiences to mind that you won't find it so fun after all. It's certainly off-topic, but it's Friday, so I'll call that my excuse.

11/19/1863: The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation

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"Imagine a world with almost no pronouns or punctuation. A world where any complex thought must be broken into seven- word chunks, with colorful blobs between them. It sounds like the futuristic dystopia of Kurt Vonnegut's short story Harrison Bergeron, in which intelligent citizens receive ear-splitting broadcasts over headsets so that they cannot gain an unfair advantage over their less intelligent peers. But this world is no fiction. . ."

(via Hugh Hewitt)

Posted: Fri - May 19, 2006 at 02:17 PM |

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The Gettysburg PowerPoint

Thinking Christian by Tom Gilson