In August, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board at NASA released Volume 1 of its report on why the space shuttle crashed. As expected, the ship's foam insulation was the main cause of the disaster. But the board also fingered another unusual culprit: PowerPoint, Microsoft's well-known ''slideware'' program.

As an ex-Kinkos employee, I would have to agree. Power Point is the digital publishing equivalent to Death Metal.

PowerPoint Makes You Dumb