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Wired continues their run of brilliant advice with How to make a presentation like Al Gore...which luckily doesn't get into how to lose an election like Al Gore. As a teacher, I've seen my share of utterly dreadful powerpoints, so it's nice to see some good advice...many people need it.

designing Mario

Here's a cool interview with veteran Nintendo game developer Yoshiaki Koizumi on the perils of designing three dimensional video games. I find it all very fascinating...but then again, my last video game system was an Atari 2600, so I'm very out of date.