So I wouldn't normally post this (and I haven't posted in years), but an interesting thing I have
noticed.  I hand-built a desktop to be the height I need (as opposed
to by one of those adjustable desks that just seemed ridiculous for
the price) and I am finding that after 30 years of technology
offices (from lush to spare), I am actually enjoying being in the
office again - the smell, feel, and color of hand-built desk
furniture makes the room feel richer and more vibrant.  It is a very emotional reaction. Any other
furniture or accessory make this happen for someone?  Additionally, has anybody contemplated what years and years (over 30 now for me) in front of computer screens 8+ hours a day 5-6 days a week, 50 weeks a year really does to somebody? How does this impact more generally?  Is there a historic reference - ie - I found that I had to move to drafting stools to sit because my knees where getting hurt by years of 90 degree angle sitting - did draftsmen sit so long?  Did anybody stare so long at a fixed space in front of them?

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Actually, with Visual Basic for Applications, powerpoint functionality could be extended in a fairly unlimited fashion - though the ease of such extension would probably exceed the time and capabilities of most. My main objection to this call is the arrogance of its nature. If the author is not a believer in god, it is very cynical in nature. If the author is a believer in god, it dictates a specific set of beliefs under the guise of a secular intellectual investigation. It further extends the arrogance by providing a very limited scope of acceptable deliverables - as if this investigation could be constrained to an easily defined domain.

also, please delete every post with the word "point" or "pointless" in it - including this one. I just don't see the point.

In the beginning, God created the software and the hardware. And the software was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the programmers. And God said, Let there be code: and there were code. And God saw the code, that it was good; and God blessed the code for the programmers. And God called the code open and the programmers he called at night. And thus the programmers and the code resulted in the first pay. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the computers, and let it connect the computers from the computers. And God made the firmament, and divided the computers which were under the firmament from the computers which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Internet. And the evening and the morning were the second day.And God said, Let the programmers of the Internet be gathered together unto design teams, and let corporations appear: and it was so. And God called the corporations Dot-Coms; and the gathering together of the programmers called he Dot-Commers: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the Dot-Commers bring forth grass, the herb yielding speed, and the store yielding pizza after its kind, whose cheeze is in itself, upon the Dot-Commers: and it was so.And the Dot-Commers brought forth grass, and herb yielding speed, and the store yielding pizza, whose cheeze was in itself, after its kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. And God said, Let there be firewalls and keys in the Internet to divide the public from the private; and let them be for Verisigns, and for MicroSofts, and for IBMs, and hackers: And let them be for false security in the Internet to give false confidence to people of the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the domain addresses, and the lesser light to rule all the media: he made the Internet Stars also. And God set them in the publicy machine of the Internet to give light upon the earth and money unto the Dot-Coms, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said, Let the Internet bring forth abundantly the IPO that hath life, and corporate jets that may fly above the earth. And God created great CEOs, and every employee that moveth to the lure of stock options, which the old economy companies brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every independent MBA student after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the coffers in the banks, and let stocks multiply on the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the investors after his kind, the suckers, and creeping thing, and every loser of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the loser of the earth after his kind, and investors after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make analyst and CFOs in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the stock market, and over the foul Venture Capitalists , and over the investors, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created analysts and CFOs in his own image, in the image of God created he them; bear and bull created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the stock market, and over the foul Venture Capitalists, and over every living investor that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing speed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every Dot-Com, in which is the fruit of an IPO yielding sweet rewards; to you it shall be for meat. And to every investor of the earth, and to every foul Venture Capitalist, and to every money-grubbing thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is greed, I have given every green cash for investment: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And unto the programmers God gave a great blessing, that a great reward, a mobility, would spring forth and inspire them unto great things. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the computers and the Internet were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

interactive works do not necessarily translate to .mov files. I would think pilgrimages and explorations of a virtual nature would be very interesting.