Ouija--It's like IM-ing with the dead:
...only with crappier throughput.
Picture this: two computers, sitting side by side. A word-processing file sits on one and needs to be copied to the other. No problem. There's tons of ways to do this, right?
Save it to a disk? Oops--while the laptop has a VST Superdisk drive (which reads run-of-the-mill 1.44 Mb disks as well as 128 Mb Superdisks), the desktop only has a 100Mb Zip drive. Push and cram as I might, that drive just won't read this disk (and now it's making some awful complaining noises in the process).
Perhaps I should consider another option. Ooh! the laptop's equipped with an IR port, so I can just zap it onto the desktop all James Bond-like, only...damn it all! There's no corresponding port on the G3 tower. Okay, calm down, let's see...what else is in my file-transfer arsenal?
I know--I'll burn a CD. That's what all the hep cats are doing these days, after all. Still, that'd be quite a waste of the medium, considering that this one file takes up a miniscule amount of space on a disc; I'll just look for some other files on my laptop that I'd like to move as well, and...d'oh! I forgot. I've only got a plain old CD-ROM drive for my laptop. Oh well, that plan's shot to Shangrila...
Aha! I'll just use my trusty PCMCIA memory card... for which no slot exists on the tower.
Eureka! My USB keychain drive will be perfect...except that I haven't gotten around to buying one quite yet.
Telepathy? By now, I've got a raging headache; my otherwise meager extrasensory skills have been rendered useless.
Two computers, sitting side by side...one wants what the other has. The other wants to give it up, but can't. Mere inches between them, and yet...ARGH!
Mission accomplished. Via Georgia Tech's network connection (located in Atlanta, Georgia), I emailed the file attachment to my OSU addy (server in Columbus, Ohio). And not yet aware that OSU has recently launched Webmail service (not to mention too lazy to configure my desktop's email client to pick up my OSU mail), I downloaded the email to my web-based Yahoo! account (server somewhere in Californ-I-A). And all this took less than a minute, far less time than it took me to consider all those other dead-end file-transfer options. Such is the spatial illogics of the digital age--where moving bits thousands of miles along copper, coax, and fiber optic lines is somehow faster and more efficient than getting them to travel a mere eight inches. In the words of that wizened Russian raconteur Yakov Smirnoff, "What a country!" 
(Slide from Abraham Lincoln's 1863 PowerPoint presentation, "The Gettysburg Address")
I'm truly torn. I like to think that slide presentation software (PowerPoint being the most ubiquitous, but Keynote, Appleworks, and others as well) has a lot of unmined potential--for instance, with the timing and animation features alone, you can mock up a fairly professional looking mini-movie, or at least create a robust storyboard for one. The ability to incorporate images, sound, animation, film clips, and other multimedia makes it a robust app for those of us interested in "new media" approaches to writing, but...
More often than not, PowerPoint products make my teeth itch, they're so annoying and bland. No less an authority than graphic design guru Edward Tufte agrees; he sees the medium as anathema to the time-honored design principles of delivering data through simple and intuitive graphical displays. Adjectives used by Tufte to explain why PowerPoint is evil: smarmy, chaotic, incoherent. But then there's folks like that Talking Head David Byrne--he gets it, right? Although...part of the aesthetic point of this project is to poke fun at the pedestrian conventions of PowerPoint. But that's at least a step in the right direction.
This rumination comes on the heels of a unit in my 1101 classes where students gave presentations based on the assigned readings, some of which were good (by the already low standards established by .ppt business culture), some of which were atrocious. I also recently danced with the beast myself when I presented at a conference, and at times...well, I felt kinda dirty. As ubiquitous as this software is, I think it's important to at least consider artful, rhetorically savvy ways of constructing texts with it.