In my dream

he wanted the bathroom.

“What’s that smell?”

he said.

“A gift,” I said, and gave him

cheap soap

hugely wrapped in purple

with a golden bow, no less.

How thoughtful. How thoughtless.

Not only splash, but flash. —Rachel McAlpine —Four Dreams about Jakob Nielsen (Quality Web Content)

Jakob Nielsen is a web usability guru. What’s the point of giving someone “cheap soap” in a fancy wrapper? Plenty of web pages have equally flashy veneers, obscuring what little content or functionality they offer.