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.



