Sorry mr. Norman
Full-on rantmode.
Gratuitous Graphics and Human-centered Website Design ( jnd.org ): this is just annoying. It's not fun. If this is Don Norman's idea of good use of graphics and animation, I'm sorry.
I can appreciate Don making a much needed case for graphics and fun, but at least he could have used something that was interesting for anyone else than a complete web newbie and for longer than, say, 3 seconds. Something that didn't disctract from reading? There is a lot of good graphic stuff being developed. Sometimes the NN guys just portray this cluelessness about the web that is hard to understand from such clever people. Get permalinks Jacob! It's not hard.
What's more, IE popped up a message telling me the script was causing it to run slowly. Sigh.