Kill the buzz. Now that usability has become the word on everyone's mind, Nielsen has gained popularity as both a leader and coot. Often times his ideas of ditching graphics are taken out of context. When Nielsen speaks, he does not speak of the web as a whole, he speaks of business. Being a driving force behind a large corporate Intranet I know from experience that business needs a strict regiment of text.
Graphic elements are often times, completely unnecessary.
When people try to create emotions on business sites, it simply turns out to be sickening. Take Jakob with a grain of salt and be glad he doesn't acknowledge your art site as being anything useful. The gun isn't the problem, it's the moron using it.