Stuff that amused me this morning

What if Marvin were a web fileserver?

From Library Juice: Libraries, the Princeton campus's unknown repository of sexiness.

... For people who are really interested in finding out about things and engaging ideas, the excitement of libraries is sensual and visceral as well as cerebral. Emerson, the greatest of all oped writers, and the most quotable of all the Victorian sages, says that "A man's library is a kind of harem". And if he dared to say it, I dare to quote it, even without the sort of prudent gender modification that might spare me a few emails. (Somehow "A person's library is a kind of singles' bar" just doesn't cut it.) Emerson is not what you would call a lubricious writer, but he knew what excitement was and where to find the action....