>I think the hard drive actually had a severed
>human hand holding a magnetic stylus for a write head

When I read this last night, I was sufficiently punchy from sleep dep (I spent most of yesterday in the 3 AM field, thanks to cumulative time-change derived discombobulation) that the resulting visual, a macabre, Flintstones-by-way-of-Terry Gilliam's Brazil sort of thing, was just shy of reducing me to tears from laughter.

"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding