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I remember that one, great idea but personally I would never dare to do that except if the cooling water was a closed loop with some sort of heat exchange.
I played with watercooling my pc some years ago before I got a laptop and it was great fun and many ways to keep your computer quiet.
I made a combination of passive and active cooling. The outside radiator(this one in a larger version http://www.highspeedpc.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/Konvgroup2.jpg ) could keep the CPU and GPU cool when not gaming, and when the water temp got too high i had a smaller radiator inside with a fan(something like this http://www.hardware-one.com/reviews/senfu_water_cooler/images/radiator1-big.jpg ) that was controlled by a microcomputer would spin the fan up.
It was really a neat little thing that could be programmed with different curved with fan volt and temperature on each axis.

This has been done for awhile - I've had one on my desk for the last six months from highspeedpc. Check it out here: http://highspeedpc.com/

Reminds me of this gadget.

Reminds me of this gadget.

This has been done ... http://www.highspeedpc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=Tech_Station

Have you seen these cases? HSPC Tech Station computer workbench

Well, I wasn't able to find a $200 waterblock, but I found one for $130 with a solid silver base. Most that I just now found were in the $60 range, and the one I have sells for $35 brand new. Even the top of the line ones, completely chromed out, are only $85. Check out these sites for waterblocks if you are only able to find $200 ones (five sites specifically for modders and water coolers who like the blinged out products, and not one has a $200 block):

xoxide
SVC
DangerDen
high speed PC
frozen cpu

While I paid twice what I would've had I done it myself with a local machine shop, I think the extra $20 was worth the testing and build experience of a mass market block.

i forgot these beauties

i forgot these beauties

It all depends on what your interests in watercooling is... if it is just to have quiet computers, then you don't need much. If you want cool looks and good overclocking, then you'll want higher quality stuff.

For just quietness, a low priced kit is fine:
iceberg 1
iceberg 2 (recommended by me)
maxxpert
aquarius 2 (also a good buy)

Those require no work or research, and are inexpensive. For overclocking or to make it look cool with windowed cases, you either buy an expensive kit or build yourself (which requires research).

Good kits:
Asetek (good pick for a new user)
danger den (good quality, requires some research)
other

If you want to build your own (as good as the high end kits at the same price as the low end kits), you'll need:
block (Maze 4 or similar)
pump (Via Aqua)
radiator (pick heater core style)
reservoir (any will work)
tubing (clear flex or tygon, 1/2")
water wetter (any will work)
clamps
fan (120mm, look for quiet)

all of which can be purchased at any of those sites. The radiator can even be the heater core from an '84 Chevrolet Chevette ($16 at Autozone).

Hope that helps.

Listen asshat, this whole being funny thing isn't as easy as I make it look. Try sticking to just reading and not posting. It'll be better for all involved. Thanks!

Here's a nice LCD display kit you can get for your case. Instead of telling you when your bus is late, it can tell you when there's a Quake 3 server to be found or when new pornographic spam has arrived in your inbox.