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I take a different approach.. I'm the resident hard drive collector as well, except I take them apart and extract the magnets. The older they are the better, drives from the late 90's seem to have the best ones. Modern desktop drives have pussy magnets. :( Seagate 73 gig fiber channel disks have the best magnets I've ever pulled.

Of course, the hard part is doing something productive with them. They're really not good for much, except for marveling how cool magnetism is. Eddy currents are a good crowd pleaser.. made a pendulum type device with a led wired up to a coil, as it swung past a magnet the led would flicker.

Also, this:

http://xzzy.org/files/geek/eddy/eddy.avi

Know a guy who would make such projects and donate them to schools as educational toys.. schools are always glad for stuff like that.

I did something like this a month or so ago when that story was posted on Slashdot about the guy who was distributing a 23k file called Doom3:

http://xzzy.org/warez/

For the month of September, that directory became the most popular location on my site.. over seven thousand unique visitors.

Fighteningly, the file with britney spears in it's name was the most popular download by about 40%.

Sadly, no DMCA/MPAA takedown notices. :(

Symantec Web Security: Access Denied

The requested document, http://www.xzzy.org/warez/Britney_Spears_-_Baby_On e_More_Time.mp3, will not be shown.

Reason: Blocked File Extension.

Someone else already had this idea:
http://www.xzzy.org/warez/

But they're actually just .jpgs of kittens :-)

You mean like this ?
(Originally posted here)

But they'll only find it if someone links to it

This movie doesn't do the article justice (it's mostly an ad for the website), but towards the bottom of the article they have a 15 second or so clip (wmv format) showing the ride in action.

I dunno.. record breaking is nice and all, but seems to me a longer slower ride, with more loops and swoops, would be much more fun overall.