Brewster Kahle wants to complete the circle of Google's Print service: once physical media are available online, make the books, movies, concerts, et al. available at cost to people everywhere.
The social and policy aspects of the internet archive are phenomenal.
Their first colo is in Alexandria, where once Ptolemy took all of your books for his library (and returned to you a faithful copy, but a copy).
Brad, in discussion of the famed Caltrain party car, mentioned the Profanisaurus. Endless amusement; rib-tickling fun; side-splitting euphemisms. And I got to watch Snatch, a superlatively profane movie.
And while I'm on the movies tip, how about the latest Korean animated flick, "Doggy Poo", in which a dandelion sprout guides an existential turd through the thicket of life? (There's a colouring book for the young 'uns). I suppose this might join Léolo as an all-time classic movie about shit. "Gummo" doesn't count.