For my friends who live in the UK, a very nice cover CD on PCW Magazine (Personal Computer World) on sale this month. A Hutchinson-Penguin Combined reference CD with over 9 volumes of incisive and useful reference information on board: completely free. Cannot recommend this too highly.

Here's a quote from James Thurber to whet your appetite, found when browsing around the Book of Quotations included.

You wait here and I'll bring the etchings down.
[Men, Women and Dogs, cartoon caption]