Rands, have you heard about gnome-storage? It's a project for the Unix GNOME desktop environment which basically replaces the standard filesystem hierarchy with a database. Theoretically, this is going to lead to a system where, instead of making a directory for all of your Tarantino movies, you keep an alias to a query for all movies made by Tarantino.

Whether this will work in the long run is another thing entirely, but if you like databases, you might find the project interesting.

Also, I thought I was the only person who desperately wanted to IM rands but was too nervous.