Jay Walker's Library
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
This place is just so jaw-droppingly FANTASTIC I get all orgasmic at the thought of being 'accidentally' locked in here for a weekend. It's a library, but not as you or I know it, Jim. It belongs to an internet entrepreneur named Jay Walker, who I had not heard of before but now desperately want be adopted by. Like some kind of magpie-on-acid, he's amassed an amazing and eclectic collection of books and what can only be described as cult objects, and what I love best about the whole thing is - he seems to have done it simply for his own private and personal enjoyment of them, collecting simply whatever interested him without any snobbish pretensions or eye to making money out of his collection. Amazing.
Look at this - it's the actual Enigma machine!
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library
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