geeze, what's everyone got against floppy drives?
ugly? no uglier than a DVD drive, or a ZIP drive. useless? hardly:
1. try flashing BIOS without a floppy
2. reinstallation of windows9x (boot floppy, fdisk, format C
3. small, frequent backups: I use MS Money, something that is VERY important to me to keep a backup copy of. Full backup of 4 years of financial records, 3 checking accounts, stock account, money market accounts, etc etc etc----1 floppy disk! (~950k)
and they're CHEAP! drive ~$10, disks=I dunno, I got 2 large boxes of them FREE after rebates at Office Depot about a year ago.
(/ot rant)
modding a floppy: I painted the bezel of mine black to match my case. You could change the LED to a different color (I like the green, it matches my green case lighting).