Holmes, We Hardly Knew Ye

I've been reading some Sherlock Holmes short stories — which no doubt inspired this recent illustration for AirTran's Go magazine. The tech column for May offered tips for inspecting new software packages. The guy with the magnifying glass started out as more of a Sherlock caricature, but later evolved into more of a regular dude.
Meanwhile, I've been shocked by some of the revelations of the short stories. Dirty stuff! Maybe this is old news to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fans, but I never realized Holmes was a coke head. Here's a bit from "A Scandal in Bohema":

"...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug and fierce energy of his own keen nature."

Yikes. So maybe we'll see Robert Downey Jr. blowing rails in the new Sherlock Holmes flick?