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Following FF live feed :-) - Bo Stern

I'm unboxing and reboxing an Atari 2600 - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Converting some values on my HP-16C. - LogEx

Setting up signatures in Thunderbird. - John Fox

Trying to make a Google Latitude mashup - first attempt - Pon

Watching old Dr Who on streaming Netflix. - Michael Groner

Installing Windows 7 RTM in a virtual machine on my MacBook running Snow Leopard. - BeauGiles

watching a twit-vid of @amandapalmer singing 'creep' with a ukelele on one screen whilst reading blogs in the other - Rob Clark

running diff's on about 1.5 million rows of data and piping to another perl script for scrubbing - Erik Boles

Reading @techcrunch post on iPhone Apps and downloading them. :) - emon hassan

I am not geeky enough. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

watching old filmation cartoons on hulu. (more nerd than geek though) - Jason Phillips

I'm working on my own development project management tool in Emacs, doing some documentation and cleaning up Emacs Lisp Code. http://github.com/Nafai77... - Travis B. Hartwell

Erik wins so far! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Sharing a mash-up of Rick Astley ("never gonna give you up") and Nine Inch Nails ("The hand that feeds") with all my friends! http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Alex Linebrink

Reading a Klingon blog - http://bologh.blogspot.com/ - Derrich

Q: How many of you are here on the East Coast? I'm in NY. - emon hassan

Remoting into a computer that's less than ten feet away, because i can! - Joshua Odneal

Watching old WWF Royal Rumble 1991 and playing club bing for prizes. - David R

Derrich wins hands down - Jodi Church

ironing work shirts - getting ready for work tomorrow *sigh* (ultra geeky ey!!) - Mr K

Streaming old SNES Batman games, playing TF2, and listening to Twit.tv - Carlton Prest

David R - Royal Rumble RAWKS!!! - Erik Boles

Watching how the Earth was formed and reading Louis Gray's blog post about FriendFeed. Why am I not getting drunk at a strip bar? - Stephen Pickering

Indexing mysql databases - Mike

I thought my answer was good, but Derrich kills it. - Michael Groner

watching buffy & angel, lmao - Brendon Wadey

Stephen: then you could be 'On FriendFeed at a strip bar'! - BeauGiles

Setting up my roommate's new Airport Express so he can use Airtunes, and potentially hack it to play Spotify over it as well. - Daniel Zarick

Helping someone set up an IRC client. - Danny Minick

I'm trying to get someone to shoot me a Google Voice invite, just because the geek in me wants to try it. - Scott Voss

Dang, has Emacs and Lisp hacking lost its geek cred? :( - Travis B. Hartwell

Agreed. Derrich is a uber geek. - Fred

And with the iphone still geeking out! - Stephen Pickering

Google Voice no longer uses invites, just from google directly - David R

I am watching Fox News Channel. <--- WIN. - Rob Sterling

@Travis Lisp never loses geek cred. As far as Emacs goes, I'm a vi guy. :) - Michael Groner

TRAVIS -- not at all, I just like VIM over emacs, much more flexibility, but you be a geek my man, for shizzy - Erik Boles

:) - Travis B. Hartwell

getting hands on writing the Windows Sidebar gadget... - esaarem

Defending Blue Bell ice cream and telling church jokes. - Mistletoe Glen

Learning and trying Slinkset ,listening to cafe del mar 5 :-) - Johni Fisher

Editing pics on my iPhone and posting them to social sites.…plus checking FF - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

writing an iPhone app and listing to leo laporte - Jeremy Lane

Discussing reference audio and A/V surround-sound set-ups with your brother. - Akiva Moskovitz

Scoble: Whats the prize for this contest? - David R

David, you get punched in the throat with a deflated football. - Akiva Moskovitz

watching systm on how to build a combat robot - Sean Montgomery

@David R: FriendFeed fridge magnet, - Derrich

I'm watching Youtube videos on how to emulate Mac OS 9 on an Intel Mac, full screen so I can run old apps for old time's sake, while listening to Chris Pirillo talk about being a geek. - Justin Lowery

ill take that magnet - David R

watching Big Brother feeds. Jordan won HOH. Natalie still a nutjob. - geoff hines

Playing World of Warcraft and watching FriendFeed's stream at the same time. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

rebooting PC after BSD - Phani Raj Kuchibhotla

Making a map of a fictional city (in a fictional country) while listening to JoCo - imperator3733

Installin Expression Bleand while listening to TWIT - Rohit Harshvardhan

@SEAN M. - Watch the one on kegbot, pure awesomeness. - Erik Boles

Playing Wow! - Bill Skoros

installin uber twitter beta 4 on my BB 8900 from Mexico City! cheers - Carlos

changing my friendfeed theme to custom - thegeniusfiles

@Justin check out 'Classic on Intel (COI)' - have had luck with it in the past when trying to play SimTower! - BeauGiles

EB: that's in the queue to be watched next...gotta start on step one of robot building - Sean Montgomery

researching why the USS Voyager's warp nacelles fold up - Justin Ruckman

first iteration done, more scrubbing to do, so more perl to write, maybe some awk, peace kids. - Erik Boles

@BeauGiles I was looking into SheepSaver. I'll have to take a look at COI also… - Justin Lowery

You're all *nuts* - it's Saturday night, and you (me too) are in front of the computer. <sigh> I'm reminded of my horrible high school art teacher who said artists never have "week-ends." Bastard. Damn fool was right. Substitute "geek" for "artist" and Bob's your uncle - or auntie, depending on how she swings. - Yule Heibel

watching the syfy channel (alien agent), while surfing the internet and playing the enchanted ds game - half a level to go and i've beaten the game! - ann glenn

Writing a fiction futuristic piece for my final in Tech in Society class. Cyborgs and robotic secretariats. My favorite line so far is when my main character tells his house bot to go screw a toaster. - Kenny Rayl

@BeauGiles Oh duh, same thing. Looks like I just finished downloading it. - Justin Lowery

This weekend geek: robot building...next weekend non geek: Vegas baby.... - Sean Montgomery

and i'm watching the very end of the Seahawks/Chargers pre-season game. - geoff hines

David: prize? My undying respect! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Here you go, David R - http://bit.ly/a7eGF - Derrich

• The Geekiest Thing? Well — I'm reading micro-blog posts from Robert Scoble! How can you possibly do anything geekier than that? ☺ - Richard Merritt

Watching Anime and talking about the MMA match on Facebook with my Blackberry 8900 through my access point. Only WPA encryption but have a long key and I live in the woods so I should be safe. That my friend is a geek combo :) - Tony from fftogo

Reconfiguring MythTV on my HTPC. - Edward Coffey

Reading FF instead of going to bed. Probably should be writing copy of some sort, but this is the time of night where I'll start to babble if I get sleepy. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Installing apps for the new 3Gs - Denverken

Keeping up with this thread - Reyna Carlos

Babbling in writing is just pathetic. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Checking Tweets while at GenCon - can'tget much geekier than that... - Dean Browell

Go Denverken! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

I am watching Conan O'Brien on TiVo and Reading Scoble's FriendFeed. - Louis Gray

Reyna Carlos wins - Jeremy Lane

@Yule H. Having a lazy sunday afternoon over here in Australia - almost 3pm :) - BeauGiles

Trying to get inspired to design a web site for a client so I can get my geek on. Instead, sitting here reading Robert Scoble's FriendFeed! Much more entertaining... :) - Laura Zickus

digging deep into xml/css for start-up site... working on new web software that is like a next-generation friendfeed... grabbit.net - Fred Davis

Building out the infrastructure to setup 500 live web cams across the US to let people like me and you report crimes on the street in real time! (2-5 second delay). Someone starts a fight, cops are called within 10 seconds. 500 cameras are going up by December. 10,000 more in 2010. Yes. it's effing hard! - Adam Jackson

http://ourblock.tv & http://www.crunchbase.com/company... - Adam Jackson

Using new de-soldering station to repair a bad MB to use in another dedicated system for climate prediction or seti@home...or some other grid computing project. - Jimmy

On the loosers side: having a drink of JW Gold and reading this at an strippers bar while I wait for the next performance! - Marco ILLESCAS from iPhone

Trying to get my LazyFeed /just/ right. - Shea from iPhone

...actually, grabbit is really much more than just a next-generation friendfeed... but since that's one of the closest things so far, the comparisons are inevitable... even if they don't do grabbit justice ;-) - Fred Davis

Did a brand new install of a family tree / genealogy web app, then imported the GEDCOM file from the previous install (which was an older version of the same app: http://www.phpgedview.net/ ). #ShinyNewVersion - Micah Wittman

Tweeting back to @IvankaTrump about her Thunder Cats movie request [http://twitter.com/mjcarra...] - Michael J. Carrasquillo

Watching Season 4.5 of BSG - lisa padilla

...usually I'm the geek of the week every week, so I hope someone is doing something nerdier than tweaking CSS style sheets! Especially on a saturday night! Sheesh! Good thing my GF (@lisapadilla) is a geeky girl, so she understands... in fact, she's nerding out on some grabbit stuff, too, right now ;-) - Fred Davis

My God, Doc Searls was right, we're all living in Scoble's butt! - Stephen Pickering

hehe, thx Mary Baum!, really love it so far - Denverken

Was smoking a cigar, tweeting from iPod touch and thinking about buddha. Does that count? Or should I have also been coding in PHP & reading slashdot? - Jerry Garcia

yes, Robert's friends all need to get a life! Ha! - Fred Davis

Reorganizing my iPhone apps, comparing Newstand to free RSS feeds, & researching/pondering the best way to archive my Twitter stream after reading Mashable article - Alexis from iPhone

Watching Android get ported onto an MID - Netbooknews

watching a bad movie with about 15 other people on IRC.. movie is "Frankenstein Island" - monkeystick

Lodging DMCA takedown against a scraper. - Sheila Scarborough

I guess biting the head off of a chicken doesn't count for geeky any longer? Early last century it would have been a huge draw in Kansas. - Jerry Garcia

I made a red necktie for my Brain (Pinky and the Brain) action figure. Now he's not only not naked, but looks even smarter. - Fred Jones

Going thru 104 comments on this thread. - Winston Teo

Shape Collaging FF followees http://friendfeed.com/glongma... - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Playing with TwitPaint and editing a video - Outsanity

I was wondering why my Android phone couldn't find Jupiter on Skymap, when I knew exactly where it was - Kevin Marks

reading scoble FF - Ruchit Garg

hmm, watching two long running procs on vm's, running a couple rsyncs to a new terabyte server, monitoring FF/IRC/IM, farming on WoW, preparing two servers with NGINX and i'm always keeping an eye on munin/monit/screen sessions -- but that's not geeky really, just a normal weekend - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Checking frienfeed at a wedding while everone else is dancing - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

Sean: thanks, I just wanted to see if something were happening on Twitter that wasn't here. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I'm writing blog posts in gmail and saving them under the label "Posterous Drafts". And something something circuit board something thermal something capacitor. - Brett Kelly

zeroing the hard drive of an old G4 that's going to be recycled. - David Newman

Writing a paper about Artificial Intelligence in Expert systems :D - Yahya

playing with django framework - vinod

playing with Facebook FBML and pages (and hating it) - Keith - @tsudo

Just chilling with an ice cold Bud and listening to a live Jimmy Buffett concert online. And smiling reading all the posts. - lily taylor

Sitting at the keyboard in my jammies and reading FF. - Sandra Large

reading FF & shooting my duck hunt background (just 'cause); listening to music on blip.fm; picking out fall fashion (posting to delicio.us/polyvore/blogspot...) & texting my son. Not sure what I would do w/out connection =) - Charl Pearce

Listening to Bob Seger, Janis Joplin and The Who on vinyl. Guess that would be contra geek? - John Nissim

Doing open source development in C++. - Dean Michael Berris

checking out laptops on pc mag. # - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

trying to set-up Streamy (the "new Friendfeed') - Bill Powell

Reading friendfeed on one monitor with 50 tabs open and watching the Second Life Citizen's Convention live music stream in Second Life on the other monitor. - SuezanneC Baskerville

LOl @Stephen P. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

to the wedding geek: sounds like sth. I'd be doing. lol - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

@Franc. I'm still reading this thread... Uber geek LOL - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

Playing with Google Wave - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Upgrading my desktop computer to Windows 7 - RobinDotNet

Setting up a Linux server and giving it a static IP address, manually assigned DNS server settings, restarting the networking stack, and pinging the router on my local network all via the command line in the Terminal. Also doing a traceroute from this Linux server inside a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro to my website at www.thebrentcameron.com to see how many hops it takes and the time it takes for each of those hops. So do I win or what? - Brent Cameron

My idea of optimizing Firefox is by uninstalling it. - Alex Knight

running macros on my G15 to bulk process 500 kids soccer pictures, while browsing friendfeed, listening to techno on headphones while my son watches star wars episode IV - Robert Higgins

Making my 4th LEGO city model of the day while watching 2 screens of FriendFeed (main feed + this thread). My wife is on Facebook on our hackint0shed netwbook while my 3 year old daughter plays games on the iPhone - Johnny Worthington

Just got my new iPhone 3GS. Recorded video and uploaded to youtube http://youtube.com/bryansays then used qik app to upload video as well http://qik.com/bryansays then took a pic and uploaded to my blog via posterous. :) - Bryan Lee from iPhone

Watching Conan the Barbarian, quoting far too much of it, analyzing too much of it altogether (like did they get all of the out of work Star Trek (original show) musicians together to do the score? It's way too similar.) - Lucretia Pruitt

Coding an iPhone application which connects to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and fetches RSS feeds off the web :) - Fahim

I dont know if this comes under the "tech" category! I am currently thinking ;-) Thinking if the human mind is really an illusion! - rampantheart

Taking some downtime from the SLCC as an opportunity to work on writing for my blog. - Tim Maly

Figuring out if I can get android running on a dell axim. - Jim Connolly

Scampering between sites/browser-tabs like a headless chicken is hardly geeky but that's what I've been doing this Sunday morning. Google Reader, Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter, Social Median, Lazy Feed, et. al. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Setting my Ruby on Rails environment up on my new Windows Laptop. I know it's the easiest platform to do it on, with InstantRails, but might install it on Linux, just for the crack :) And checking out the Mosso plans. - Steve Farnworth

running a twitter experiment #chromeexperiment to see if I could actually replace firefox with chrome. - Rohit

Writing a custom extension module for vTiger CRM which combines data from two other modules and working on my custom Layout Management & Authentication Libraries for the CodeIgniter MVC framework which I intend to release as open source when complete. - Usman Bashir

Umm, searching for iPhone formatted porn. Does that count as geeky? - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

Making a few more custom buttons for firefox. - April Russo (app103)

Answering stupid real-time contests on friendfeed. - Ben Pashkoff from twhirl

I am listening to Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte interview Michael Foord about Iron Python. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

fighting the headache with some reader and friendfeed...and maybe twitter...maybe not - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Configuring virtual server/machines and network - for home use... - Jemm from fftogo

Drinking my morning coffee..... - Roberto Bonini

it's unlikely to be me - checking friendfeed while things compile (contributing to a linux distro this week), reading up on vtiger (coincidence? someone is vtigering above), and wondering what's for lunch - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Reading Robert's friendfeed updates IS the geekiest thing one can do ^^ - Paul Papadimitriou from iPhone

And Coffee is the spring of all good ideas :) So it IS geeky :) - Roberto Bonini

I'm out on this one. Relaxing 'computer off' Sunday planned with my wife :) - Charlie Anzman

When this was posted? Sleeping. Hows that for geeky? - DGentry

Joelle: It has to be coincidence what else can it be. :) - Usman Bashir

changing the links under my flickr photos from my personal website to my twitter and facebook fan page. You've got to go where the traffic is! </geekiness> - Edward Barnieh

Trying to use lynx to browse the web, most sites fail - Aaman (Clone of FF)

reading all the comments above;p - zʍıɔ

Editing videos from my holiday - not geeky enough - and 8 hours late for this post! - Martin Bryant

We'll, when this was posted I was cutting some zzzs. Now I'm coding the privacy component for BuddyPress--a nice relaxing activity for a Sunday morning. Hum? - Jeff Sayre

Compressing and archiving a load of files on JungleDisk, trying to convert a Drupal module intended for use with the Twitter OAuth API to work with FriendFeed, and drafting the OpenStream specification... - Tyson Key

I'm organizing CloneFeed/OpenFF, the open source alternative to FF. Early stages though. - Jason Huebel from iPhone

Geeky/cultural - going through my favorite Woodstock performances on blip.fm. - jcunwired

....multi-tasking between sourcing UI icons for a new app, scanning FF live feed, coding PHP, browsing Seesmic and now commenting on a thread where i appear not to be geekiest person here on a Sunday. Oh, and now i have too many tabs open in firefox, so i'm using Safari as a fill-in. - Matthew Ogston

everyon'es working around me and im on friendfeed. lol - nivcalderon

Browsing Google Reader, Friendfeed best of day, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Social Median, Twine while copying a video off my Flip & uploading to Viddler... and on my iPhone: getting the Kindle & audible format of a @TedDekker book (Showdown) to take along on my kayaking trip down the Juniata river this afternoon. In the background, Mythbusters is busy figuring out how the Hindenburg blew up. - Courtney Engle

ohhhh.. i forgot: downloading my entire list of domains for backup before moving servers. Add FTP to the list. and drinking freshly ground coffee in my french press travel mug. The coffee was purchased from a Guatemalan farmer my sister met while there. - Courtney Engle

A couple of people have mentioned coffee. I just had my tea (I'm not from England). I think that may be even more geeky than drinking coffee! - Jeff Sayre

Playing Super Mario Bros. on NES. - ashish

I'm singing a song about robots with my one year old daughter ... "Robot parade... Robot parade .... Robots obey what the children say!" - Trent Hamm from iPod

Selecting photos + editing videos from the U2 360° Tour - I went to see last nite! Every geek will love the high-tech specs of the tour: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - stunning visuals! - Frank Da Silva

Reading FriendFeed to see what geeky things everyone is doing - Cathleen Rittereiser

http://rsscloud.org/ - Dave Winer

Backing my computer up to my home network, while using regedit and preparing to install Win7. Oh +Twitter and FriendFeed are running in the background :P - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

I'm backing up The Internet. And storing it in the cloud. - Micah Wittman

Micah +1!. Better than me - sister in law just dropped of HP laptop with Vista and said "it's slower now." so I get to play with the cleaning of spyware and the uninstalling of a billion little apps that HP feels are so necessary that they should be part of startup just to ensure that it takes a full 5-10 minutes before you can use the machine. But I'm not bitter. - Michael Pardee

I'm commenting on this post. Can life get more "geeky?" - Jimmy Walker

Configuring a Sonicwall router. - Norm McKenzie

Writing code in Scala. - Joey Gibson

I'm crocheting but I don't think that counts. I'm ripping out am old unfinished to use the yarn in a new project. Next up: a slouchy beret using DPNs then circular knitting needles. - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from iPhone

I am redesigning some code for my intelligent search engine which I have been working on for over 12 years now! http://www.cleversearchengine.com - Benjy Felsham

reading friendfeed and catching up on my rss feed on google reader. - Fuad Arshad

OK - and now - in English! WOW - I only "get" about a third of the comments! feeling very ungeeky! - Robyn Hawk

I am wasting my time by writing comments on FF .. it's slightly after midnight in Central Europe now. Shower and bed next! - Jan Horna

Ditched my wife at the airport to get free wifi. I'm flying virgin she's flying southwest. You snooze you lose LOL - Jim Goldstein

Trying to decide about paying for Tweet Spinner . . . - MikeEllsworth

Writing custom PHP code that will pull data from a MySQL database to present a technical class schedule in WordPress. - Michael Carnell

Ripping Hogan's Hereos DVDs to make H.264 files for later playing on Apple TV. It's good to carry on in comments here as it shows FF that there is a continuing need and use of the FF ways of doing things. If this was on Facebook, I could not send a comment to Robert unless he friended me. Things are just so much tighter and efficient here. - Keith Rowland

About the only other thing we could ask for in comments, is comments on comments. - Keith Rowland

playing Ikariam and WoW while on FF and watching Nature - Heather

Using my phone to Skype, Friendfeeding on a netbook, playing sudoku on my ipod while watching Pulp Fiction. - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Converting/Creating Direct Response Television Ads to Direct Response Web Video and distribution http://www.directresponsetelev... closing deals before the site is even populated. - Jim Peake

I think Robert should announce the winners of the contest now:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Is there anything geekier than organizing a tech conference? Yes, organizing a science+tech conference: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... - Bora Zivkovic

following Scobleizer is pretty geeky - Shari Weiss

working on new version of picollator.com - Irina Yakhneeva

Installing IE8. - Rob Schieber

Reading on FF instead of working... - DAL

compiling Erlang - Brian Hendrickson

Define "real-time." - l0ckergn0me

_as if_ you can beat me :-) - Brian Hendrickson

Hey Chris - How are your Twitter ads going? Would be interested in the feedback you are getting. - Jim Connolly

OSgrid - paniaguai

& they say if u want to memorize something.. listen to it with ur left ear - iFarah

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really? interesting. I need to put this to the test sometime. - Dee S.

Unless you ask with a baseball bat in hand...both ears pay attention. - emon hassan

haha.. good one, E. - Dee S.

i think it has something to do with the side of the brain the heard info goes to.. not sure yet - iFarah

Could it be due to that video worm they talked about on their status blog recently? I know a few people that have been suspended recently with no explanation, but I'm assuming that's why. - Jesse Stay

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http://status.twitter.com/post... - Jesse Stay

Yeah, mine was recently suspended, but within a few hours was un-suspended. I would guess this is what it is, unless it sticks around. - Anthony Timberlake

It would be nice if they could leave the reason for the suspension. I imagine they just haven't got the architecture in place yet to do that. - Jesse Stay

Sure would be nice to have some sort of feedback and a way to communicate on it rather than just "POOF" - Anthony Teegarden

They said they're cleaning up infected accounts - Than R

Well, I was unable to get into Twitter a few minutes ago. Got a 404 error which is pretty strange...Seems OK now. - John Apps

Robert: http://status.twitter.com/post... - Jim Connolly

He shouldn't have been spamming then. - Brett Schulte

pwnt - Q B

The reason these Twitter issues are such a pain in the ass, is that Twitter usually will not respond to tech support emails or even return a tweet, when you have a problem. - Jim Connolly

I wonder why this happened. He'll probably get his account restored soon. Although I stopped following him because I wasn't interested in every single tweet. - Alex Knight

I hope he comes back soon as he is one of my favorite tweeters. Can anybody help him?? ~Christine - Christine Woollen

Mine was suspended yesterday. Wrote them an email right away. Back to normal today. - emon hassan

thanks for all your help with this scoble! i really really appreciate it. hopefully twitter will re-instate my account soon! - Jason Pollock

Jason - Out of interest, did anyone at Twitter actually email you? I have found them hopeless at tech support. - Jim Connolly

This is bad. - Louis Gray

I got suspended 1 week ago because I posted a link about a spammer (and stupidly included the spammers link to warn others) - the twitter bot then automatically marked me as suspended. They were quicky to fix it - Nick Halstead

There were an unusual amount of tweets coming form JP over the weekend - could be the reson - courtney benson

I'm back online! haha! my suspension was for just over 12 hours.. i wonder what happened... it must have been a glitch. thanks all so much for your support.. i really appreciate it!:) - Jason Pollock

Love the new look, man! - emon hassan

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The new look is much cleaner. Looks really good. One suggestion, when i click on the picture or the title "Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection", it would be nice if it took me back to the home page. I know there is a "Home" link. - Kenneth Chu

Kenneth, good point. I think Aaron is going to add that in still. I agree clicking the masthead should take you home. - Thomas Hawk

by the way Aaron did a fantastic job with the conversion of my blog from Blogger to WP that included at least one very major problem (blogger in the past limited comments transferred out to 5,000). He's going into business for himself -- if you have blog or web projects I'd highly recommend his work. - Thomas Hawk

Welcome to the family. :) - Matt Mullenweg

seriously, that friendfeed box on the right hand bar ruins the design. either change your master contrast from red to baby blue or nuke that distracting box... I understand the need to link other profiles but bringing in an ugly duck is simply wasting the precious amount of time to create this simple and elegant design. I suggest converting the mini icons of your elsewhere profiles to grayscale and placing them instead of friendfeed box. - Berk D. Demir

@Thomas - going off of Berk's comment, if you are using the FF box to link to your other profiles, I'd suggest the Social Homes WP Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend...) or just mess with the CSS for the FF box. - Justin Korn

Hey Thanks Matt. About time, I know I've been meaning to get over to WordPress for a few years now. I've been playing with it all day and absolutely love it. Aaron's working on some things to keep the blog steady with the load it gets but other than that I think we're 99.9% there. I really love the picturegrid plug in he just added. - Thomas Hawk

I know what you're saying about the FF badge not quite fitting in with the color scheme Berk, but I think I'm going to leave it as is at least for now I think. The color scheme is part of FF's identity and branding and at least for now I think I'll go with it unless I find something that looks even better. I'll check out that other plug in as well though Justin. - Thomas Hawk

Looks great Thomas - Santa CW™

Hey TH; Aaron; I can't seem to get to thomashawk.com now - I could however last night; seems DNS is playing up for me - hope everyone else can see it? - Phill Price

OOO for me as well - Guillaume Lemoine

I've been on the phone with the hosting company. Hopefully will have it back up soon here. Completely unrelated to my WP conversion it looks like they had a network outage last night. They are going to reroute me to new IP addresses which should have it back up in a bit they say. - Thomas Hawk

Nice one. Welcome to Wordpress! - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

yeah, looks like the blog is back up now. Hopefully it stays up now that the networking issue with singlehop seems to be fixed. - Thomas Hawk

I'm glad you found a happy home. I like the dark background though, but then again, I'm a minority I suppose. - Mark

Just found myself at the new thomashawk.com for the first time. Looks great and I'm glad to see you on WP. Congrats! - Daniel J. Pritchett

I love your new site! How about a new photo of yourself? :) - Midori

love the new look, second the suggestion on new photo of yourself :) - Cindy Gan

hmmm... someday I'll need to do another photo of myself. :) - Thomas Hawk

Love it, Thomas, very clean and clear look. - Sally Church

Noway! - Mark Dunne from IM

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Hahaha. Thats great - Simon Wicks

Sorry for the person who had to check and find out. ;) - emon hassan

Don't even want to ask where you found this - Mirco

She's not your mum! She's a man, baby - Shevonne

You never know sometimes. Especially in San Francisco. - Thomas Hawk

When will it be released, started to watch the other clip - Looks like something i could use daily :) - Opps seen the Songsmith site ready for download now. Exciting :D - :( Download Not working - Adam Phillips

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Integrate with http://ejamming.com and http://indabamusic.com and now we're talkin'. "Scratchpad" is definitely the right approach. - michael silverton

Adam: it's available now. - Robert Scoble

Adam: I too am getting "Missing Page We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found." at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us... But *must* call it a night and try tomorrow! - michael silverton

michael: they are working on the problem. The installer should be available shortly. - Robert Scoble

I'll be patient. Still not working. But good things come to those who wait :) - Adam Phillips

Working now. Refresh the page. Excited! - Adam Phillips

anyone remember Microsoft Music Maker? (old, but it was cool too) - Tal Muskal

I guess this is their answer to Garage Band? - Chris

Whoa. Nice! Death of Karaoke?? Who needs other peeps' music when you can write your own. - emon hassan

Looks like MS Research changed the download link for the SongSmith demo - it's now http://ftp.research.microsoft.com/downloa... - Chris Poirier

A 6 hour timebomb on the demo? Seriously? - Chris Poirier

Oh, this is ex_iting indeed. Knew there was a GOOD reason to have XP on the Ma_Book. _an't wait to play with it. - Jan McLaughlin

Robert I know you are swamped and probably not getting a chance to see this, but if you can make the CES Tweetup at HP Friday, I'd love to have you. Please RSVP here: http://twtvite.com/7femhg - Ari Burton

Truly awful programme, waste of hard drive space tbh. - yodhe

@yodhe and i'm guessing you would say the opposite about garageband? - Aaron Eaton

Neither - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

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We are arguing about that on the CES bus. Geeks! - Robert Scoble

Canon 5D MKII hands down. - Andrew Hyde

pro for sho - Bradley Will

Canon camera. I need a great camera more than a Mac - Keith - @tsudo

5d Mk II - Scott Loftesness

5D MKII, since I've already got a Mac Pro. ;) - Cory OBrien

Have a Nikon D300 and my old MBP is on the fritz, so this woud be a slam dunk for me - Gregg Gallagher

17 inch MBP because I love it. Then I'd buy a cheap 40D. I get more use out of a laptop than I do a camera. - Michael Yurechko

Apple 17-inch MacBookPro with a matte screen. - Arturo Puente

People who get a good cannon keep them forever, I go through a macbook every few years - Michael Struening

Macbook Pro. Only because I'm a Nikon fan. D300 is definitely my choice of camera ;) - Tamar Weinberg

mac - David Banes from IM

Mac - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

Would have to be the MacBookPro - Jason Townsend

The Canon. A solid peice of hardware and I'm after a camera - Mo Kargas

5D MKII of course. - Jeremy Franklin

The Canon. I'd have so much more fun with a zippy camera than a Big Mac. - Mike Neumann

Probably the computer. I'm happy with the first gen 5D I'm about to buy and as awesome as the camera is, the MBP doesn't need another $5K in lenses. - Derrick

Neither, you need at least twice that for glass & equipment to get the "rig" you should want for a Canon MKII - sorry, 3K isn't enough for that toy; and spending 3K on disposable technology (Mac equipment) isn't a wise investment. - Enrique Gutierrez

MBP....i miss my macs! - Brian Bufalo

5D MKII hands down. I can hold onto the memory cards until I get to a desktop :) - Austin

Without question: 5D mark II - Rodney L.

MBP - it's a means of production for me, once i make some extra cash with it I can always buy the 5D ;-) - Warren

which are you going to get more utility from? I'm guessing the Canon. - Peter Warnock

I already have a 5D MKII but I would take another one in a heartbeat, or a couple of nice L glass - Bill Pennington

5D Mark II..... no doubt. - Albert K

Canon, without a doubt. - Brad Butner

Definitely the MacBook Pro...but then again I'm not a photographer. - Charlie Flowers

Canon - Tyler (Chacha) from IM

Neither, I'd use it to buy food for a year. - Will Higgins™

Considering I can make quicker cash with my Photography work I would say the Canon 5D MKII and then I would buy the Apple 17 inch MacBook Pro with some of my earnings! - Patrick Greer

5D Mark II. And then throw the remaining towards some new glass. - Andy Hannon

2k into the bank, 1k for computer upgrades and other stuff. - Grant Bierman

5D Mk II everytime ... unless I don't have a Mac at that particular time ... - Stephen Taylor

I would go for the Macbookpro - Troy Malone

5D MKII...already have a MacBookPro and I'm willing to ditch my Nikon gear! - Dan Shust

Canon 5D MKII since I already have the 15" MBP. - Alan Le

I don't need either one--but I think the Canon would have much better resale value--so given the choices: Canon. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Canon 5D MKII - for sure! - I really want one.... :( - Brad

MBP - not a photographer - Matt Faulkner

A 50D and a fast lens. ;-) - D. Lambert

I've already got the 15" unibody so I'd go for the 5Dmkii - Sparky

If I didn't have a laptop, then I would get the 17" MBP. If I already had a lappy, then get the camera... - William Sellers

Well, I recently moved from a 30D to a 5DMII because it was a huge upgrade for my "system". With a 2 year old Macbook Pro still serving me well for my needs, it's an easy decision. Additionally, I can't see using a 17" notebook over a 15 for portability sake, I'd just as well get an iMac and keep using my Macbook Pro for mobile use. - Ryan

Aren't you in Vegas? I think there are a few other options in front of you.. - LA Snark

5D!! - Wil

The camera. I have a new macbook already. - Jim Williams

The 5D is more than a $3k investment. It's $3k upfront but thousands in lenses, flashes and other gear over the years. - Michael Yurechko

Canon 5DMIII... - Greg Kamer

MacBookPro 17-inch. I am a Nikon guy. So, Canon 5D MKII if I had $7K for all the lenses, too. - Chintan Zaveri

The camera! I already have the 15" MBpro. 17" is just too big. - Sherry Main

My 1 yr-old MacBook doesn't thrill me; it sits on the desk unused, and I just couldn't pay more than $200 for a camera, unless I was dreadfully rich. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

5DMKII - sell some images on istockphoto, and then buy an MSI Wind and install OSX. It is faster than my 15" MBP! - Darren Mak

Definitely the 5D MkII - Christopher Chan

$3,000 worth of NOODLZ - Bwana ☠

MBP. I just got a brand new camera. - Mistletoe Glen

100 shares of CRM ;D - barl0w

What would I do with a Mac? - drsPIX

5D MkII - want! I already have a Mac, iPhone, 2 PC's and a laptop. <sigh> gadget budget is small right now though. - Jim Bergman

canon 5d. already have a 15 mbp - Kiran Patchigolla

5D MK II You can always get the Mac later. - Yu Yu Din

I'd pay my bills and buy some groceries. - ::Kristen::

Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro. - Chris Luckhardt

What's an Apple 17-inch MacBookPro and why would a person need one? - Michael Krigsman

Mac book pro - Randy

MacBook Pro because I have neither a mac or digital SLR and the Mac does many things where as the canon does one thing well/ - Bryan Lee

Canon 5D MKII - منــــصــــور

I'll take the MacBook Pro - Rob

MacBookPro...or a Martin 12 http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product... and use the difference to buy a copy of logic pro for my 15" macbook pro - Armen Chakmakjian

I'll go for the MacBook. My heart beats nikon so.... - studio_juan

5D MKII - do you want to lug around that 17" beast? - nicholas einstein

MBP - already have a nice Canon - but my Mac sits firmly on my desk - shaun mclane

MacBook Pro, but I would need another $1200 for the 8GB of RAM. - Shawn Hickman

5D MKII. Even though I already have one. - Kathleen McGivney

Neither. Maybe 3 coins :). I have a Macbook Pro which I don't use often comparing to my PC. I am not into the consumer electronic stuff, only got a digital cam last year :). - dexin

Canon. Can't believe Apple ditched the matte screen on the 17" - FCP users and photographers don't want a glossy screen - the idea of the 17" is the ability to use it out in the field for photo/video editing. - Peter Clayton

So limiting, Robert! If I could pick whatever I wanted, I'd get one of those sweet Asus multi-touch netbooks coming out - and then use the rest to buy Yahoo! stock. :P - Shawn Farner

MB 13'' and the external cinema display. MBP17 is huge to carry out - Jean-Charles VERDIE

canon - jtothea

17" MBP FTW! You should create a poll on SocialToo.com Robert, then we can see graphed results! - Joseph

Craigslist in Cincinnati - 5D for 1200: http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/ele... - D. Lambert

Wow, what a great argument! 82 comments in 17 minutes! - Robert Scoble

MacBook Pro. I really, really, really want a new laptop even though my current MacBook works just fine. - Nation Hahn

Camera. Droooooooooool. - Alix Whitmire

Well part of it would have to go towards fixing my car, http://preview.tinyurl.com/9dz2kz. Then the rest would go towards buying a second camera body to be my main and at least one lens if not two. Then the rest would go towards bills. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Robert: Apple products plus awesome SLR cameras...response is a given :) - Mo Kargas

the camera is nice - especially all the HD video. friend of mine in the movie post-production business reckons this sort of Camera will KILL the movie camera business in a few years time. especially at the low-budget movie (<$30 million) of the movie business. RED already making big inroads. much cheaper than an ARRI. - Scot Mcphee

The MK II as I already have the MBP 17 inch...older but it works. - Semipro

Canon 5D is the winner for me. Great digital photography is the gift that keeps on giving.... ;-) - John Uppendahl

Well.... Given that I have 4 PC desktops, 2 PC laptops, and 1 iMac, all of which are operational and regularly used, AND that I suck at photography, I'm going for what's behind door #3: A whopping big HDTV -- which will get hooked up to the living room PC, of course. ;-) - Joanmarie

17" Mac. Already have a camera. . . - Scott Whitney

Nikon D3 - Bill Sanders

Macbook Pro for me. Would be my first Mac. - Jim Bednarz

Nikon D3 - ThePicMan

MacBook Pro. Don't need such a super-duper crazy camera. Not a real photographer. But a very real Mac geek. - Louis Gray

5D for sure! - Daniel Pourasghar

I'd go the MacBook - but I'd also load it up with the full 8gb of RAM I see as an option (and not many people mentioning). Sadly, a nice 17" MBP setup it just over NZ$10k :( - Mark Derricutt

MacBook Pro. Hands down. I'm a computer engineer, not a photographer. - Logan Leger

well since I've already got a Canon 5D Mark II... hmmmm... - Thomas Hawk

I'll buy neither. What I would rather do is try to buy one share of BRK-B if it gets to that price. :) - imabonehead

The 17" Mac Book Pro, I already have a 5D MkII ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

I'd buy the camera, I have always loved photography and wanted to learn. - R. Ferguson

The Canon, all the way man!! - Finding The View

Apple! I don't like the fact of the hd video recorder on the 5D and I want the Sony alpha! - Brandy Lea

Canon. 15" MBP is the largest I'll go. - ronin

I would take the cash and build an ultimate gaming PC !!! :D - ralphsaunders

When you buy an inexpensive camera, you really sacrifice quality, and that lack of quality endures (you want to keep your photos forever, right?). When you buy an inexpensive computer, that's not the case (I don't need a unibody case :) - David Andrzejewski

Canon 5D - easy answer! - Susan Beebe

Ouch, this one hurts. I suppose I can't opt for a Nikon equivalent to the Canon? If this is the choice, I'd opt for the MacBook Pro. But if I had 3K, I'd buy myself the Nikon D300 - Karoli

The Canon. A 17" laptop is too big unless you plan to use it as a desktop. - Hartley Spurlock

Mac for sure.I have a first generation Macbook and I need a new one. Kaya Singer - Kaya

I'd pay off my credit card. For all that stuff I, like, already bought. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

the Macbook pro but only because I need to upgrade my computer. - Anna Lynn M.

the Camera for sure - Tai

5d Mark II - Jauder Ho

None - a super-gaming rig. :) - carrotmadman6

Definitely a Canon 5D. - Maria Colacurcio

5D Mark II - Hands down. - Seagate

I would save it until I had between $8-15K for a CO2 laser cutting machine. I like my macs small, and while full frame sounds nice, I know I'm not nearly hungry enough to go pro in photography, so 40D suits me just fine. - Jason Wehmhoener

That's a tough one because I have been wanting to get my first Mac (have to start somewhere, right?!) but am a hard core Canon fan/user. So if push came to shove, I would have to go with the Canon. - Laura Zickus

Mmm, CO2 lasers. - Mo Kargas

That would be either a trip to another continent or a Fujitsu LifeBook P1630, but it would not be either of the options in the question. I seriously cannot understand $3k for a camera, unless you're going to make that money back in a month or two WITH said camera. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Neither, I would invest in the stock market. - DGentry

I'd prefer a D300, however no matter what brand I'd take the camera in a second over the MBP. Save up another $500 and get a Windows Notebook as well. - Kenton

The Canon 5D MKII for sure. Cameras bring me a lot more joy than flashy computers. Though a 17-inch MacBookPro would be nice to edit those new photos on too ;-) - Ian Holton from twhirl

Probably the Mac. I would never carry around a DSLR. Too big. - Rodfather

Neither. The new full frame format with HD Movies (wow! Woopee *rolls eyes*) is crap - only 3.9 FPS?! Who are they kidding?! - Adam

Seeing my Macbook Pro is 5 months old. I would buy neither...but I would buy a MacPro with more RAM. - Ryan

I take a cruise with Lindsay - big ass stateroom. - Chrimmus Tad

Neither, I'd get a Canon Rebel XTi and build a new gaming PC, anything left over would go toward the new home NOC - xero

I would take my lover to Italy :) - Maryam Scoble

The Canon 5D, I find the photographic process calming, a welcome diversion from the ones and zeros. - cornedbeefgents

Awwww :) - Mo Kargas

Nikon D700 - Rod Bauer from twhirl

There's one in every crowd. - Rod Bauer from twhirl

If I had the $3,000, Canon 5D and a larger donation here http://tinyurl.com/daniela Pros: it's more portable, takes better pictures, and connects to my more compact 15" Macbook Pro. Of course, it doesn't work with my Nikon lenses, so... - Lee Dale

Canon 5D MKII only cause I have a Macbook Pro. If I didnt it would be the Macbook. - Bob Maltais

Nah. Patrick's college fund. 5D Mark 2 or the Macbook isn't all that exciting. - Joshua Hayworth

cannon.I kill computers, so not worth spending 3 grand on one. Plus I have a (beat up) macbook pro already. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

Photos shoot at 3.9 fps, video shoots at 30 fps. @AdamGiovane - Jim Bergman

The MacBook of course. - Rob Fahrni

mac - Vishy

5D, but I wish it had XLR audio. - Gus

the new MBP, without a doubt ... my current ones needs a refresh (I'm accepting donations btw) ;-) - Jeffrey Canton

Since I'll be getting the new MBP anyway, I'll take the 5D. BTW, is anyone keeping score? - Brad Kligerman

I would buy the Canon, but of course, I would need a MacBook Pro in order to edit/view the photos the way they were meant to be viewed. - Robert Peña

Blatant self-promotion, but if Robert used re-searchr.com it would keep score for us... I wrote it to suck down inline multiple choice selections so no ne would even have to leave ff - James Ostheimer

Robert, you're asking the question that's been pondering in my mind from some time (albeit it used to be with the 15" and Cinema display v. 5D/a900/D700 -cannot make my mind-). I want to be able to make a decision before March. I think I'll be going for the Mac, since I might relocate in part of the world where carrying an expensive piece of art around my neck might be more dangerous than here, in JPN. - Paul Papadimitriou

I'd go for a MBP, mine needs an upgrade and I just bought a 50D not long ago which is just fine for me. - Andrew Trinh from Nambu

I need cash! :) - Randy

Some of us are Nikon people. Some of us are not Mac people. I'll just take the 3 Gs. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Nikon D700 + 50mm 1.4 prime lens! - Guillaume Lemoine

More lenses. My camera is fine, and this Thinkpad is a good 'un. - Paula W

Seems like Apple design the 17-inch MacBookPro just can use in 3years.the battery can only use in 1000 times,1time per 1day,3years.But Canon 5D can take more beatuful pics for me,and can stand by me more than 3years.if i really have 3000dollers,i real do this.kick off 17-inch MacbookPro. - jedorstar from twhirl

Lenses, like Paula sez. - Rob Kramer

Buy half and half :) - Michael Forian

Wow, I came late to this convo. Well, for what it's worth at this point, I'd probably get the lappytop, sell my old MBP and then use THAT money to buy a cheaper camera. :D - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Canon 5D MKII, no doubt. I have a 1.5 year old 15-inch MacBookPro which is still more than OK. Going from Canon 400D to a 5D MKII however would be a major upgrade. - Rutger Blom

Macbook I think. I have a 40D but REALLY want the 5D. Which do you think you could get your hands on first? - Andrew Smith

The 5D. The MacBookPro can wait. - Chris Nixon

5D, I have enough laptops as it is. - Amit Morson

The $2800 MBP becomes a lot more compelling when converted to 2080€. - Brad Kligerman

I'm a Nikon guy but the 5D MKII has me seriously considering a switch - Bryan Thatcher from twhirl

As I don't like Macs and into my photography the choice out of the two is simple. :-) But I've rather spend the money on say the Nikon D3 and if you gave me an extra grand or 2 then I'd go for the Nikon D3X. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes from twhirl

Without though, the Canon 5D MKII. First up, you don't want to trust another "first gen" Apple product. And with the unimpressive lineup yesterday, maybe the 15" laptops are coming out real soon now, with similar features, and all quirks ironed out - Colin Charles from twhirl

MAC!!! - Orli Yakuel

(Friendfeed needs a poll feature) - Jérôme Flipo

5D over the MAC Pro. - Robert Miller

MacBookPro - just bought myself a nice camera with a fracking big lens! - Joel Hammond-Turner

Canon! - Janet

Canon. I have a laptop and rarely use it - well not as a laptop. It sits on a desk as a permenant fixture. - Ian May

Canon 5D mk 2 :) - Joe Dawson

Camera, I never liked the 17". It's too heavy for a "portable" - Melissa dela Merced from twhirl

neither, a big ass HDTV :) - Terry O'Fee

17-inch macbookPro is way too big. so I would go for the camera. Problem is I would need to learn how to use it then... - Davide D'Incau

If you have good lenses to take advantage of the MKII (extra $3000 needed here), go for the camera! - Joao Pedro

I would buy a Apple 17-inch macbook of course.! I don't have an apple and I would really like one. I have a camera thats good enough for me. - Qbat

nor this neither that! i will send money to help people in Gaza or at least I'll send 1000 $. - خیزران kheyzaran

canon 5d mk ii based on the videos I've seen - i mean just look at these http://is.gd/cP6x - planetMitch

The Canon, surely. No use for a laptop that big. - Ryan Sholin

5D over here too - Simon Wicks

Macbook Pro 17! - Greg

The camera. Already have three computers but have no camera. - Martha

I am not pro enough to need the 5D, I am actually looking at a D60 or D90. But the 17 Macbook is something I can use :) - TheSleepyGeek

I'd buy the Nikon D700 - David Parmet from twhirl

neither - cash is still king - viki saigal

its the lens, not the body - spring for L glass - @jessewright

MacBookPro - Stewart Rogers

New MacBookPro 17". I would probably get more use out of it than the Canon. But my, oh my, ya'll, the Canon sure is sweet. - Matthew Freeman

I have the glass. I have the Mac, I'd get the 5DMKII - stretta from twhirl

5D - I don't need a macbook. I'm happy with my PC and laptop - they cover my my needs perfectly. - Roberto Bonini

MBP. - Michael Molinar

Donate it to @armano. - Jim Mitchem

given my current status .. I am happy with my Canon XTi so I would go for the MacBook Pro. - Kapil

5D, but that's cuz I've been saving up for one. A new MBP would def. be on the list of future purchases (current computer is 3 years old) - Michael

Canon 5d Mk II, far more useful than the new laptop. More fun. One encourages you to sit around, the other encourages you to go out :-) - Richard A.

MacBookPro, Canon sux. (OK, relax, just kidding. I'm a Nikon guy. I have no Canon lenses.) - Trevor Carpenter

Canon!! - Ivy /composmentis from twhirl

I would buy the Mac, get a cheaper camera with the money I have left, and edit and enhance my videos using my Mac. - Shevonne

I'd go the Mac route. I'm looking to buy one anyway and I've already got a camera. Might not be as fancy as the Canon do-dad, but I'll manage. - James Ferguson

Wow 202 comments! How did I miss this thread? :) - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

17 inch MCP - johnpiercy

The 17" MBP as my current 12" PB is on it's last legs and needs replacing - need rather than want for me - Sally Church

The Canon. I already have a 17" MacBook Pro. - Carmen

The Canon... even though I already have a 5D and actually need a new laptop - Shawn Duffy from twhirl

Macbookpro - Roger Kondrat

I'd say the MacBook... you can do more with it. - Dejim Juang

EOS 5D - Julien Guyard

Canon, since the MBP that I'd want would actually cost $5823. Not $3000. - Ben Hwang from twhirl

This would be much more enjoyable if there was some kind of poll widget along side comments. - Michael Leggett

The camera..I find apple laptops overpriced for what they offer. - Nick

Would be easier to see at a glance. - Richard A.

I'd by the largest HD display I could... - Clay Newton

Canon 5D MKII. huh.. no: a powerful Linux box - Thierry R. Andriamirado

The MacBookPro, I have a Canon 30d but I do not have a MacBook - Bob Gannon

I wouldn't want a 17'' monster of a MacBookPro and therefore would go for the Canon 5D MKII - Donald Townsend

Neither. Both are overpriced. If no other options; I'd go camera. - Wade Dorrell

5D, the 17-inch MacBook Pro is very big. Harder to find bags for it and its less portable. - seanb

bank it, put in matress, done need either of those things, we need smarter devices that tell us the likelyhood of use-longevitiy in them, "i'm a camera you bought last year, you used me 9 times, i collect dust, owner- please resist replacing me unless you really really really need to, and the data suggests you don't.." - Dan Rockwell from twhirl

Not enough to buy what I want with the Canon, and I wouldn't be caught dead spending $3000 on a laptop. What a waste! - Paul Puri

Neither. A $3000 laptop is not worth it just because of its branding. - Spencer

ohh.. I can't choose. I want both of them... But if i choose, first canon, second mac... İ have canon 40 d and 15'' mac book pro. And i don't like mac's new screen. It's like mirror... - devletsah

Spencer: as a recent PC to Mac switcher, it's more than brand. Much more. - Ryan

I'd buy a netbook for the other three members of my family and put the remaining $2000 toward bills or savings. :) - Steve Lowe

Agree with Aaron, love my 13" Macbook and really want the 5D MKII - Kyle

Definitely the Mac. - John Clifton

Is this thing still going? I can't remember if I replied to this yet, but I say it depends on what will benefit you the most. Robert, you are a photo-maniac. I know that you have a few cameras laying around the house, but I don't know how many Macs you have. You have to remember that a 17" laptop sounds great on paper, but I know that you do a lot of traveling as well, so it might now suite your means. Then again, I would never keep $3,000 dollars in my pocket ;) - Michael Forian

of course the mac - doesn´t matter what the second option is... - Dieter Schwarz

I would buy the Canon 5D MKII but being a Nikonian I would end up buying the MacBook Pro and feel no remorse :) - Carlos Lorenzo

MacBook Pro. I need a laptop really bad. - Nick Humphries

The camera. 17-inch laptops are fricking ridiculous. - Andru Edwards

camera and a box of junior mints - Morgan Haley

I'd definitely go for a MB Pro. My Rebel XTi and Panasonic GS180 video cam is doing me just fine. - emon hassan

Forget the Mac, keep your current camera, and buy better lenses. - Michael Krigsman

17 inch laptop is useless in term of mobility so I would go with the Canon - Hadar Weiss

A Sony a900. :) - Jeff Jones

Neither. I'd start with the Bonobo Pro Ubuntu Laptop for under $2000 and use the $1000 to max it out. http://system76.com/product... - Internet Strategist

Impressive amount of comments here, this has to be the highest ever now right? - Joe Dawson

I'm sorry, can you repeat the question: did you say a "camera", a "computer" or a "shark with laser beams"? - Micah Wittman

save the money for tougher times. as much as I'd like the Canon, it's going to be just an expensive toy for me. and my three year old Inspiron works just fine for the most things I do on it. - Franci Penov from twhirl

5Dm2 because I already have the new MBP 15" 2.8Ghz. Mostly b/c the cam is more revolutionary than the 17", even though the 17" battery life is enticing. - Thomas Bøhm

Wow, 250 comments - OMG ...FF is really growing ...YEAH !!! - Susan Beebe

Yeah, this week has produced several >100 comment threads in my feed. - xero

Not the 5D, but some body+the best lenses, that actually lasts longer. Laptops are out of date in months and often die within 18, cameras and lenses last a lot longer - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I would buy a Apple 17-inch MacBookPro, only cause I already have a SLR, so I dont need the Canon 5D MKII. - Colide81 (James)

I would not spend it, id rather invest 3000 dollars with 10 shares of google - Kyle Weller

then just buy lenses - you probably already have a computer that can do everything you need - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Exxon-Mobile. Oh wait, what was the question again? - Erik S

Neither- new hardware for the pending Win7 beta drop. :) - Randy Holloway from twhirl

both! - jortai

@Ryan I am a Mac user, have been for a while. It's just my opinion, but $2800 for a piece of hardware in which you can the same or better specs on a PC, is quite a bit of branding. - Spencer

Using the MacBook Pro 17 inch now (love it!)- and I am quite happy with my Canon Powershot G9, so I'll just take the cash and pay down some of my debt--thanks! - Kelly W.

Canon 5D MKII then buy the 15" MacBook Pro later. - John Wang

I would buy a new fast lens for my old 5D (around $1000) and save the rest. - Alexander Arsky

Nikon E90 *and* a 15" Macbook. :) I bend rules. - Daniel Miessler

Nikon E90 like Daniel :P - Molly, "sorry"

I already have the mac so I would take the Camera. - WilliamMuncrief

is someone tabulating these answers? - Mistletoe Glen

Canon 5d MKII, i'm not a mac person so that was easy. - Squid

I've been back and forth on this since the 17" was announced. I am very likely to upgrade to the 5DMKII this year. But I want a more powerful laptop to work on the huge files it creates. Chicken? Egg? Confused. - Jeremy Brooks

Canon 5D MKII for sure. MBP 15 is still chugging along after 2 years. And the 5D is still doing great after 1 year, but I would really like the new 5D. - Johnny Sewell

5D Mark II , without a doubt! - americanm

Caonon 5D all the way - John Uppendahl

"Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher – who earned 15 minutes of fame by challenging Barack Obama's tax plan during last year's presidential campaign – wants to be a war correspondent. Wurzelbacher tells a local TV station he will travel to Israel to cover the war in Gaza for PJTV, a video site that's part of the conservative blog network Pajamas Media. In an interview with Ohio's NBC24, Wurzelbacher says he wants to get the perspective of "Average Joes" in Israel. As for the danger of working in a war zone, he adds: "Being a Christian I'm pretty well protected by God I believe. That's not saying he's going to stop a mortar for me, but you gotta take the chance." Anybody else think this is a terrible idea?" - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

I thought Joes 15 minutes were already up! - Jeff P. Henderson

Anderson Cooper...watch out!! :) - emon hassan

*LMFBO* I support ths bailout. Ppl do need smethn 2 boost their saggin "spirits" in thse depressin times. SAVE PORN SCREW THE OTHERS - Aloch Rye

Larry Flynt -""With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind. It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America." LOL...very true - Aloch Rye

:) - emon hassan

haha, Flynt will do anything for publicity. - Thomas Hawk

Beyond funny!!! - Jeff P. Henderson

I totally don't understand this metaphor. How is social media like wine? - Michael Krigsman

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I fully disagree with this. Wine is much better than social software - Loic Le Meur

d'accords, Loïc! - Prolific Programmer

Loic is dead-on right with that one! - Michael Krigsman

I am enjoying some Merlot. Wine improves social software. - Robert Scoble

Here here Robert. Enjoying some organic Carmel Valley merlot here. - Jason Wehmhoener

Indeed it does, Robert. Indeed it does. - Akiva Moskovitz

I'd like to say I understand this, but I don't. :) - emon hassan

@mkrigsman You need to drink the wine before attempting to decode the metaphor. Drink enough wine and it will be clear. - Michael Markman

If Social Media is like wine than Twitter is like beer:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Drink enough wine and the code will decode itself. - Michael Krigsman

Maybe it should read "some" social media are "like wine" (huh?) since the original Twitter-er apparently doesn't consult "media" (plural, ie FriendFeed...) where people actually try to understand such cryptic statements. - Brad Kligerman

If so, it's best served fresh. Think beaujolais nouveau. - Nick in Manila

"With both social media and wine, to become expert in it, the biggest barrier to entry is not intellectual prowess, but time i.e. with both, you don't have to be a rocket scientist, you just have to spend a lot of time studying it." Is that clearer? - Hugh MacLeod

much clearer, Hugh. Thank you. - Valeria Maltoni

I love the title. Great meme. - phil baumann

It's the inevitable pollution of a simple service. I hate it too. - mikepk

Hehe. Go on, how many of you misread this as 'Robert' behaviour....! - WorldofHiglet

Been thinking about this in the last 10 minutes or so... my first perspective was that an auto 'thanks for following' without links was a good way to keep a personal touch.. I turned it on without thinking 'oh that's a nice touch' when i first started using Twitter earlier this year. I've never tried not having it on. So, for now I have turned it off and will see if it makes any kind of difference. - Wendy Peters from twhirl

I'm starting to see a lot of debt 'cleaner' folk on Twitter too. - emon hassan

Rome, New York and Cuba - Johnny Worthington

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Antarctica, Africa, Japan, someday I'll get around to all three. - Thomas Hawk

Now that I think about it, I could do with about 10 more options :) - Johnny Worthington

I have yet to discover someone who: 1. is passionate about photography 2. lives near me *AND* 3. wouldn't mind teaching me to share their passion. When I do, I think I can revisit this post. Liking to be able to do so. - mjc

Greek Islands, Paris, Rome - Sean Alexander

Tokyo & Africa. I have nice shots from Cuba, is a magic place to take photos. - Nicolas Caitan

Christmas Island, New Zealand and Antarctica. Headed to Bodie, Mono Lake and Yosemite today... - Jauder Ho

Vietnam (I went without a DLSR and regretted it) and Africa....can't decide on my 3rd - Benjamin Golub

Giza (egypt), China, Japan. I've shot in Giza, but it was about 20 years ago. Would love to go back there with more knowledge of photography. - jerry

Aleppo (Syria) , Toscana (Sienna), Guadeloupe (F.W.I.)...and many many more - Olivier

Australia's Great Barrier Reef (once I get that underwater housing), Mardi Gras, and perhaps Egypt for the third. - Becca

Cartagena (Colombia), Portugal (All over the place), Japan. Travel photography is my favorite kind of photography. - Juan Pablo González

Portugal for sure! - Johnny Worthington

India, Japan, Brazil. - Melissa

@Olivier: I completely forgot about Syria. Yeah, I'd love to have full access to shoot Petra - jerry

Yemen, Kashmir, Deserts of Arabia - imran

This is a really difficult question, but one that'll be a lot of fun to mull over all day. - Dave Roth

Cambodia, Peru, Greece - BeeLing

New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand :-D - Kol Tregaskes

@jerry Petra is in Jordan. Amazing to walk down the Siq and have the treasury appear from nowhere. I have traveled to lots of the places mentioned and my biggest regret is not doing more people shots. They have so much character but I don't have the confidence to photograph, especially in a Muslim country. - CJPhoto

Chernobyl (city), the abandoned V-2 rocket base at Peenemünde, and the reefs around Rotan. - Chris Baskind

Ditto Thomas Hawk. My answer exactly. - Ayşe E.

Prague, Istanbul, Utah canyonlands - jcunwired

When I worked in the camera store processing photos the best photos came from Alaska and Africa. Those are still the two places I want to visit that I haven't yet visited. - Robert Scoble

That's tough one...Egypt, Greece, and China...as of now. :) - emon hassan

New Zealand, Africa, Greece - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

Alaska, Wyoming, Canada - Chris Mayer

Greece, Cuba, Nepal - Andre Maltais

Tuscany, New Zealand, Antarctica - andrei_c

South Africa, Iceland, Peru - Mistletoe Glen

Something other than my index finger :-) - Todd Hoff

todd wins! - Johnny Worthington

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