National Geographic sells the Earth Explorer series. Durable hemp canvas and plenty of padding; sew a patch over the National Geographic logo for stealth (or don't; looking like an NG photographer may be a pro or a con depending on where you're traveling).

I've got the medium, and use it extensively for traveling (albeit not with camera gear), and I'm more than impressed with the quality. I've visited three different continents with it as my only pack, and would buy it again in a heartbeat.

Keep in mind that NG apparently measures laptops differently than everyone else; it would be wise to try fitting your laptop into the bag before purchasing.

As someone WITH an XO laptop, I beg to differ.

See how much that $4 roll costs when everyone stops making MF film. Also, see how much it costs to get said rolls developed (if you shoot in colour -- developing your own B&W is something every photographer should experience).

I lived in South Korea from 2006 to 2007. DMB was prevalent back then; the one thing that I thought was really odd about the whole setup is that the DMB-enabled phones always had HUGE retractable antennae.

I'm not sure if this is still the case, but it was easy to pretend that the guy sitting across from you was trying to figure out his piece-of-shit cell phone from 10 years ago, rather than watching TV.

Oh, and for the record, the ONLY way I would get a dropped call is if I stepped into an elevator. In the mountains, in the valleys, hundreds of feet underground on the subway -- perfect reception.

Which wouldn't happen if you were just wandering around with a confused look on your face, taking video of your surroundings on a smartphone.

Unfortunately, app reviewers literally just install your app on a bunch of devices and tap around the screen to make sure nothing breaks, so any sort of hidden functionality will likely make it past the initial screening.

For the record... my app, Touch Health, will not steal your phone number.

Funny AND true!

How about a neo-luddite who buys a disc for the sole purpose of destroying it? Are they stealing?

No, of course not. That's retarded. Apple cannot and does not assume that everyone who purchases their OS own a Mac. You can't call someone's behaviour "stealing" if they're exchanging money for goods at the advertised price.

I suppose buying Gillette razor blades and then gluing them to popsicle sticks to shave with is stealing too, then?

THANK YOU.

Know why I chose iPhone for a dev platform? Not because I have an iPhone (I don't), but because I have an iPod touch, and so do a lot of other people. I write an app, and not only can iPhone owners use it, so can all the people who don't have/want an iPhone, but happen to have an iPod touch (most of my friends fall into this category).

I don't want to sign a three-year cell phone contract, and I certainly don't want to pay $700 for a phone without a contract. So I bought an iPod touch (less than $250 at the time), and a cheap phone that works. And guess what? It's great. If we start seeing more android-powered devices that aren't phones, but are just media players/web browsers/game and app platforms, we'll start seeing more people start to develop quality apps.

Haha. I recently quit a job where we were being pushed towards using SharePoint as a WCMS -- yes, SharePoint for public-facing websites. The API is trash, and it's extremely, EXTREMELY difficult to make a master page without being forced to use tables at least once or twice. Really annoying if you're trying to only use DIVs, and the first thing one of your controls renders out is a tag.