Well, tonight just happened to be the night I was gonna get "serious" about working on a couple projects around the house.  That was, until I saw that my Chumby was delivered a day early!

Love the packaging, the feel of the unit, interface, etc., etc.  I played around with a couple standard widgets on my virtual chumby before my real one arrived, but when I got serious about adding more to my channels-- WOW, there are some awfully cool ones.  Big thumbs up on just about every aspect of the device-- design, functionality, endless possibilities to name a few.

A couple things, however: 

-Mine had a dead pixel which thankfully only shows up on some black screens (is there any technique to get it back in order?). 

-Also, when I touch the screen, even gently, the middle area warps a bit, like the lcd crystals are getting squeezed-- is this normal, or is there any potential for damage?  I cringe whenever some clueless co-worker of mine touches my LCD monitor at work, so it sorta freaks me out whenever I see that happen.

One other question: is there any way to play mp3's on the device from a usb thumbdrive without using an ipod?  I read about the alarm trick, but I'd like to be able to play a variety of songs at will.  I may try streaming music from Slimserver if I can figure out how to configure/run it on my Ubuntu machine.

Overall, big thumbs up.  Looking forward to getting a lot of use out of this thing.