Geek Minds Think Alike?

A number of years ago at this point, I ran a poll to find out which people would prefer to see at their door, Dinah Shore or Dinosaur.

Well, in every issue of mental_floss magazine, Ken Jennings is asked to connect two disparate items in six steps (they call the feature "Six Degrees"). And in the current issue, the two items are… Dinah Shore and Dinosaur.

Tell Me Stuff: Technology Division

mabfan and I are looking to buy a scanner. We'd love to get one that also can be a fax machine. But we don't know what are the best ones, so we figured we'd ask here. Our current technological parameters are:

-- Needs to connect to a Mac iBook G4 running Tiger (OS 10.4)
-- Needs to be able to produce good-quality digital renditions from color and black-and-white photographs

So? Suggestions?