First is Remember The Milk for Quicksilver. Quicksilver is by far the best addition you'll ever add to your Mac setup. At its least it is an application launcher. As you delve deeper it can interaction with multiple services and information sources on a command-line level. Example. From anywhere on my computer I now do this:

Control+space = bring up Quicksilver
"." (starts text input)
"this is a thing I need to do" = type in my to-do list item
TAB (moves to the actions list)
type "R" = sets that text to go to my online to-do list, RTM
Enter = submits that to-do list item to my list

From there, I have that to-do item available in Gmail as a sidebar widget, on the RTM site, or on my iPhone in the application.

And if you really geek out (or use Firefox and Windows, thus don't have Quicksilver available) you can now install RTM for Ubiquity or one of their many other services.

The monome is a USB / MIDI / OSC interface. At it's most basic, it's a wooden box with a metal faceplate and an 8]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:13:54 -0800 http://virb.com/avclub/posts/text/1066520 http://virb.com/avclub/posts/text/1066519 Not coming as a shock to anybody I did not watch the Super Bowl last night. I only regret missing commercials. So let's crowdsource an effort to quell my need for knowledge. What one commercial do you deem as "Ken must see?"

I'd prefer not to have links to ALL commercials (like a clearing house site), just the 1-2 you think I shouldn't miss. Links are Ok, but google search terms are fine too.

And if not, we still have GI Joe.

The kit includes a magnetic ring that sticks to the phone providing a place to easily mount and dismount the attachment. The shots are wonderfully low-fi and I've found it to just be fun. This is not a high-quality lens by any means, but it is functional.

A few of the lens:

A few images from the lens:

(and just for fun, here's that same image tagged and noted on Flickr)