I might add a fisheye to my webcam having read The Aggregate's article on creating a sub-$20 fisheye camera.
Nathanaël Lécaudé is working on the Max toolbox which makes working with Max/MSP more efficient with nice hot-keys. Look at the demo video and decide if you give it a try.
Continuing with Quantz goodies I'd like to use him to comment on what to embellish and what not to. We know that the French wrote down many (but not all) of the necessary embelishments and we know the French almost didn't embelish compared to the Italians who could be accused of overdoing it. I assume the Germans did it as well, being inspired by ...