Josh
Wednesday
3:56 pm 
The chatter around the Geek6 offices has been about Halloween since the middle of August. I started my costume back then, although I’m getting cold feet about it actually working. Christy’s been collecting all of our fingernail clippings to create something that’s sure to provide me with nightmare fuel for months. … And Joe… well, let’s just say I’m never, EVER snooping through his browser history again.
But, if you haven’t started your planning yet, there’s still plenty of time to get a great costume together. I’ll get into specifics later this month, but if you don’t have an idea yet, consider these three key tenets to a successful costume — ..read more
Umm…this video makes me laugh and slightly queasy at the same time. Perhaps it’s because my parents have always had poodles and my first dog was a white standard poodle named ..read more
Joe
Tuesday
3:02 pm 
When Truman Burbank’s elementary school teacher discourages his wishes to be an explorer by proclaiming “Everything’s already been discovered,” it is a harsh rebuke, but one that is essentially true, at least on the terrestrial level. It’s usually the same way with large-level biological discoveries. Every few years you get one, like the bird with poisonous feathers, but it must have been so much more rewarding to be a scientist back in the day when making the determination that snakes were reptiles was considered a Nobel-worthy development.
Well, here’s a nice new one to get the breakthrough fans cheering. Austrian scientists have discovered that a species of newt actually pierces ..read more
Matthew Campagna is probably best known (here at least) as the co-host of BSGCast and YourGeekNews, but he’s also a successful independent filmmaker. He and his brother, Jeff co-wrote their first feature “Six Reasons Why” in 2005, shot it in 2006, and sold it to ThinkFilm in 2007. It was released in Canada and the US in 2008 and is currently available on iTunes and Amazon, as well as retail store like HMV and Best Buy. He recently wrote about the experience on his blog.
The Campagna Brothers budget, according to Matt, was nominal - “sit around, let your hair grow, sell it and you’d make enough ..read more
Alas my fair GeekSix readers I must leave you. As you may have noticed I have be a bit sporadic in my writings to you. I chalk it up to real life.
And now I will be out of action for yet another week due to this real life. I will be headed off to a professional national conference in San Antonio, TX.
San Antonio is my hometown, so there will be some fun to be had. As well as eating entirely too much Tex-Mex food and Taco Cabana breakfast tacos.
But on the flip side, my professional life as an academic advisor will have me in four days of sessions. Ahh to ..read more
The tech world went gooey this weak over the leaked shots of Microsoft’s Courier project. Their device, which mixes two 7-inch touchscreens into a hipster-style leather journal, is part PDA, part netbook and all sexy.
Inevitably, the Courier project will be destroyed by reality, focus groups and countless hordes of marketing people. But, for a sweet amount of time, this prototype exists without compromise. In honor of the potential of Courier, here’s a look at its inspiration, in the form of our 5 Favorite PDAs from Science Fiction.
5. Pip-Boy 2000 or 3000
Fallout 1, 2 and 3
If I was ever going to have a computer bolted to my arm for life, it’d ..read more
With the newest book in the Wheel of Time series about to be released the series has been on my brain. As in I kind of want to go back and re-read the whole series again. Though, the thought tires my mind and then I start to cop out and settle for reading the last few books as my thoughts wander to one of my favorite things, jewelry. So obviously Wheel of Time Jewelry makes me happy. Badali Jewelry Specialties, Inc has some fine pieces.
This is the Aes Sedai ring that I chose many years ago before Badali Jewelry Specialties, Inc had the license for the Wheel ..read more
Josh
Thursday
1:10 pm
My house has a handful of iPods, and as many as four Macs (if any of the regular readers moonlight as cat burglars, you should know most of them are really old). So, I guess I would qualify as a fairly rabid Apple fan. That said, the company has scored far from a perfect track record. Apple’s successes are almost as grandiose as their failures. To see the worst of them brought to life again, read on:
5. Apple USB “hockey puck” Mouse
I can remember the joy of ditching our newsroom’s Quadra 700s with monochrome screens for new, hot-list blue G3s. These things were screamers, and the morning that ..read more
We all know about G.I. Joe’s Knowing is Half the Battle and NBC’s gag-a-riffic The More You Know PSA’s (I’m sure some of you even remember the Saturday morning version called One to Grow On). But what about the PSA’s featuring kid centric TV and movie characters that ran during the commercials of our favorite ..read more
Josh
Wednesday
9:40 am
If you’re not watching True Blood, you should be. This HBO drama is a great crowd-pleaser, with enough violence and nudity for the fellas, while retaining the core feel of a bodice-straining romance novel for the ladies. It doesn’t pull many punches, and goes awfully far out on the believability curve (even for vampire dramas), but it’s wholly enjoyable.
But what if HBO had gone a more populist route, and turned the Charlaine Harris novels on which the series is based into a sitcom?
…then you might get something like ..read more
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