GeekSix

My Next Great Invention: Spy Contacts

Joe
Thursday
8:25 pm

Did you know that terror suspects, mob enforcers and women get spooked when stared at in public? Do you wish you could ogle/keep tabs on/both ogle AND keep tabs on these people?

POOF

Feast your eyes with the new Spy Contacts (not yet in beta)!  The idea is that these are one-way see through contact lenses that have a digital image of an iris on the front, and sensors on the back.  when your actual eye looks in a direction, the iris projection on the contacts looks in the other direction.  It’s like in post production of Episode 1 when Lucas changed which way Jake Lloyd was looking.  Only not really.

So now, ..read more

Axis of evil

Joe
Tuesday
10:26 am

As if the news from Chile wasn’t a big enough ..read more

Six over-the-top DVD box sets for the over-the-top fan of DVD box sets

Joe
Friday
2:23 pm

With the immeasurable wealth I’ve acquired from penning for this site, I recently built a 6-square mile mansion in the hills of Transylvania.  But I ran into a problem when trying to fill the wall-to-wall bookshelves in the Death Star-sized (and shaped) TV room.  You gotta really get creative to plug all that space.  So the only logical choice was to find the most ridiculous, over-packaged DVD boxed sets I could ..read more

Windows 787 is quite the upgrade

Joe
Thursday
11:25 pm

Boeing’s oft-delayed new jet, the 787,  has many useful attributes.  Like it is really light, so it saves on fuel.

I don’t care about ..read more

Kash for K’s

Joe
Thursday
11:50 am

Baseball games are always tough to get right.  The only serious game that’s worth its salt is EA’s MVP 2005.  So it makes sense that the next progression in the genre is to bribe players to play, with the allure of becoming a millionaire.  When MLB 2K10 debuts in March, the first player to pitch a perfect game against the computer on All-Star mode will win a million bucks.

The set up is a little fishy, since you have to physically record it and send it in, but it should spur sales a little bit in what is probably the least popular category of sports game.

I also think the ..read more

Joestradamus off by a month and an hour

Joe
Saturday
11:02 pm

During all the late night hubub in the last few weeks I remembered this sarcastic quickie I posted almost a year ago.

Stay tuned for some sure-thing spacehorse betting ..read more

Guybrush shot first: A special edition that’s worthwhile

Joe
Saturday
12:15 pm

Ever since the Star Wars debacle, “Special Edition” has had a “Mission Accomplished” sort of stigma to it.  Let’s hope those days are over.

I finally got around to checking out Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, and it’s a treat. Especially at 10 bucks off Steam.  The game itself is a virtual facsimile of the original, but every single frame has been hand-drawn and the cast from the later Monkey games have added voiceover of the lines that were originally just text.  But the coolest thing they did is added a feature where at the press of F10 the game switches over to the old version.  Even mid-sentence.  It adds ..read more

Getting fat off last suppers

Joe
Wednesday
10:18 pm

Even though LOST operates on a pretty unique premise and has pioneered some of its own rules — which it routinely tweaks (flashbacks, flash forwards, flash both, etc.), it’s also a show that doesn’t shy from conforming to fads seen in its peers.  Was it necessary to have montages of goodwill wordlessly portrayed while some weepy song plays over the goings-on?  No, but it worked on West Wing, so why not?  This isn’t necessarily laziness, it just allows for a visit to a well that they know has worked elsewhere before.

But their new production photos for the upcoming final season feel straight up rip-off-tastic.  Just like for Battlestar and House ..read more

Six games that could make for real movies

Joe
Monday
11:23 pm

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about the scarcity of serious movies based on video games.  Not serious in a drama vs. comedy sort of way, but a movie made to be a great movie, not to appease gamer fan boys.  So I looked up the Wiki page on movies culled from video games and… there are zero real efforts to make a bonafide piece of film from a game.  I don’t get why this is.  Considering how just about every good movie these days is based on a book, why can’t there be good movies based on games?  There are certainly enough games ..read more

Saturday Night Nursery

Joe
Tuesday
7:08 pm

Live from New York… it’s a three-year-old!  Well, close to it anyways.  I’ve been noticing SNL’s featured a lot more youngster hosts this season.  And that’s not a pining-for-Buck-Henry lament.  Age doesn’t make the host, as the game Zac Efron and the sleepwalking Robert DeNiro have proven.  But I decided to crunch the numbers over the past few years and see if the hosts this season really are more ..read more