Geek Cinema: Kingdom of Heaven

Today's our first Geek Cinema column where we depart from the world of cognitive effectiveness for a moment to talk about...films and media from a geeky perspective.

In the first beaker boiling over a low flame, we have Kingdom of Heaven, the DVD. We watched this title last week and we came up with this notation, why bother with longish, inaccurate words.

Kingdom of Heaven = f(Phantom Menace(Quigon - JarJar Binks)(Gladiator)/(Lordof Rings)

The only 'hero' of the film really was Sa'lah Ad'din, the Kurd, in the service of the Seljuk Turks. The Crusaders were never able to hold Jerusalem again (despite the efforts of Richard the LionHeart who gets a little cameo at the end) until the coming of General Allenby and TE Lawrence and the decline of the Ottomans.

New sign-up for Game Central!!!

User notes: 10/24/05

We added a login screen for Game Central which serves as both a new user sign-up (very quick and easy) AND as a simple registered user login.

Here it is, so you can sign up - step right up:

An added benefit is we can tell you when we publish a new game, puzzle, or activity or can notify you with some news or other hot new development. It is accessed from the subdomain page, the home page and other landing pages and there is a variant with survey at Gamer-IQ since we want your feedback. Other changes: improvements to the login and clinical trial pages that we run with the Stanford/VA Alzheimer's Center, these are being cleaned up and will migrate from the 1.0 or 0.6 type of look and feel to something more appealing and functional.

In the news: is smoking good or bad for cognition - that's today's debate. We'll bring it to you shortly...

Exercise your keystrokes...

I hope everybody had a good weekend. Raiders won, 49ers lost, Stanford won, and Cal also squeaked by Wazzou, sounds like Joe Ayoob was able to focus with a capital F in the last minute and a half and guide a game-winning TD, unlike their loss a couple of weeks ago to the teddy bears of Westwood, or being chewed up like a sapling by some pesky Beavers

Here's a new game for you:



Play

This game challenges your key stroke ability since you have to do several things almost at once.
More on 'Bushido':

I posted some thoughts on bushido (the Samurai Warrior source code) at the Gamer-IQ blog, here is the link. This blog gives you a blow-by-blow account of our rollout of Gamer-IQ services, games and meta-games that basically can help you improve certain aspects of cognitive ability.