The New York Times reports that Microsoft’s lat­est X Box game con­sole will fea­ture an optional “Web cam­era, code named Cyclops…”

Exactly how many com­puter cam­era devel­op­ment projects, over the years, do you sup­pose have been code-named “Cyclops”?

Prob­a­bly most. But not the SGI O2Cam, which for rea­sons that defy even the most imag­i­na­tive efforts of spec­u­la­tion was code-named “MooseCam.”