Jay’s Brainfart

Heat Vision and Jack was created as a 1999 pilot for Fox. Written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, directed by Ben Stiller, this series was passed over by Fox despite critical acclaim from those who’ve been lucky enough to see it.

The 30 minute pilot is about an astronaut (played by Jack Black) with a medical secret who is on the run from the evil Ron Silver and the rest of NASA, with the help of a talking motorcycle called Heat Vision (voiced by Owen Wilson).

How’s this for a slice of fried gold:

This is old-ish now, but it still makes me chuckle

I just saw this on gametrailers.com and had to share it - one of the most anticipated games that comes with Half Life Episode 2 - Team Fortress 2… this trailer is hilarious.

I’ve already blogged about streamy twice today…. but for some reason when I find out something new, it doesn’t seem to go with my last blog. ><

Anyway… Streamy beta invites were made available today, which I’ve made great use of (only one left!) and after a bit of maintainence early this morning, a few new features were implemented (site co-creator Jonathan Gray told me they were “hiding”… sneaky guy he is). The mashup with Google Maps I’ve already mentioned, but a nice feature is the “Upstream” facilities.

These are basically RSS-feeds from other social sites like Pownce, Jaiku, Last.fm, Digg, Twitter, Facebook and even Google Reader (the shared stories). You enter these in the profile screen under “Upstream Sources” by entering your username details, or URLs in the case of Facebook and Google Reader - this information is then fed to your own profile screen.

Here’s a couple of screenshots to illustrate - Firstoff, adding a username in the Upstream Sources section of your profile:

And below is what the incoming stream looks like on your profile:

More to come soon, if Jon’s sneaky hints are anything to go by. ;)

In my last blog (that I literally just added…) I advised that there were no Streamy invites available…

Lo and behold I check my email as soon as I hit submit… and I have 5 invites! :D

So… I’ve shot off two invites to the two users that posted on my Streamy review (as promised… and enjoy Zak & Paula), so the first3 comments on this blog post will get an invite guaranteed! :D

As one of the extremely lucky few beta testers of Streamy, I can safely say the site is going from strength to strength already - after a little maintainence today, some new features were implemented.

Probably the most notable addition was the “Geostatus” block on the friends page… which uses Google Maps to show you where your friends are (if they’ve updated that part of their profile).

From what I’ve seen so far, Streamy is quickly making sure that upon release it will become an indispensable addition to everyone’s bookmarks - make sure you’re in at the ground floor on this one asap. ;)

On other Streamy news - the latest post on the official blog by site co-creator Don Mosites advises that they “Won’t, and don’t intend to kill digg”… click the link above to read a little more.

Anyway I’ll post more info on Streamy as it becomes available… and there’s no sign of any beta invites for us just yet - but I’ll keep you posted on that anyway. :)