The Week in Links

Lasagna Cat 10/26/2007 (YouTube)
I'm not too proud to embed an old Lasagna Cat during a week when I'm hard up for a good new YouTube video.

What Went Wrong (Mark Evanier)
Long speculative piece about what likely happened during the Jay/Conan Tonight Show War of 2010. You can tell he's put a lot of passion into it because he f-bombs at the end.

For my part, I'm more irritated by the rounds of Me Toos out there coating the internet in Team Coco talk. Where were you guys during the last half a year of Conan dying in the ratings? And now you want to be on a team? You all sound like the worst team members I can imagine: fair weather friends who are easily inflamed.

Walt Disney Imagineering is very serious when it comes to play testing(Jim Hill Media)
I love that the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure attraction was originally longer.

Robert Zemeckis finds Beatles for 'Yellow Submarine' (Heat Vision)
Meet your mo-cap Beatles.

UP wins Golden Globe (Cartoon Brew)
More Beatlemania. Here, Cartoon Brew has a minor freakout over Paul McCartney's scripted animation comment at the Golden Globes.

The Cute Way To Offend Delicate Sensibilities (John K.)
Great screengrabs of a bloody Daffy Duck take.

NZ army to remove Bible citations from armaments (Yahoo News)
Typical. American company has been hiding religious code on their gun parts for decades. Be ready for the Fundie reverse-outcry over New Zealand's complaint: running the gamut of "It's been there for years with no complaint" to "It's just numbers, it's not a big deal." Nice surprise ending: This company is willingly ceasing the practice.

Report: Samurai Pizza Cats, Speed Racer once considered for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (Joystiq)
That's a bullshit reason for not including Speed Racer, they didn't know what to do with his car. Speed Racer is far and away the most popular Tatsunoko character, worldwide.

Bus-riding cat Casper killed in hit & run (Yahoo News)
Quite frankly, this was inevitable. Rather than being awed by the "bus riding cat" story when it hit a few months ago, maybe somebody should have kept the cat indoors.

LEGO Collectable minifigures coming June 2010 (Brothers Brick)
Why did it take this long for modern civilization to come up with blind-boxed exclusive LEGO minifigs? I'd buy these but I'd probably only end up with six of the medieval archer guy, whom I already have in multiple quantities from the bandit Castle sets of the late '80s.