Smorgasbord of short links

  • Kanye West's new video stars Zach "I'm not your dancing monkey" Galifianakis, dancing on a tractor: Video Link. BONUS: commentser exchange from the kanyewest.com page on which this video appears: Q: "that dude Amish?" A: "he's drivin a tractor!!! obvusly hes not amish."
  • Burning questions in Second Life: "Can furries yiff without being offensive?" Link.
  • Beware the terrorists of Al-Gouda: presumed bad guys caught planning to blow up a plane in Boston with "wire coil wrapped around a possible initiator, an electrical switch, batteries, three tubes and two blocks of cheese." Link, Link 2.
  • iPhone owners can now purchase Apple Care policies for their device.
  • Here's a cellular, modular, interactivodular iPhone cozy: Link.
  • Sen. Ted "Series of Tubes" / "while I ride my motorcycle" Stevens said to be under criminal investigation for alleged corruption linked to an oil company in Alaska: Link.
  • Ten trippiest scenes from The Simpsons, mushed into a psychoactive montage: Link.

  • Simpsons + Star Wars: "Remember when Ralph bent his Wookiee action figure? Or when Homer told the ending of 'Empire' on his way out of the theater? And who could forget the catchy musical number 'Luke be a Jedi, tonight!'" Link.

  • Two marines who witnessed an A-bomb blast 50 years ago recall the experience — and seeing their bones "x-rayed" before their eyes when the explosion hit. Link
  • Big Lebowski action figures! Link.
  • NASA's Mars rovers, plagued by really intense martian dust storms, not dead yet! Link.

    (thanks, John Parres, Kim, Alfred, Wayne Correia, Bonnie, axlrosen, John, Katherine Hannaford, Destiny, Susannah Breslin)

    Reader comment: Jesse Raub says,

    It should be noted that the other guy in the Kanye video is none other than Will Oldham, otherwise known as Bonnie "prince" Billy and of Palace Records. This is funnier to me than Zack Galifinakis.