AWESOMECON

A little poem written by Palin performed by Shatner.

[video from NBC]

Kind of beautiful when done right.

[via Daring Fireball via Huffington Post]

I was reading a tweet by @mdowney which referred to a post on BuzzFeed about the top 10 Michael Jackson acapella videos. This post is not about that… well, not directly anyway. I was watching the video for “Beat It” and during the breakdown/fight scene I had an amazing revelation. Holy SH*T!!! THOSE THUGS ARE HIPSTERS!

So, apparently hipsters are 1983 thugs from the “Beat It” video. Amazing but true. Check out around 2:30 in the video to revel in the pre-hipster-hipster fashion.

Apparently Andre the Giant was quite the drinker. On a scale that honestly you probably can’t even fathom before you read this fantastic article. Those of us that enjoy tippin’ a glass here and there and think we know how to do it right (or at least claim to have, before we got “old”) will be humbled by this incredible story. I’ll just tease you with this little stat:

Think about it: 119 beers in 6 hours. That’s a beer every 3 minutes, non-stop. That’s beyond epic.

A beer every 3 minutes. Not a shot of beer, but an entire beer. 119 times. No stopping, no f**king around.

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KANYE WEST “Welcome To Heartbreak” Directed by Nabil from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

You have probably seen digital aritfacts when watching a highly compressed video or when your cable feed goes wonky for a bit.  They are the little squares and pixels that drift around and obscure the source you are watching.  In Nabil Elderkin’s mind, the director of the new Kanye West video, digital artifacts are not a bad thing but a tool to create an inspring video.  Even if you dislike Kanye because of his gigantic ego and hubris its still worth checking out.

[via Stereogum]

By now, pretty much most meme-aholics have heard the vocal isolation track of Van Halen’s “Running with the Devil” featuring the crazed wails, screams, whistles and OH YEAH’s of David Lee Roth.  The song was included on the seminal 1978 release of Van Halen’s self-titled debut. Due to the release date and the extreme rock qualities of the album, this clearly makes the album “Van Halen” Classic Rock.

Jump ahead to 1979, barely a year later, another great is born.  Black and white line graphics represent your ship as it blasts and drifts through monstrous rocks in the darkness of deep space.  Asteroids is considered by many to be one of the great games of the past arcade mania, a legend that still lives in our hearts today.  Truly a Classic game.

Due the close proximity of time, there is a good chance that many Asteroids players listend to “Running with the Devil” while blasting rocks into smaller and smaller bits, while difting, ever drifting.  Thanks to the boyz/girlz at shitbagz, you can now play Assteriodz, The Diamond Dave Edition featuring Van Halen.  A true classic paring, like fine wine and cheese.  If the wine is a Flash casual game and cheese is the over the top stylings of Diamond Dave.  Good times.

[via Ryan]

In what can only be described as a genius fit of inspiration, Oklahoma salesman David L. Mackie had his Capital One credit card emblazoned with Nick Nolte’s totally dapper ‘02 mugshot. Jealous, Capital One is now offering Mackie $50 to get it back. Can’t they just print another one for themselves?

In other news, Nick Nolte has a Capital One credit card with a picture of David L. Mackie on it.

Read. [Consumerist]