AWESOMECON » funny http://www.awesomecon.com/blog 'cause the web is f#&%ing awesome! Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:15:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The San Francisco Hipster & Dot Com Homesteader War http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2010/10/the-san-francisco-hipster-dot-com-homesteader-war/ http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2010/10/the-san-francisco-hipster-dot-com-homesteader-war/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:55:27 +0000 james http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/?p=571

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMqutKBS5iE

Bay Area Based comedy troupe “Killing My Lobster” knock it out of the park.  It may be a lot funnier if you have lived in SF within the last few years, but if you know hipsters and their coffee this will be worthy of a laugh or two.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs

I heard about Minecraft a few days ago due to a Penny Arcade Comic.  Then I saw this video… very, very funny tutorial on how not to build a custom house in the game.

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[video from NBC]

Kind of beautiful when done right.

[via Daring Fireball via Huffington Post]

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The only way this is going to end is with one of the pranks ending in death, I think.

[via @joestump]

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIF63jhRQcw

That looks both amazingly scary and awesome at the same time.

[via BoingBoing]

bonus video, the gravity hammer in action:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eORWqbok7qk

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Ever wonder how the Twitter-verse can be owned by a total n00b like yourself?  Want to become hella l337 at the Social Web 2.0 party?  Well thanks to peeps at “The Complete Social Media Douchebag™” you will soon be able to:

use Web 2.0 Social Media to become a millionaire overnight … to increase your Twitter followers by eleventy-billion in 3.68 seconds … to use Twitter to make a gazillion dollars through affiliate marketing and multi-level marketing schemes

Why wait, act now!

Read [via DvD]

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJh7EN8vB48

How can you not love keyboard cat?  He is just awesome.

[via @joestump and @dburka]

]]> http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/06/how-mario-should-have-ended/feed/ 0 Its A Hard Town http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/06/its-a-hard-town/ http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/06/its-a-hard-town/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:07:35 +0000 james http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/?p=493 Continuing on the rap tip, Adam drops another gem on us today:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1RMuoQnKo

[via Adam]

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6hpMftAIs0

We reference :: zefrank a lot here.  I have been a fan back since his “Learn to Dance” Flash invite that he created for a party.  Since then he has done a lot with Flash, video, art and humor.  His “Our Art Art Hour” is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. This may be the fact that I have a background in theatre and find the word play awesome… but I feel everyone will at least get a chuckle.

[via :: zefrank]

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlQd2Eg-9w

The hilarious Eugene Mirman was asked to return to his alma mater to give the graduating class of 2009 at Lexington High School a few inspirational words.  I wish my graduation had such a great speech… funny, mostly tongue-in-cheek tidbits (very Mirman), but yet some how it works.

[via YesButNoButYes]

]]> http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/06/an-inspirational-commencement-speech/feed/ 0 Andre the Giant: Greatest Drunk Of All Time http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/06/andre-the-giant-greatest-drunk-of-all-time/ http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/06/andre-the-giant-greatest-drunk-of-all-time/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:52:41 +0000 yap http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/?p=459 The Greatest Drunk On Earth

The Greatest Drunk On Earth

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.

[Read] ]]> http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/06/andre-the-giant-greatest-drunk-of-all-time/feed/ 0 How not to be seen [mashup] http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/05/how-not-to-be-seen-mashup/ http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/05/how-not-to-be-seen-mashup/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 20:27:59 +0000 james http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/?p=452

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_7wKr0fYAQ

When Monty Python and Halo Machinima get mashed up.  Awesome things happen.

[via yes but no but yes]

]]> http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/05/how-not-to-be-seen-mashup/feed/ 0 Now that is how you deal with telemarketers… http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/05/now-that-is-how-you-deal-with-telemarketers/ http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/05/now-that-is-how-you-deal-with-telemarketers/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 03:15:34 +0000 james http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/?p=438

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPAb3JhkxXg

I used to work technical support phone lines, and I would have LOVED to treat some of the people that called like the this guy.  It would have been the reverse situation, in a sense, but still.  Oh, and its NSFW audio…

[via Why' That's Delightful!]

]]> http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/05/now-that-is-how-you-deal-with-telemarketers/feed/ 0 Past fashion regrets of the future http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/04/past-fashion-regrets-of-the-future/ http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/04/past-fashion-regrets-of-the-future/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:00:59 +0000 niki http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/?p=422 retardedchicken

In the not-too-distant future, we’ll be laughing at fake wayfarers, neon keffiyehs, and ironic facial hair in the same way we now derisively dismiss pegged jeans, trucker hats, and acid-washed anything. In the meantime, Look at this Fucking Hipster is chronicling the worst of these offenders for our future lulz (or present, for those of us that don’t live in Williamsburg).

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]]> http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/04/past-fashion-regrets-of-the-future/feed/ 0 I’m in your list, ranking ur pplz http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/04/im-in-your-list-ranking-ur-pplz/ http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/2009/04/im-in-your-list-ranking-ur-pplz/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:00:21 +0000 niki http://www.awesomecon.com/blog/?p=410 Anonymous. Over 9000 strong, they are legion. And now they’ve hacked Time Magazine’s 2009 list of most influential people. Paul Lemere talks about this impressive feat over at his blog.

time100lolz

Not only has the poll been swamped to promote Moot (the pseudonym of the creator of 4chan, an image board and the birthplace for many internet memes) as the most influential of people, the poll crashers have manipulated the order of all the other nominees so that the first letter of each line spells out ‘marble cake, also the game’ (marble cake is not really a kind of cake btw).    This is pretty phenomenal, precision hacking.   Precision hacking of an extremely high profile poll run by a top notch media company.

BTW, by reading this post, you’ve just lost The Game.

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[the game]

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