AWESOMECON

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!]

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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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.

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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Brilliant look into what our future wirless world will look like, all thanks to Qualcomm.

[via Geekologie]

From ye ole Fail Blog. ’nuff said.

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92YTribeca is an arts and enterainment venue in NYC that focuses on providing classes, shows and lectures about the entertaiment industry.  Not being from NYC nor living there I don’t know much about it but I stumbled upon a great spoof video that is an ad for 92YTribeca.  If you watch much comedy, you will probably recognize a lot of the faces in the video (ex: Paul Rudd, Michael Ian Black, Todd Barry).

[via PSFK]

For the fans of Mr. Show, you will probably agree the above scene has to be one of the more classic skits they have done.  I recently started watching the DVDs again (’cause nothing decent was on TV and it had been ages since I last watched it) and seeing this scene just cracked me up.  Even 11 years after this episode aired, Mr. Show is still just as funny now as it was then.

For those of you not familar with Mr. Show, it was a sketch comedy show on HBO that starred Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.  Bob Odenkirk has been a writer on the Ben Stiller Show, Conan O’Brien, SNL, Tenacious D, and Tom Goes To The Mayor.  David Cross is a stand-up comedian and actor featured in Arrested Development, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind and the seminal comdey CD Shut Up You F***ing Baby! Other members of the cast included Tom Kinney and Sarah Silverman.

Some people know how to write random, hysterical and absolutely enthralling emails.  Jenny Lawson, who writes as the Bloggess, has been receiving emails from one of these talented people for a long time now.  The emailer’s name is Nancy W. Kappes and as Jenny states:

“Every couple of days I get an email from a woman in Indiana named Nancy W. Kappes and it is the highlight of my entire fucking week.  Basically it’s like we’re having a really long weird conversation except I’m not actually talking”

Which, after reading her emails I 100% agree.  Well worth the time!

Read [The Bloggess via Stephanie]

The 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors are a fantastic San Francisco-based comedy troupe. They are truly the Asian-American direct descendants of the great Monty Python.

Anyone else reminded of this?

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video link – ONN

Are you too happy?  Then the new FDA approved drug will help you suffer like the rest of us!  ONN is just on a roll!

[via Monica, once again]