AWESOMECON

It seems that bacon is being formed and then baked (or fried) into more complex and radical food delivery systems.  The next evolution of bacon science appears to be the Baco.  A bacon based tortilla replacement.  I am both horrified and made hungry by this newest step in evolution in food sciences.

[Read via Tim]

… about the website “Three Frames“. Niki called it an:

extremely extremely distilled version of ytmnd

which is a good description. I walked through the archive in a few minutes, subscribed to the RSS on a whim expecting to throw it away after a few days and yet, I get excited when a new one comes in. Odd. Anyway, I love it and had to share.

[read three frames]

I haven’t really been following the internet meme “Prank Wars” by a few of the members over at College Humor, but I recall catching bits and pieces of the pranks.  Here is the most recent one pulled on Amir. After seeing the last one Amir pulled I have no sympathy for him and feel this was well deserved.  Pretty damn impressive setup if you ask me…

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

[via @joestump]

Okay, its technically three-man act, but a one-man band.  The mutli-part one man YouTube video meme is getting a little stale, but this one is damn impressive.  Rock out baby!

[Read via Bob Nickolopoulos]

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]

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

[via @joestump and @dburka]

If you follow Daft Punk at all and/or played Little Big Planet then this will rock your socks off:

With the growth of control and interactivity available via video games, the world of Machinima is really taking off.  Games like Little Big Planet are designed with user content generation in mind and its amazing to see how it is being adapted and expanded by the user community.

Machinima, as defined via Wikipedia:

Machinima (pronounced /məˈʃiːnɨmə/ or /məˈʃɪnɨmə/) is the use of real-time three-dimensional (3-D) graphics rendering engines to generate computer animation. The term also refers to works that incorporate this animation technique. Machinima-based artists, sometimes called machinimists or machinimators, often use graphics engines from video games, a practice that arose from the animated software introductions of the 1980s demoscene, Disney Interactive Studios‘ 1992 computer game Stunt Island, and 1990s recordings of gameplay in first-person shooter (FPS) video games, such as id Software’s Doom and Quake.

[via @mesh]

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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[the game]

Its been a busy few weeks for us here at Awesomecon.  Let me make it up to ya with this:

The Thru-you link has been going around for a while but most people have been getting their server down message.  Finally, Dubber found the direct links on YouTube and posted them.  I went looking a few days ago and they where not up yet.  Sooooo hot.  Seriously, this is just redonkulous editing.

1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random… Read More… Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 – Post it with this text

Note: I’d also feel free to hit those links a few times to get stuff that will have the best impact… that’s what I did. Hell, use your own picture if you want. Rules were made to be broken! Or just follow the directions to the letter if you want. Fun!