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 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]

I have no idea what it means, nor do I need to (all though I do want to).  I was literally speechless after watching this amazing video.  Give it a few seconds and I am sure you will feel the same way.

[via Why, That's Delightful!]

If you have never played Halo 3, the Gravity Hammer is a devastating weapon in the game.  Its also tons of fun to just slam people and see them flying.  From the following video, it appears that the gravity hammer was probably inspired by these young gentlemen in Mexico:

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

[via BoingBoing]

bonus video, the gravity hammer in action:

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]

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.

One of the things that I will really miss now that I no longer live in San Francisco, is Fleet Week.  Every year in October the Blue Angels and other assorted flight teams come to town and buzz the city.  It was always so exciting the first day they began practicing because the scream of the jet engines would echo throughout the city.  You just have to love that.

The above video was taken from the back seat of Blue Angel #7 and it shows how intense it must be to ride shotgun in one of these high performance planes.  Love it!!

[from Wired via Aaron]

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

[via @joestump and @dburka]

Continuing on the rap tip, Adam drops another gem on us today:

[via Adam]

When two rappers step up to spit freestyle rhymes some of the listeners would love transcription to help clarify some of the slang and intent of what they are saying.  If you have ever found yourself in that situation, then worry no more for this video has you covered.

[via Adam (w/ an official seal of approval from the list)]