12 items tagged “xkcd”
2013
Why doesn’t xkcd site have social media share options?
My guess: he probably thinks they are a bit tacky.
[... 45 words]What is your review of xkcd?
★★★★★
It’s consistently excellent, and frequently throws out absolute diamonds. Here’s a great one from just a few days ago: [... 63 words]2012
2010
Color Survey Results. XKCD asked anonymous netizens to provide names for random colours. The results (collated from 222,500 user sessions that named over 5 million colours) are fascinating. # 5th May 2010, 3:59 pm
Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard’s Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what’s already here.
— xkcd # 23rd April 2010, 10:43 am
2008
A convention once saw, for example, that I had worked at NASA, and put me on a panel about the future of space exploration. I felt a little out-of-place, given that my main NASA achievement was that I once lassoed a robot with cat-6 cable and had it pull me around the hallways charioteer-style.
— Randall Munroe # 22nd August 2008, 8:28 am
Trebuchets, Geohashes, and Richmond, VA. I love how Randall Munroe lives his life in the spirit of XKCD. # 14th June 2008, 10:02 pm
2007
xkcd: Python. Just type “import antigravity”. # 5th December 2007, 6:09 am
Blanket Fort. xkcd on why you still want one. # 10th February 2007, 4:30 pm
2006
xkcd.com/verizon/ (via) The xkcd.com response to Verizon’s appalling maths. # 10th December 2006, 1:12 pm
xkcd: Nihilism. Zomg squirrels! # 6th October 2006, 9:15 am
sudo sandwich. xkcd cracks me up. # 30th August 2006, 6:50 am