There is now a flash version of xkcd’s Hell cartoon. So you can now play the game.
Tag Archives: XKCD
The Fermi Lack-of-a-Paradox
As always, should any of your forces be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions click the link to go to xkcd, where you can read the hover tag.
Treekiller!
How did I miss this? XKCD is coming out (no, not like that) — as a real book. Oh, the humanity! Trees! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Oh, gawd, they can’t!
NY Times: When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper
“It’s not supposed to be a punch line, but hopefully if you didn’t laugh, you’ll laugh at this,” he said. The title text will appear where the tiny copyright notice would appear on a traditional strip.
Does that mean that the book won’t carry a traditional copyright and instead take its lead from the online comic strip itself, which Mr. Munroe licenses under Creative Commons, allowing noncommercial re-use as long as credit is given?
“To anyone who wants to photocopy, bind, and give a copy of the book to their loved one — more power to them,” he said. “He/She will likely be disappointed that you’re so cheap, though.”
Randall notes on his blag
Note: Some of the stuff in the article is no longer accurate – since then, I’ve gone back and redone the layout and comic selection myself.
Start Making Sense
Click the cartoon to go to XKCD. The hover tag is worthwhile, as usual.
The Dream
XKCD becomes a waking nightmare
I also have the one where I’m back in the navy, teaching, and no one is paying any attention.
Converting to Metric
Helpful hints for Converting to Metric at XKCD
Other unit and conversion help
That was Relatively Great
XKCD brings us physics and sex, without mentioning simple harmonic motion.
Things NOT Found on the Internet
[H]ere instead is a list of phrases that (at the time of this posting) turn up no hits on Google:
“ate a violin”
“driver-side bidet”
“unlike normal furries,”
“Sarah, plain and tall and a cyborg”
“people are too civil on the internet”
And some more in the comments
“differential equations saved my life” – 0 results
“chess for Wookies” – 0 results
“erotic vector calculus” – 0 hits
“Luke, I am your third grade teacher” – 0
“Search your kitchen counter, you know it to be true” > 0 results
“Buttered graphite” – 0
The Gang's All Here
I’m sure you all noticed that in the last panel of today’s XKCD, Randall mentions all of the quarks.
Up, Charm(ing), Strange(r), Top, Bottom, Down.
Geek meter: pegged.