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WCityMike — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:26:27 -0800

"I Love the Whole World" + xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel + Noah Raby + the Map of the Internet + Olga Nunes = I Love XKCD, a pretty cute bit of animation. (It's not the first time Raby's animated an xkcd strip.)

The XKCD Puzzle

zarq — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:47:11 -0800

XKCD author Randall Munroe appears to have left a neat little cryptographic puzzle for Reddit users in his new book. They're trying to decipher it.

Under [his] gloves, were a pair of softer gloves.

spec80 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:48:54 -0800

Cartoon-Off. XKCD's Randall Munroe v. New Yorker's Farley Katz. FIGHT.

OMG life is just an imitation of art amirite

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:53:41 -0800

xkcd had an idea to counter YouTube comment stupidity, and apparently someone at YouTube was paying attention. Not everyone is convinced however. (And there's always Comment Snob).

Try that with a fiat currency!

mecran01 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:22:11 -0800

Federal Reserve Fan Fiction via the XKCD blog.

Information Design + Politics = WIN! (Hopefully)

piedrasyluz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:31:12 -0800

Sean Tevis Takes On Intelligent Designer with Some Intelligent Design of His Own... Sean Tevis is running for State Representative in Kansas, against an opponent he describes as a proponent of intelligent design. Short on name recognition (and campaign funds) he took it upon himself to use his skills as an information designer to connect to his "constituents" - could he be the first true candidate for a generation that grew up on the Internet? Very clever xkcd-style infographic deployed against the agents of doom... (I donated, couldn't help myself) via BoingBoing

Truth Vandals?

l33tpolicywonk — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:16:25 -0800

XKCD mocks Wikipedia's "in popular culture" sections. Wikipedians take the idea seriously. The article ("Wood"). goes on lockdown. But is adding correct, even if useless, information really WikiVandalism?

Geohashing

Anything — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:04:32 -0800

Geohashing: "As you may have noticed, today’s comic contains an algorithm for converting dates into local coordinates. For a given day, you can calculate what that day’s coordinate is for your region. Dan has put together a tool for calculating a day’s coordinates and show it using Google Maps." "Note that you can’t calculate a day’s coordinates before the stock market opens on that day (about 9:00 EST) — except for weekends and holidays, when it uses the most recent opening price." More info on the XKCD geohashing wiki.

Have you ever TRIED to fuck a grapefruit?

wendell — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:00:07 -0800

I knew that sooner or later, the backlash to xkcd would begin, but I never expected it would start over.... fruit... R. Stevens, that old Diesel Sweetie, is the first to respond.... Now, a very well-interfaced polling device is put online for your fruit opinions...Vote for the fruit of your choice... but vote! Anybody can make an X/Y chart... as this response found @reddit proves... (the poster says... "Um... the grapefruit drew it. I just uploaded it for him." and "Please also keep in mind that the grapefruit has an axe to grind.")

Men from Nantucket need not apply

kyleg — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:27:18 -0800

The man who runs xkcd
has created the LimerickDB.
Though often quite dirty
There are more that are nerdy;
If you check out the best ones, you'll see.

Signal vs Noise, Bot Enforced

lazaruslong — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:16:59 -0800

ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat

Ballpits as office furniture

nthdegx — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:09:47 -0800

The Last.fm guys really wanted a ballpit, inspired by the xkcd blog. Pictures.

The internet is no longer lacking pictures of women playing electric guitar in the shower

Kattullus — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:56:25 -0800

A month ago Randall Munroe of XKCD drew a comic lamenting the internet's lack of pictures of women playing electric guitar in the shower. He registered wetriffs.com and soon the submissions started pouring in. The gallery is now up. [nsfw]

I wish I could quit you, xkcd.

lazaruslong — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:17:14 -0800

The Electromagnetic Spectrum via

You are here.

loquacious — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:40:12 -0800

You may have seen this excellent map of the internet from xkcd. Still lost? You are here.