Cory Doctorow won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award yesterday, and I’m happy to see the presenters found him some fitting attire: (Photo courtesy quinnums, full set here)
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Cory Doctorow
There’s no red cape. But, then again, this was taken back in 2004: Photo courtesty Windley (via, of course, a Creative Commons license) Cory Doctorow was the guy who first convinced me to publish xkcd under a CC license, allowing people to share my comics freely. It’s easy to do and was one of the …
MIT Programming Team
MIT has a BattleCode programming competition, (which reminds me of Robowar, the reason I didn’t have a high-school social life). This year, [at least] one of the teams was a group of xkcd readers — Nicole, Bobby, and Jessica. They are fun people who I actually had the pleasure of meeting briefly while visiting Boston …
In which I lose the originals of the last three months of comics and the laptop I create them with.
I draw all my comics on paper, but I scan and process them on my lovely Fujitsu Lifebook P1510, a tiny hybrid tablet computer (it’s the size of a hardback book). I have high-resolution versions of all the comics, which I use for print versions and shirts and such. I used to save them to …
Large numbers
I mentioned an extremely large number in this comic, and then talked a little about comparing it to another large number in this blag post. But all the numbers discussed had a sense of arbitrariness to them. The xkcd number was just a function that grew rapidly plus a large argument. I’ve been thinking about …
Velociraptor Safety
I recently received a letter from Dr. Daniel Snyder, a paleontologist from Knox College, who wanted to share some theories on handling dromeosaurids: Dear sir, I have recently been introduced to your Web comic, and I write in great admiration. You have a keen mind and wit, as well as the artistic ability to convey …
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