Hey! To anyone in the Boston area who wants to get an xkcd book signed, I’ll be doing a signing event at MIT this Thursday (the 17th). It’s in Room 26-100 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Details are here. The event is free, and there will be books for sale there. I’ve been pretty busy …
Yearly Archives: 2009
Notes
I had a lot of fun putting together today’s comic. Anyone who likes strange charts like this should check out Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. It’s long been one of my favorite books. Thank you to my friend Tina for color advice, and to my brother Ricky for some Lord of the …
Signed Book Timeline
When I put my book up for sale, I thought it would be neat to offer the option of a signed copy to people who ordered in the first 24 hours. It was a popular option (more popular than we expected), and some people are wondering why they took so long to get there (most …
School
Just a note: thank you to everyone who made it to the events. We raised enough money to build a school! It’ll be in the Salavan Province, on Road No. 13 South. We’re not going to torment the kids’ ability to learn phonetics by calling it The XKCD School, but we will be writing a …
Physics for Entertainment
Update: I’m finally home after a month or so of nonstop events, including several xkcd book fund-raisers/signings. I met tons of cool people, we raised a lot of money for the EFF and Room to Read, and at one point I signed a book for a robot. Thank you to everyone who ordered a copy, …
xkcd: volume 0
The xkcd book is now officially available in the store! (There are also a handful of new shirts available for preorder, and we’ve got the signed prints back in stock). It’s been fun putting it all together. It was neat to go back through various huge stacks of old drawings, some on the back of school …
I need G1 tech support.
Note: for anyone with a G1 with this same problem who found this entry by Googling, you don’t have to lose any data — we eventually found a workaround that doesn’t require a factory reset. Details are at the bottom of this post. I’ve hit the end of the flowchart, it’s 3 AM, and I’m turning to …
Book!
There’s an xkcd book! xkcd: volume 0 will be released in the xkcd store next week, and I’m going to some events in New York and California next weekend to celebrate the release and also help out some nonprofits. The book contains strips chosen by me from the first 600 xkcd comics, including many of …
VK Couples Testing
Just for the hell of it, we actually threw together the site in yesterday’s comic. http://vkcouplestest.com/ I hope no hearts out there are broken, but it’s important to know these things. Bots can handle thousands of connections at once, so you don’t know who else your internet partner is chatting with. There’s nothing worse than …
Urinal protocol vulnerability
When a guy goes into the bathroom, which urinal does he pick? Most guys are familiar with the International Choice of Urinal Protocol. It’s discussed at length elsewhere, but the basic premise is that the first guy picks an end urinal, and every subsequent guy chooses the urinal which puts him furthest from anyone else …
xkcd 