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 …
Monthly Archives: September 2009
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 …
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