I was thinking of getting a couch or something for my room, somewhere for guests to lounge around. Fuck new couches. I now have a ball pit in my room. I talked a little bit to Mike Machenry, who built a ball pit last year after reading my comic about it. The big problem with …
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Last week’s story arc was a lot of fun for me. I hope you enjoyed it! A few notes for the more pedantic readers: In Part 2, Elaine and Dr. Knuth are not competing to calculate the time-complexity of a known algorithm. They’re each trying to develop an algorithm to solve a particular problem. His …
WetRiffs.com
WetRiffs.com now has pictures up. Thank you to everyone who submitted — it turned out great! See the page and gallery for my comments.
Embarassing Typo
Confession: The mispelling (now fixed) in today’s comic got there acciddentaly; it wasn’t another little joke, just hubris striking. “Foreign” is one of those words I mispelled unknowingly for years. I’ve corrected it — on principal I usualy don’t edit comics after the first few minutes they’ve been up, but most of the time I’m …
Wikipedia: Blogs
Wikipedia’s entry on blogs, with everything that is not the word ‘blog’ (or a derivative thereof) removed: Blog Blog blog Blog Blog blog Blog blog blogs blog blogs blogs blogs photoblog sketchblog blog blog blogging blogging blogs blog blogs blogging Blogging blogging blogging blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blogging bloggers blog blogging bloggers …
Bunny, Showers
Lem’s Bunny asks the natural follow-up question to today’s comic. For those of you who have been waiting patiently: the submissions to WetRiffs.com will be going up soon — we’re just handling some final influxes of sexy. If any of you have any guitar-shower pictures you want to submit, now’s the time!
The Meetup
xkcd readers successfully overran a park in Cambridge a week ago, and it’s taken me this long to fully recover. But boy, was it fun. Here’s a wrap-up: Back in the spring, when I lived in Virginia, I drew this comic. The date was in the future, the coordinates were a park in Cambridge. When …
Footomobiles
I was recently reading through newspapers from around 1898 to 1901. In a collection of articles from midwestern papers predicting what life would be like in the year 2000, I found this cartoon: (Brown County Democrat, December 28, 1900.) The label on the device reads ‘footomobile’. Words fail me. Now, I have ridden a Segway …
Testing the 9V Battery Hack (or: Assault on Battery)
Kipkay over at Metacafe has posted videos showing how you can take apart a 9V battery and use the cells as AAAA or AAA batteries (he has a similar trick for 12V -> 1.5V button batteries. I have played with batteries a lot in my life and never knew this. There was some speculation on …
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Mirrorboard: A one-handed keyboard layout for the lazy
Do you have a wearable computer? Are you interested in alternate keyboard layouts but too lazy to learn Dvorak? Do you masturbate at your desk? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be interested in my custom keyboard layout. I spend most of my desktop time in a web browser and …
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