The blag of the webcomic
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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A while ago I drew a comic about playing chess on a roller coaster. Various xkcd readers took up the challenge. Pictured above: Andrew Burke, Chris Ranker, Ryan DowlingSoka, and Chance Brown. To see more pictures of chess on rides, go to xkcd.com/chesscoaster. If you think you can do better, go for it, and send …
You may have noticed that the knapsack problem in today’s comic has two solutions. I thought that (spoiler alert!) the 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1 solution was the only one, but 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 — seven orders of mixed fruit — also works. Why did this happen? Well, I checked my …
Here are some pictures I took by flying a camera-carrying kite over Boston: More at xkcd.com/kite. I’m getting a larger kite and hope to make some higher flights. I can’t really plan when I’ll be out there since it depends on the weather, but if you’re nearby (I’m flying them from the MIT athletic field), …
I’ve finally left Virginia and moved to Boston (the Cambridge-Somerville area). I’m really excited. I try to avoid the teenage-ish tendency to blame everything on wherever I am (“I just need to get out of this town! This place sucks! Hey, can you put on another Simple Plan CD?”). But I really think the Virginia …
While trying any kind of sleep-typing, you probably want to use a keyboard like this: This keyboard is missing every key that lets you delete words you’ve typed or otherwise send commands to the OS or text editor/messaging program you’re typing in (Ubuntu+ion3 and irssi here — your mileage may vary). When you drift off …
(Note: Firefox crashed just as I was finishing this post. This is a terse recreation, as I’m about to collapse.) I gave a talk at MIT yesterday (now the day before yesterday). It was wonderful. I had never really done this kind of thing before, but it went so much better than I expected. I …
As if Cory Doctorow getting dressed in a red cape and goggles after I drew this comic wasn’t crazy enough, in response to this comic, two xkcd fans — Rafael Roquetto and Mauro Persano — have bought Richard Stallman a katana: The had it shipped to him at the FSF offices (more pictures here). He …
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There’s some strange text on billboards around New York. I passed these four this weekend: THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY It’s clearly a viral marketing campaign and seems to be by Ask.com. I like puzzles like this, but at the …
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)
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