Some additional information on the map in today’s comic: The labeled websites (“Google”, “Flickr”, “Slashdot”, etc) are just based on the location of the particular server I got when I pinged the site from my home machine on the day I was working on the map. Each site there has many servers and mirrors, and …
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South America, Verizon Math
South America should be able to reach xkcd again. I’m sorry to those of you there who haven’t been able to reach the site over the last week. There was a semi-complicated problem with some dead routers at ThePlanet’s datacenter. It should be fixed now. The problem with posting about it is that it doesn’t …
Dividing by Zero
I’ve gotten a few emails about a math professor who claims to have solved the problem of dividing by zero. With the caveat that I am not a professional mathematician, I’m pretty sure this is silly. For one, any time that you have a major, front-page scientific or mathematical result reported by a mainstream news …
Wondermark Auction for Child's Play
David Malki: He’s the author of Wondermark, in which he painstakingly scans and cleans up illustrations from his collection of 19th-century rare books, and then smears poop jokes all over them in Photoshop. He and his Sharpie collection are also the reason they have guards standing around around so many of the paintings in the …
Kramnik, t-shirts, Christmas
So, how ’bout that Kramnik blunder? The world champion, famous for careful, flawless play, lost a game Monday in the latest batch of Man vs. Machine matches. He got checkmated in one move with a blunder that, to someone on that level, is similar to forgetting which way bishops move. I wanna see them put …
eBay Explosions
I have no idea what happened with the explosion(s) last night at eBay, and hope everyone is okay and that it all turns out all right. That said, when I heard about it just now and searched for news, the top two results suggested something alarming:
Raptor shirts!
A new “No Raptors” shirt has gone up in the store (which is now almost completely restocked in the other shirts)! I’ve stocked up on a bunch of these ahead of time so they’re up for sale right away with no preorder period! Before putting them up, I got some friends together to take pictures …
SPX
My friend Sarah and I just got back from wandering around SPX, the Small Press Expo, which is an independent comics convention. It’s focused on real paper comics, but I stopped by because there were a few webcomics represented there. We met Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content, David Malki of Wondermark, and Colleen of Fluff …
Sideblaggin'
A note on today’s comic: Judging from my inbox, a lot of people have a different perspective on the GRY puzzle than me. First of all, I believe it’s a fairly old riddle. But more importantly, I think that originally the “English Language” bit wasn’t even a part of this riddle. It was just a …
Many news things, some overdue
The forums weren’t really a great place to post news, so davean helped me set up a blag here. I’ve got a bunch of news/info on a bunch of topics, and will answer questions in the comments, so here we go: Job: My about page mentions that I work for NASA — I’m technically a …
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