As I already mentioned, but I thought I'd be a little less cryptic this time.

There is a webcomic (by Randall Munroe) called xkcd. It's well-known enough, to say the least, but I think some people who read the blog or who will just stumble over this post may not know it, even though I've actually mentioned it a couple of times. If you're one of ( Read more... )

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With this and xkcd, I guess I'm about set with references for my dissertation.

They've been cropping up lately. I'm sure to miss one or two, I can't go reread all of the archive even if it might be fun. (If you, dear reader, haven't read those archives, now could be a good time. Then you can tell me what I've missed. Then there will be cake.)

xkcd is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language by Randall Munroe. xkcd in ( Read more... )

I lurk on the xkcd forum. I read the individual xkcd comics threads, seldom anything else .

In one thread, possibly the "The Problem with Wikipedia" Discussion, someone mentioned the idea of setting Wikipedia's "random article" function as your browser's "start page". I've done that. It's fun.

Some findings, randomly picked for this post (and of ( Read more... )