XKCD has a web cartoon making the rounds that nicely summarizes 22,000 years of climate and human history. One important point: As the last ice age ended and temperatures heated up, humans did better ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. What’s the most stupidly ambitious aspect of ‘XKCD: Volume 0,’ the book ...
I believe in charts. A good chart can stick an important fact into your mind and keep it there. And some of the best come from Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd. Now you can turn any chart into an xkcd ...
If you're reading this blog, chances are you're probably quite familiar with the webcomic xkcd created by Randall Munroe. It's everything a geek could dream of in a web comic: It's funny, it's smart, ...
The Internet is history's greatest repository of minutiae, and its greatest generator. And that information is proliferating, mostly in the form of facts, both grand and trivial. The Twittersphere is ...
“I’m waiting for the day when, if you tell someone ‘I’m from the internet’ instead of laughing they just ask, ‘Oh what part?’“ Zoom in for hidden gems like “Social Media Consultant Channel” and ...
Excerpt from “What If?” by Randall Munroe to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on Sept. 2, 2014. Copyright 2014 by xkcd Inc. Used by permission of the ...
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XKCD, the sarcastic webcomic revered by science and tech geeks, is now the butt of someone else's joke. Hackers breached the forum of the 14-year old site, stealing over 560,000 usernames, emails, IP ...