xkcd

useless but cool (ars gratia artis)

One R Tip a Day offers a package which enables one to display one's favorite strips from xkcd .  Here .

I'll bet they read xkcd

A commenter has pointed out that it is no longer possible to ride around and around and around on the Circle Line. Since 2009 (always the la...

xkcd has a terrific graphic (with disclaimer) on different levels of radiation exposure, here .

HDW MEETS AGENT

it's a kitty!

I find that my landlady is unfamiliar with the classic xkcd on cat proximity. I tell her to do a search on Google for xkcd and kitty.

I once got to second base with a basketball player

[Cliff Notes for one of my books in regress] [Why Bill & I needed more than 3 hours]

in remembrance of crayolas past

Results of xkcd colour survey are out By a strange coincidence, the same night I first made the color survey public, the webcomic Doghouse D...

envy

Also courtesy MR, Cory Doctorow on a publishing experiment. Including, among other things, a limited hardback edition with a cover illustra...

(fail better)

why no novelist should EVER be asked to go on a book tour PROMOTING what ONCE looked like a brilliant idea

why isn't life more like Unicode?

It's 12:03pm in Berlin. The sun is shining. Cars whiz up and down Hauptstrasse outside this café. Wherever Randall Munroe may be it i...

time warp

The worst thing about living in Germany. It's now 1.06 am in Berlin. By OUR time, the Wednesday xkcd should be out. But it's not. We...

regrets, I've had a few

Anatol Stefanowitsch at Bremer Sprachblog takes another look at a classic xkcd (pop-up: And nothing for I'm glad I saw 'Epic Movie...

but... but...

trying to cut down

simplicity

Levitation aside, there is a vocabulary test engine called Lavengro that is written in Python (one you can use, in other words, to build you...

someone talked to me at breakfast

I had gone innocently across the road to buy Le Monde as soon as the newsagent opened (just 10 dirhams, or 1.10 euros) and went into breakfa...

out and about

Vertigo

I met TAR ART RAT at Yorckschlößchen for a beer last night, and we did NOT talk about nothing but blogs, but in the course of the conversat...