images [Comic] xkcd Thread

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

The USGS operates a really neat email/SMS earthquake notification service (earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/) that allows fine-grained control of notifications.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

There's also a Katamari level where everything is just slightly bigger than you, and a Mario level with a star just out of reach.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

The chemistry experiment had me figuratively -- and then shortly thereafter literally -- glued to my seat.

[.Markus]

^

Finally XKCD is back from their humour hibernation!

[.Markus]

Don't click on the wing.

[Roger H. Veteran]

Don't click on the wing.

This one is on the front page of digg. LOL

[Berserk87]

This one is on the front page of digg. LOL

they all are, always.

[kjordan2001]

I mean, it's been almost twenty years. Now, it's possible you're simply embedding Windows directory paths in your URIs, but in that case you need more than just a short lecture.

Couldn't agree more on this one too...:angry:

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Maybe we're all gonna die, but we're gonna die in *really cool ways*.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

It's a lasing cat-vity!

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I just caught myself idly trying to work out what that resistor mass would actually be, and realized I had self-nerd-sniped.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

Deep :huh:

[.Markus]

Deep, but also very true!

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

We're also stuck with blurry, juddery, slow-panning 24fps movies forever because (thanks to 60fps home video) people associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus think good framerates look 'fake'.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

In the off-seasons, I hire an animal trainer to help confront secret agents with situations which they are unable to report by radio.

[MR_Candyman]

We're also stuck with blurry, juddery, slow-panning 24fps movies forever because (thanks to 60fps home video) people associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus think good framerates look 'fake'.

This is so true. I have no idea why 1080p is supposed to be impressive

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Let's get dinner after we promptly destroy all the X-7 in we've manufactured.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

We once got grounded when we convinced the FAA to block flights through our county because of ash clouds.

[.Markus]

The XKCD comics are slowly return to good old classic form! Nice stab at the Icelandic volcano disruptions a few weeks back

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Three headstones down, I got a call from my mom and it went from bad to worse.

[MR_Candyman]

omg, I laughed so hard at that

[.Markus]

hahaha took me a while to get it....

[chicken-royal]

brilliant! :laugh:

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I am firmly of the opinion that if something doesn't have a year on it, every time the expiration date rolls around it is good again for the two weeks preceeding that date.