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webcomic by Randall Munroe

  • started September 2005, 740 episodes to date
  • new episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
  • comic about "romance, sarcasm, math, and language"
  • mainly very geeky comic, but could be considered "mainstream"
  • Randall quit NASA because it wasn't geeky enough
  • now makes money from merchandise: books, t-shirts, posters...

Makes fun of media, blogs, Wikipedia

Creates incredibly detailed "educational posters"

Fights for better internet

it's enjoyably geeky

often exploiting some favourite internet meme

or using SQL for funny pun

Sometimes, just romantically poetic...

The incredible thing is

as you go deeper

and deeper

  • pranks
  • ciphres
  • calls to action

Sometimes,

Randall inspires

the readers

to contribute

in incredible ways

The chess

rollercoaster

this comic started spontaneous

influx of authentic pictures

The WetRiffs

and sure enough

there actually is the website

wetriffs.com

collecting fan-made photos

Randall even had a talk at Google

it's 58 minutes

so look it up sometimes

And there are countless videos

fan-made, mostly adaptations

of xkcd comics

Like this tripple parody

Boom de yada!

1. Discovery channel made

this great TV ad

Randall made this

parody comic

Fans made many video-covers

xkcd is a living geek legend

a success story of a guy

who happens to like all sorts of stuff

and enjoys to be a bit weird

encourages thinking

even over-thinking

but within limis

Why should we read such a childish comic?

Thank you!

you discover whole new dimensions of xkcd

dd

kasikp@gmail.com

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