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...
- 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
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