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Randall Munroe of xkcd reminds us that we humans are gradually losing our competitive advantage with computers. Our only hope is look at Calvinball as not only a game, but a way of life.
Link -via Nerd Bastards
Congratulations to Randall Munroe on the 1000th comic published at xkcd! Only 24 to go, and he’ll have a big, round number to brag about. Link
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Randall Munroe at xkcd put together a chart about money, so massive that you’ll have to enlarge a few times just to read it. The statistics cover what things cost, what people earn, business profits, taxes, government spending, utilities, war, and more. The amounts of money for each are laid out in blocks for comparison. That’s a lot of blocks. What is shown here, as compressed as it is, is just a portion. Link -via Boing Boing
Randall Munroe of xkcd presents a dozen different ways to project the earth onto a map, and analyzes the fans of each. My favorite (after the globe, of course) is the Robinson projection, which pegs my lifestyle pretty well. Link -via the Presurfer
Ranker listed the most immediate internet reactions to Steve Jobs’ death, including the good, the bad, and the tasteless. Laughing Squid also posted a roundup of tributes. Randall Munroe, who normally posts a new comic at xkcd on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, posted this extra in memory of Jobs. Link
It all started four years ago with a xkcd panel. Then it turned into a meme, nay, a movement of people around the world playing games, usually chess, on roller coasters and water rides.
Can this photo be topped? How would you do so? -via Geekologie
We’ve seen an xkcd wedding cake before, but this one is marvelously designed with the Golden Ratio in mind. redditor IronRectangle writes:
Each of the layers (which is scaled according to the golden ratio, just to add geek street cred) is a different flavor of cake: vanilla, chocolate and marbled. White yummy vanilla icing tops it all off.
-via reddit
Inspired by the xkcd comic “Heaven,” GUD magazine made a playable version of Tetris that occasionally sends a piece “from heaven” that’s exactly what you need to fit in with the rest of your blocks. Link -via Blame It On The Voices
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With all the bad news of the nuclear reactor incident in Fukushima, Japan, it’s hard to get a handle of exactly how much radiation is bad.
Randall Munroe of XKCD created what is probably the most informative chart about the different doses of radiation you get from various activities of life, from sleeping next to someone to flying over the USA to getting a chest X-ray and more.
Link – via Boing Boing
Sing along with this flow chart from xkcd! I guess it shows my age when I can sing all these except Katamari Damacy. Link
Use this handy chart from Randall Munroe of xkcd (or better yet, memorize it) to become a whiz at tic-tac-toe! The chart shown for “x” should be used when you have the first turn. The red x is your response for the various scenarios. At the site you’ll find a second chart for “o” which is what you use if you have the the second turn. Link -via The Daily What
You might remember how Randall Munroe of xkcd created a map of the internet in 2007. A lot of things have changed since then, so he made a completely new map to reflect the state of online communities today. Just a portion of the map is shown here. Go to xkcd and enlarge the map, and you’ll find Neatorama in the inset of the Blogosphere area (in the Sea of Opinions), a tiny island off the coast near Deadspin and Lifehacker. Look around, and you’ll see plenty of cleverness, such as Facebook’s privacy controls isolated in a pool of lava, and a meteor crater where Craiglist’s adult services used to be. Link -via Metafilter
Update 10/6/10 by Alex: Woohoo! Randall knows we’re alive – Neatorama made it to this year’s map, right alongside Boing Boing, Lifehacker, and Deadspin:
The artists at Pink Cake Box made a wedding cake inspired by the webcomic xkcd:
The top of the cake includes cutouts of the comic characters with a red heart on a wire between them. The entire cake is covered in white fondant with black thin bands at the base of each tier. Equations inspired by this comic decorate the remaining tiers.
Link via Super Punch
Previously:
I Love xkcd
We Love xkcd (Starring Miss Cellania!)
xkcd Idea Leads to New YouTube Feature
This concept of hell is brought to you by the webcomic xkcd. Only a couple of days after this particular comic went viral, there is a playable version. Understand, I said a playable version, not a winnable version. Link -via b3ta
Remember the I Love xkcd animated music video (inspired by the Discovery Channel promo I Love the World, drawn by animator Noam Raby and sung by Olga Nunes) posted previously on Neatorama?
Well, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle have teamed up to create the real life version of the song, titled We Love xkcd featuring the who’s who of the web, including Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Phil Plait … and perhaps the most famous, our very own Miss Cellania!
Boomdeyada indeed! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Boing Boing
Previously on Neatorama: I Love the World – Video Game Edition
Matt Blum of Wired’s GeekDad blog came up with a list of 10 geeky laws that should exist, but for some inexplicable reason, do not (at least, they didn’t until now). For example:
1. Munroe’s Law: A person in a geeky argument who can quote xkcd to support his position automatically wins the argument. This law supersedes Godwin, so that even if the quote is about Hitler, the quoter still wins.
2. Lucas’s Law: There is no movie so beloved that a “special edition,” prequel or sequel cannot trample and forever stain its memory. [...]
8. Wilbur’s Law: Bacon makes everything better.
Randall Munroe of xkcd has posted intricate movie graphs that help explain the sequence of characters for those who have trouble figuring out what went on over a long narrative. The most helpful is the largest graph, which deals with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Grouping of lines shows which characters are together over time. There are also graphs for the original Star Wars trilogy, Jurassic Park, 12 Angry Men, and Primer. Only a small portion of the LOTR graph is shown here. Link -via reddit
Animator Noam Raby expressed his love for the webcomic xkcd and the many interests of its artist, Randall Munroe, in this one minute music video. Raby and Munroe have previously collaborated on another animated video entitled “Letting Go.”
Art by Randall Munroe and singing by Olga Nunes.
via io9 | xkcd.com | Raby’s Website | Olga Nunes’ Website | Interview with Randall Munroe
Anyone who’s been around Neatorama for any length of time is familiar with the Rickroll. For New Year’s Eve, Randall Munroe of xkcd takes the Rickroll concept and stands it on its head to surprise a girl. Link -Thanks, mmat!
