2105

OK someone's going to have to explain this one to me

2104

Did Vox just review that book or something?

2103

To Randall, every Wikipedia article is a mirror in which he sees the 2016 election.

2102

I had to read this twice before I could be sure it wasn't some kind of weird mix-up with 2085. We already established both that things like this exist and that Randall thinks their existence is some kind of rebuke to Trump voters-- why does the Internet Archive deserve to be singled out especially? How "reliant" are "we" on the Internet Archive, anyway? The original Space Jam website still exists, after all. Have you been significantly impoverished by the loss of shitty op-eds and LiveJournal pages from 2001? Are future generations likely to be? At some point, even the holy cenobites of the Internet Archive will have to start making decisions about what to preserve, just like every other archive.

2101

lol yes a generally upward trend since the beginning of observations is definitely a "random walk". And lol also at the alt text; this internet comic has me totally convinced that we should smash capitalism.

2100

This is another one of those weirdly unimaginative lists like the other day where Randall demonstrates that he is torn between the desire to demonstrate how much he knows about the subject and the desire to actually tell a joke.

2099

A drawing of the text of a Wikipedia article? This is too avant-garde for me. Strangely, it's not quite the text of the actual article. What could Randall have meant by this?

2098

I'm feeling too lazy to dig up some examples of Randall investing way too much effort into things that he personally doesn't have to do anything about, but I can assure you they are abundant. This illustrates another one of Randall's Fundamental Laws: Science trivia is to be cared about if by doing so I can demonstrate my superiority to other people, unless they already care about it, in which case I can demonstrate my superiority by sneering at them for caring about it.

2097

Randall Munroe: sufficiently autistic to think categorizing hand tools is entertaining, not autistic enough to do it exhaustively, too autistic to break the categories in an amusing way.

2096

White people, am I right?

2095

Hey look, in addition to being a crushingly boring joke, it's the exact same TED stage these sorts of things are usually presented at

2094
Tai Chi in the park is interrupted by a pressing concern: Randall doesn't understand shorting stocks! Rather than being nonplussed by this peculiar exclamation, the blonde woman takes it in stride. She is one with the Tao, and answers in the form of a koan. The purpose of her explanation is not to answer Randall's question but to un-ask it. Unfortunately, Randall is not yet sufficiently enlightened to grasp this, and she is forced to make it more explicit by challenging his assumptions on a more fundamental level. After all, why should he expect to receive wisdom by asking questions?

The reader's own expectations have been similarly challenged. At first glance, this may seem to be merely an exercise in Black Hat Guy-style trolling, but his absence forces us to look deeper. We too are invited to enter the Tao-- or perhaps to invite it into us.

2093

"my comprehensive inability to function as an adult without machine supervision is quirky and endearing, and not at all like the people in WALL-E"