Wednesday, November 15, 2017


1916

TIL different cities can have different weather, depending on where they are in the world. In some places, it's largely temperate all year long. Other places have more or less extreme summers and winters, and some places get cold in the winter and hot in the summer.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Saturday, November 11, 2017


1914

What a unique, novel take on this issue! I don't think anyone has looked at the issues around verification of Twitter accounts in quite this way before. This really opens up a whole new perspective I hadn't thought about before. Public discourse is incontestably better for it.

Wednesday, November 8, 2017


1913

Actual geeks haven't used Apple products since Steve Jobs came back in 1997. APPLY YOURSELF RANDALL

Monday, November 6, 2017


1912

A reader sends in this review:

Today's xkcd: your poorly designed tech appliance broke in a way you couldn't have caused, please kill yourself
This joke might have worked back in the days of PC supremacy where people had way too much control over their device's guts by default, but not now with locked down appliances 

Wednesday, November 1, 2017


1910

A trifecta of Bad XKCD tropes:

1) False modesty in the form of what is meant to look like self-deprecation about being a nerd, while pointing out that actually nerds are the best

2) Stupid post-punchline dialogue

3) Alt-text that shows he clearly thinks this is a clever comic by cringeworthy over-commitment to the joke

Randall also often draws women's hair with more detail than men's, so that the women look weirdly three-dimensional in comparison. It's especially noticeable when they're standing right next to each other, since the tops of the women's heads appear to pop out of the frame in a really jarring way.

  2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job