xkcd the book
August 18, 2009 3:03 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: xkdc has been covered there and back and then some on mefi in the past; sweet for Randall that he's going dead-tree, but there's not much to talk about here. -- cortex
Thank God! Now I can forget to read it in a whole new medium.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:07 PM on August 18, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:07 PM on August 18, 2009 [4 favorites]
I RTFA'd. CLever.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:07 PM on August 18, 2009
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:07 PM on August 18, 2009
Will it be bound and published? Because it's been four months and it's not even in the xkcd store. It's been so long that I'd forgotten about the NYT article.
posted by ten pounds of inedita at 3:15 PM on August 18, 2009
posted by ten pounds of inedita at 3:15 PM on August 18, 2009
The mouseover text has always been footnote-ish anyway, so that seems appropriate.
About time, too.
posted by rokusan at 3:24 PM on August 18, 2009
About time, too.
posted by rokusan at 3:24 PM on August 18, 2009
Why is this noteworthy? XKCD is hardly the first web comic to enter print form.
XKCD the comic is certainly BoTW, but this is weak.
posted by Orange Pamplemousse at 3:57 PM on August 18, 2009
XKCD the comic is certainly BoTW, but this is weak.
posted by Orange Pamplemousse at 3:57 PM on August 18, 2009
wildly popular among techies the world over for its witty use of programming code in its gags
C'mon. That's the reason it's wildly popular? Kind of insulting.
posted by naju at 4:03 PM on August 18, 2009
C'mon. That's the reason it's wildly popular? Kind of insulting.
posted by naju at 4:03 PM on August 18, 2009
wildly popular among techies the world over for its witty use of programming code in its gags
C'mon. That's the reason it's wildly popular? Kind of insulting.
OK: Also wildly popular with geeky folks who know of Richard Stallman and didn't have to google GitHub following this comic.
posted by filthy light thief at 4:22 PM on August 18, 2009
C'mon. That's the reason it's wildly popular? Kind of insulting.
OK: Also wildly popular with geeky folks who know of Richard Stallman and didn't have to google GitHub following this comic.
posted by filthy light thief at 4:22 PM on August 18, 2009
XKCD is sometimes very, very clever, but I've been souring on it a little bit. It feels like the vanguard of a kind of nerd triumphalism. I am a nerd! I understand the tribal urge. But the message of XKCD is so often "our kind is the best," and it makes me uncomfortable.
posted by grobstein at 4:25 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by grobstein at 4:25 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]
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