(via xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients)
This xkcd post is my spirit animal.
(via xkcd: The General Problem)
“I find that when someone’s taking time to do something right in the present, they’re a perfectionist with no ability to prioritize, whereas when someone took time to do something right in the past, they’re a master artisan of great foresight.”
(via xkcd: Marie Curie)
“… you don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.”
Today’s XKCD got me a little choked up.
“I mean, it’s been almost twenty years. Now, it’s possible you’re simply embedding Windows directory paths in your URIs, but in that case you need more than just a short lecture.”
YES YES YES. A MILLION TIMES YES.
People, I can’t stress this enough:
\ is a backslash
/ is a slash (or forward slash if you’re sassy)
ergo:
“http://” is pronounced aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash
But really, if you’re announcing a web address, you’re probably safe leaving that part off since most browsers will still resolve the URI.
xkcd - A Webcomic - Superlative
While I like the Dos Equis campaign this strip is based on, I absolutely love this XKCD.
xkcd - A Webcomic - Troll Slayer
Randall Munroe just put some peanut butter in this Twihard geek’s chocolate.
xkcd - A Webcomic - I Know You’re Listening
Alt text: It’s basically Pascal’s Wager for the paranoid prankster.
When I was in high school, my dream was to work for the NSA. This kind of thing would have probably caused me to resign.
“It’s like herding lolcats.”
This is my favorite XKCD in a while simply because “like herding cats” is one of my all-time favorite phrases & he found a way to make it even better.
Some of my favorites:
- He uses a magnifying glass made of a hairpin and wine to read names of spies off a watch.
- As a way to hold off killer ants for awhile, MacGyver makes a flamethrower out of a hose, pipe, and tank of gasoline. He also uses some “kitchen ingredients” as a fuel-thickener to prevent the contraption from simply exploding.
- MacGyver rigs a pair of dice by rounding some of the edges with a shoe buffer with an abrasive added so that the chance of rolling a ‘7’ is increased. In order to create a distraction to swap the dice at a craps table, using some string and a paper clip, MacGyver fastens the string to the paper clip then attaches it to the dress of a woman who is walking nearby and steps on the string, pulling down her dress thereby creating a distraction and allowing him to swap the dice.
(via the title tag on today’s xkcd)
