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1190: Time 29 Jul 2013 | 10:46 pm
On Friday, xkcd #1190—Time—came to an end. It was a huge project, but since it was all concealed within a single comic panel, I thought I’d end with this short post to explain what was going on. If y...
Dictionary of Numbers 15 May 2013 | 09:31 pm
I don’t like large numbers without context. Phrases like “they called for a $21 billion budget cut” or “the probe will travel 60 billion miles” or “a 150,000-ton ship ran aground” don’t mean very much...
Odd Temporal Milestones 29 Sep 2012 | 05:35 pm
The first Star Trek episode aired closer in time to the ratification of the 19th Amendment—guaranteeing women in the US the right to vote—than to today.
A morbid Python script 12 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
Comics #493 and #893 involve actuarial tables, which are tables for calculating the probability that someone of a given age will die within a given amount of time. One evening, when I was feeling mor...
Groundhog Day correction 3 Jul 2012 | 01:28 am
A number of people have mentioned an issue with today’s comic—in the movie Groundhog Day, it’s actually implied that Phil, Bill Murray’s character, didn’t have sex with Rita. He took her home to his r...
I’m visiting CNU on April 4th 23 Mar 2012 | 05:48 am
I’ll be in Newport News, Virginia this April 4th to give a talk at my old school, Christopher Newport University. I’m really looking forward to it! The chaos of the past year and a half didn’t leave ...
Geohashing 28 Feb 2012 | 06:41 am
Almost four years ago, I posted a comic laying out the Geohashing algorithm. The algorithm generated a set of random latitudes and longitudes each day, spread out across the globe so there was general...
Tsunami photos and videos 1 Feb 2012 | 02:06 am
In xkcd.com/1010 (I have a hard time not reading that as “ten”) I said that before 2004, there weren’t really any photos or videos of tsunamis. This isn’t quite true—there were a handful of photos and...
GoDaddy 1 Jan 2012 | 05:28 am
xkcd.com is registered with GoDaddy. This is an artifact of my registering my own domains nearly ten years ago, back when I was completely new to making websites. I’ve always been a little uneasy abo...
Money chart 25 Nov 2011 | 09:01 am
I had a huge amount of fun putting the money chart together. It was the first time in a long time that my life’s been stable enough that I’ve been able to really disappear into a project—I’d almost fo...
