It utilizes alt text for each and every comic, which. As a big fan of xkcd, i have to share this with everyone else out there. Editor faq for a specific guidance to this wiki and the more general help on how to edit wiki pages. Randall is famous for getting inside peoples heads, but unless youre in his, there will always be times when you just dont get it. I dont know, but i spent about half and hour exploring it before my arm wore out. The guy with the hat exploits what that would mean as the guys entire body is glue and bonds with the rubber person forever fish. But before you try to create a liveupdating paper wikipedia, lets look at what those printers would be doing. Every monday, wednesday and friday a new cartoon comes out. The image displayed at first turns out to be part of a huge landscape, filled with big or small things, humorous details, people here and. Simple explanations of the sometimes complicated nerd comic. Sep 20, 2012 creators continue finding ways to use digital comics that print cant replicate. Everything you need to know about xkcd comic click and.
The large image measures 165,888 pixels wide by 79,822 pixels high. I think you can enable drag lock on snow leopard for the same effect. Many of the jokes are based on math, physics, science, unix or internet memes, as well as romance and sex. A scraper to download xkcds awesome click and drag comic. By 2008, xkcd was able to financially support munroe and radtke reasonably well through the sale of multiple thousand tshirts per month. I woke up to find several emails letting me know, to my dismay, that the comic doghouse diaries has already done a similar strip about the same experience. Dec 19, 2014 it an online comic strip drawn in stickfigure style the artwork can nonetheless be quite impressive, especially the expanded click and drag or micromacro zoom pieces. Its an analogy to compare the world we live in that was lost on me. Charts and graphs computer science computer programming allegedly vulnerability bugs no response it works everything. Ive found explain xkcd to be great for some of randalls higher concept comics, like click and drag, pixels and, of course, time.
Im at a family reunion, where a youtubewatching party inspired todays comic. I dont have the coding experience to do this kind of thing for myself, so here is a fellow xkcd lovers take on it. It really captures the spirit of exploration, doesnt it. The eye of providence with a clock instead of the eye in the upper part of the pyramid and the text at your own pace in the lower part of the pyramid. Munroe states on the comics website that the name of the comic is not an initialism, but just a word with no phonetic pronunciation the subject matter of the comic varies from statements on life and love to. Come to discuss the comics and other work by randall with other. Explore a gigapixel of the xkcd 1110 webcomic in a zoomable interface. The osi 7layer burrito picking server hostnames server density blog. This is reminiscent of the earlier interactive comic 1110. This work is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 2. Read more everything you need to know about todays xkcd comic, click and drag. Discussion about the wiki itself happens at the community portal.
In the interests of science and possibly accidentally ddosing randalls image server sorry. The end of the pole near the moon would be pulled toward the moon by the moons gravity, and the rest of it would be pulled back. Inspired by the recent question about xkcd styled plots i started looking at xkcd again and i came across a comic titled click and drag. The new horizons spacecraft is currently flying past pluto. By having zoom and quick drag i no longer have the excitement and urge to keep dragging further in anticipation of whats next to show up. Everything you need to know about todays xkcd comic, click and drag by james plafke sep 19th, 2012, 4. Whole time i was reading some posts from you guys and also reading some xkcd. Sep 19, 2012 three finger scrolling works on a mac lion. Headache, which was rereleased in 3d, as well as 1110.
Below are all the themes relevant to cover all the images found when zooming in. The only legitimate reason for not liking it is jealousy that you can never be as clever as randall munroe, the genius behind xkcd. If it is referenced in an xkcd web comic, it should be here. Its meant for you to explore the world and its immense size filled with little details every now and then. Among the most awesome things on the internet ever. The comics tagline describes it as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Hacker news new past comments ask show jobs submit. Once you have zoomed in, you are able to click and drag the picture, thus enabling you to move from black to white picture pixel. Scroll down and across to see the the full world for xkcd 1110. Click for the full xkcd experience xkcd did it again. Now i get the point of the comic the lack of zoom and forced clicking and dragging is not a lack of feature it is a feature. Todays xkcd comic, unless someone can convince me otherwise, now holds the record for the biggest comic panel ever. Click and drag today, xkcd featured a comic with a comically large image that is navigated by clicking and dragging. Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd.
A few years ago, student rob matthews printed every wikipedia featured. Xkcd is a webcomic created by randall munroe in 2005. It shouldnt come as a surprise then that munroe has experimented with interactive comics more than once, and often to wonderful outcomes. It an online comic strip drawn in stickfigure style the artwork can nonetheless be quite impressive, especially the expanded clickanddrag or micromacro zoom pieces. Its an amazing, immersive, very timeconsuming, but rewarding experience to. In real life, we cant put a metal pole between the earth and the moon.
Half of the people did not heard it but for the rest it was not useful as last time. If youre new to wiki editing, see the explain xkcd. Its a tribute to house of leaves, and it treats the punchline as a window to a ginormous, explorable world that you can see by clicking and dragging. On september 19, 2012, click and drag was published, which featured a panel which can be explored via clicking and dragging its insides. As the tagline goes, its a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language but the cartoons also deals with an array of other topics, from philosophy to the spice girls over the years, xkcd gathered an impressive number of followers online, making it one of the.
He is a very funny and intelligent man who puts a ton of work into his comics. People have considered printing out wikipedia before. The new click and drag strip at xkcd invites readers to do exactly what the title suggests as they navigate their way around an enormous world of silhouetted landscapes and stickfigure people having adventures and quiet moments alike. Everything you need to know about xkcd comic click and drag.
Here are the best, all content is from xkcd site and all credit belongs to the creator, randall munroe he has it under 2. I was frustrated at the clicking and dragging, so i was looking for something like this. The definitive collection of xkcd programmers comics. Anyway, really really good, and not only because of the temperature graph, but also because it puts historical events in relation with the temperature and helps explain quite a lot of things that happened in the past. No one likes my novelty ringtone, an audio recording of a phone on vibrate. Xkcd is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language created by randall munroe. Click and drag is an actually a vast, draggable world of injokes and wonder. Among the best ones, we find for a complete list go here. Click and drag 418 points by nrkn on sept 19, 2012 hide past web favorite 89 comments. Fittingly, the strip is called click and drag and youll have to do a lot of. And if you do that, you start exploring a larger drawing. What makes it worse is that the mouseover text for this strip is very similar to the one from keyboard mash. This clickanddrag exploration reproduces the thrill of discovering new horizons, getting lost sometimes, finding unexpected things, seeing beauty, humor, desolation or happiness here and there.
Some comics allow the reader to interact with the comic. It is a gagaday comic and generally does not have a continuing plot line or continuity though there are occasional short story arcs. Now, with the help of github user n01se, click and drag has been turned into an mmo. It immediately triggered positive response on social websites and forums. The other day, web comic genius randall munroe of xkcd unleashed a comic that was a different sort of amazing from his usual dose of amazing. Jan 15, 2019 xkcd 1110 click and drag 6 star wars original trilogy 1 le citta invisibili invisible cities italo calvino 1 include characters. The mouse does move off the view port during drag, so its probably not that much more efficient. According to the source code, the comic is 14 north, 2. It was especially great for time, as they summarizeddiscussed the plot line for months, and maintained links to the various archives of the whole story. And so, i present, for your reading enjoyment, the definitive collection of the best xkcd comics for programmers. Aug 08, 2015 ive found explain xkcd to be great for some of randalls higher concept comics, like click and drag, pixels and, of course, time.
Creators continue finding ways to use digital comics that print cant replicate. I can only control my voice once every six years, and i must scream. Also, anyone have any news on how to get the go big to go small hint. We have an explanation for all 2273 xkcd comics, and only 30 1% are incomplete.
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