When xkcd reminds you of pweb

Postby **locke** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:32 pm

you know what's shameful?

I didn't know there were scrollovers.

This discovery is like finding out Firefox can launch with multiple tabs with multiple home pages. or that windows+E launches an explorer window. I love computer magic.

Now I have to go read them all again.

YAY!

Postby **locke** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:34 pm

my favorite:
FÃœCKING BLUE SHELLS

scrollover: You can evade blue shells in double dash, but it is deep magic.

Syphon the Sun · Postby **Syphon the Sun** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:20 pm

It's not xkcd, but it's totally their bag.

Eddie Pinz · Postby **Eddie Pinz** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:45 pm

That's amazing.

Postby **Eaquae Legit** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:28 pm

I still think this is the best pie chart ever.

eriador · Postby **eriador** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:35 am

Nah. This one is even better.

Mich · Postby **Mich** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:51 am

Nah. This one is even better.

*smacks forehead*

starlooker · Postby **starlooker** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:04 pm

I have that damn song in my head now.

*walks away, alternatingly cursing and humming, "Never gonna give you up..." *

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:46 am

Nah. This one is even better.
*smacks forehead*

One of the reasons you don't act like /b/ when you're not in /b/ is that the correct response in most cases would be just an image. And this isn't really the right venue for that.

Also: if you use tinyurl or the like, it's more effective.

eriador · Postby **eriador** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:05 pm

Eh. Youtube obfuscates pretty well.

Postby **Jayelle** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:19 pm

I don't click on Youtube links.

eriador · Postby **eriador** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:32 pm

Well... I don't click on tinyurl links (for the most part)

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:47 am

eri's recent post in the antivirus thread reminds me of this one:

"We actually stand around the antivirus displays with the Mac users just waiting for someone to ask."

eriador · Postby **eriador** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:15 pm

I've always thought that a Mac user would do a similar thing, except with with a Prius

Postby **Boothby** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:11 pm

I think that eriador has gone and gotten himself kill evil banned on that one.

EL, you are correct. You WIN THE GAME!

(eriador, I think it would have to be a white Prius, with silver trim, neh?)

Noodle · Postby **Noodle** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:56 pm

If we're no longer talking xkcd and instead talking charts, then I submit this series of charts:

http://www.aclevercookie.com/rap-lyrics ... nd-graphs/

Syphon the Sun · Postby **Syphon the Sun** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:10 pm

On the other hand, poor Samara -- transcoded to FLV. No one deserves that.

eriador · Postby **eriador** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:52 pm

speaking of which...

http://fffff.at/rolltube

Mich · Postby **Mich** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:17 am

Oh... oh, my. So evil. Oh, so evil.

I must place on someone's computer.

I love that the download is in ytmnd style, too.

Wind Swept · Postby **Wind Swept** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:42 pm

It doesn't get much more evil than that.

fawkes · Postby **fawkes** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:45 pm

Eh, this thread'll do. Go here.

eriador · Postby **eriador** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:08 pm

Ooooh! I <3 this! And I'm surprised it wasn't a RickRoll.

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:36 pm

I prefer the Arbuckle idea. He's still there, but you don't see his thoughts, which is theoretically what's actually happening.

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:55 am

Can anyone help me understand the most recent one?
http://xkcd.com/399/

Mich · Postby **Mich** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:37 pm

The title is the hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling ... an_Problem.

To summarize, given a number of cities and the costs of traveling from any city to any other city, what is the least-cost round-trip route that visits each city exactly once and then returns to the starting city? The first two things written are possible solutions, but selling on eBay completely negates the entire thing.

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:00 am

To be a little more specific... the O(stuff) in each panel shows the running time complexity of each solution. O(n) would mean that a solution is linear; that is the amount of time it takes to run would approximately double if you double the number of inputs (this is for inputs that are 'very large'). So, the amount of time it would take to solve the problem for size n would be Cn + c, where C and c are constants. For O(n^2), it takes four times as long when you double the input, and so on.

The first two show two solutions, both of which are rather slow (since the Traveling Salesman Problem is a rather difficult one to solve efficiently). The third panel has O(1), which means that the solution always takes the same amount of time, no matter how big the problem is. So, no matter how many cities you go to, the amount of time you take to calculate where to go is always the same, since you always just go to ebay, no matter where the people are.

Postby **Boothby** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:18 pm

You people are sick.

Postby **Luet** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:49 am

This from the man who made a scale model battle room with his kids (or something like that). I was at your and Ethan's "Science and Ender's Game" presentation at EnderCon. I was awed by your geekocity.

eriador · Postby **eriador** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:33 am

Rollover: When charged particles of more than 5 TeV pass through a bubble chamber, they leave a trail of candy.

If you don't get it, try this.

Postby **Dr. Mobius** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:23 pm

Well I totally did not see that coming. Nope, not at all.

Rei · Postby **Rei** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:41 pm

As I was finding it an exciting thing reading about missing quires from a manuscript and when they vanished and how one was found stitched into a different manuscript altogether after being lost for some 400 years, this seemed applicable to all us academics in obscure fields. It really is exciting to someone!

Postby **Luet** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:19 am

Check out this comment and reply on the xkcd blag:

http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/04/24/a-list/#comment-17339

Noodle · Postby **Noodle** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:50 am

Speaking of the xkcd blag there's this:

http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/05/20/gps-cyborg-implant/

very subtle Ender reference in this post.

Postby **Dr. Mobius** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:34 pm

Personally, I'm kinda interested in this geohashing idea of his, which appears to be an even geekier take on the already geeked-out geocaching.

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:32 pm

I keep hearing this related to geocaching, but I'm not quite seeing the similarity beyond that you just use coordinates to get somewhere. Geohashing is like a meetup point, not a treasure hunt, isn't it?

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