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The joy of XKCD

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Posted by Bob on 1 October 2010 - 9:42pm.

I just love XKCD. For the uninitiated, it's a regularly updated mine of nerdy cartoons - maths, science, the internet, popular culture and love, mostly. I just love it. Here's why:

And this....

And this....

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Excellent! Thanks for

Excellent! Thanks for posting that, Mr Bear

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STD | 1 October 2010 - 9:47pm

This is my favourite

I have posted it a few times here

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el hombre malo | 1 October 2010 - 9:52pm

It's a well deserved classic.

Nice one, EHM.

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Bob | 1 October 2010 - 9:56pm

Feel free, Massive,

...by the way, to add as many XKCD strips as may tickle you.

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Bob | 1 October 2010 - 9:58pm

I thought today's was rather a classic...

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Gauntlet | 1 October 2010 - 10:00pm

Though I think this is my absolute favourite

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Gauntlet | 1 October 2010 - 10:03pm

That's rather lovely - a

That's rather lovely - a Valentine card waiting to happen.

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man.of.soup | 2 October 2010 - 4:28pm

this one

had me laughing out loud earlier this week, mostly due to the cartoons round the sides

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maggieloveshopey | 1 October 2010 - 10:01pm

It's a funny thing

but the FT was on the topic of fungibility only the other day:

Dear Economist: Is garlic bread really fungible?

August 21, 2010

Having bought identical garlic breads for my wife and myself, I proposed that we should equally share one immediately and equally share the second later. She was unhappy with this, proposing that she eat half of hers and that I eat half of mine. When I suggested that half garlic breads should be fungible, she accused me of making the word up. Assuming that garlic breads could be exactly shared equally, had I been correctly using established economic terminology?

Hungry Chris, Teesside

http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/08/dear-economist-is-garlic-bread-re...

[edit: but as for nerd humour, much as I love XKCD, I have been amazed at the extent of my own enthusiasm for this TV show:

]

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SpaceBoy | 3 October 2010 - 4:26am

Do you also read Questionable Content?

It's a webcomic with a plot, but mainly lots of nerd/ science/ popular culture jokes.

This was from a couple of days ago:

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Gauntlet | 1 October 2010 - 10:13pm

One for Lenny. I know he has a soft spot for this tune.

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Bob | 1 October 2010 - 10:45pm

I love the silliness of XKCD, but these two have stayed with me:

http://xkcd.com/659/

and

http://xkcd.com/695/

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sarahthetemp | 1 October 2010 - 11:54pm

While we're talking about comics...

I just wanted to share something that makes me laugh like a drain.

It proves that, truly, you can improve any comic by substituting "Christ, what an asshole" for the last caption.

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Hannah | 2 October 2010 - 10:00pm
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