Comments on: Why we love xkcd

By: “The Next Uri Geller” – 3rd show :: cimddwc

“The Next Uri Geller” – 3rd show :: cimddwc — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:31:36 +0000

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By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:23:05 +0000

I too can join the ranks of those who discovered xkcd, browsed the entire site in one sitting, and then sent link after link to my (more and more annoyed) friends.

(I still move the hyphen when I hear people say it.)

By: gyokusai

gyokusai — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:42:17 +0000

LOL, when I first encountered XKCD, I too browsed the whole archive until the sun came up, and hammered my friends with emails linking to XKCD cartoons for weeks!

It’s just gorgeous.

^_^J.

By: Egaeus

Egaeus — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:59:14 +0000

Having spent hours of sleeping time reading the entire archives of XKCD, I can authoritatively state that it’s freaking hilarious. Either that, or I’ve gone completely insane to the point that while sitting in front of my computer by myself, I am able to laugh so hard at something unfunny that I begin to tear up. The electromagnetic spectrum was particularly funny. He’s just like me, but much funnier.

By: XKCD hits the sweet spot « Dusty Loft

XKCD hits the sweet spot « Dusty Loft — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:47:34 +0000

[…] Bad Astronomer Phil Plait says it’s why we love XKCD, Rebecca at Skepchick posted it and PZ Myers at Pharyngula would wear it on a […]

By: crucified in space

crucified in space — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:17:34 +0000

You might wonder what it would actually take to have supernatural powers be confirmed by experiment. This might give you an idea of how unbiased the scientific method can be:
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/propaganda/

By: Johnny Vector

Johnny Vector — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:58:53 +0000

Martin, take a look at the page source. You will wee that the text displayed is not in fact “alt text”, it is “title text”. Text specified by the ALT tag is to be displayed instead of the image. The text in the TITLE tag is available for display in addition to the image. Some browsers put TITLE text in the status bar, but most put it in a tooltip.

Mozilla used to put ALT text in a tooltip for several versions, but that was wrong, and really farked up those of us who actually tried to write useful ALT tags. Y’know, for people browsing with Lynx, and/or text-to-speech readers, or with image loading turned off. Fortunately that’s been fixed, by the death of Mozilla if nothing else.

My mother once accused me of pedanticness. I explained that the word was “pedantry”.