If Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite print cartoon (and it is), then its online counterpart is xkcd. The brainchild of former NASA robotics engineer Randall Munroe, it is a webcomic that mixes romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Most of all, it speaks to the sense of humor of the internet and geek culture in general. Some of it is obscure and flies over my head, but a good number of the comics just hit home and tickle the funny bone. And, in the case of my favorite all-time comic ever (Spirit, featured in this post), tugs at the heart-strings.
xkcd also features a great online store with some cool posters, pins and apparel. I rock the “Science: It Works….” t-shirt in my wardrobe (though it admittedly gets less use than it should). Munroe operates under a solid creative commons license, so I’m hosting several of my favorite comics here, though I encourage everyone to visit xkcd.com and to buy the xkcd: volume 0
book on Amazon.
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If Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite print cartoon (and it is), then its online counterpart is xkcd. The brainchild of former NASA robotics engineer Randall Munroe, it is a webcomic that mixes romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Most of all, it speaks to the sense of humor of the internet and geek culture in general. Some of it is obscure and flies over my head, but a good number of the comics just hit home and tickle the funny bone. And, in the case of my favorite all-time comic ever (Spirit, featured in this post), tugs at the heart-strings.
xkcd also features a great online store with some cool posters, pins and apparel. I rock the “Science: It Works….” t-shirt in my wardrobe (though it admittedly gets less use than it should). Munroe operates under a solid creative commons license, so I’m hosting several of my favorite comics here, though I encourage everyone to visit xkcd.com and to buy the xkcd: volume 0 book on Amazon.
Click on through to see Part 4. Read more…
If Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite print cartoon (and it is), then its online counterpart is xkcd. The brainchild of former NASA robotics engineer Randall Munroe, it is a webcomic that mixes romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Most of all, it speaks to the sense of humor of the internet and geek culture in general. Some of it is obscure and flies over my head, but a good number of the comics just hit home and tickle the funny bone. And, in the case of my favorite all-time comic ever (Spirit, featured in this post), tugs at the heart-strings.
xkcd also features a great online store with some cool posters, pins and apparel. I rock the “Science: It Works….” t-shirt in my wardrobe (though it admittedly gets less use than it should). Munroe operates under a solid creative commons license, so I’m hosting several of my favorite comics here, though I encourage everyone to visit xkcd.com and to buy the xkcd: volume 0 book on Amazon.
Click on through to see Part 3.
Read more…
If Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite print cartoon (and it is), then its online counterpart is xkcd. The brainchild of former NASA robotics engineer Randall Munroe, it is a webcomic that mixes romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Most of all, it speaks to the sense of humor of the internet and geek culture in general. Some of it is obscure and flies over my head, but a good number of the comics just hit home and tickle the funny bone. And, in the case of my favorite all-time comic ever (Spirit, featured in this post), tugs at the heart-strings.
xkcd also features a great online store with some cool posters, pins and apparel. I rock the “Science: It Works….” t-shirt in my wardrobe (though it admittedly gets less use than it should). Munroe operates under a solid creative commons license, so I’m hosting several of my favorite comics here, though I encourage everyone to visit xkcd.com and to buy the xkcd: volume 0 book on Amazon.
Click on through to see Part 2. Read more…
Click through to enhance your midichlorians levels with some completely unnecessary, but nonetheless interesting information on Star Wars, courtesy of the folks at Online PhD.
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This is really less an infographic about information and more a cautionary tale about the possessive and obsessive nature of Wiki-editors. Sure, some of these are downright funny, but some are also reflective of dissociative behavior patterns and, well, political battles.
InformationIsBeautiful.net has taken the data from Wikipedia and created a visualization thereof to show the online encyclopedia’s most heated debates. Some of which are actually about things other than UK English and Americanized English spelling conventions.
The Wikipedia entry for the lamest edit wars is, in and of itself, also a good read.
Click through to see the graphic (for full sized, click the image). Read more…
If Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite print cartoon (and it is), then its online counterpart is xkcd. The brainchild of former NASA robotics engineer Randall Munroe, it is a webcomic that mixes romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Most of all, it speaks to the sense of humor of the internet and geek culture in general. Some of it is obscure and flies over my head, but a good number of the comics just hit home and tickle the funny bone. And, in the case of my favorite all-time comic ever (Spirit, featured in this post), tugs at the heart-strings.
xkcd also features a great online store with some cool posters, pins and apparel. I rock the “Science: It Works….” t-shirt in my wardrobe (though it admittedly gets less use than it should). Munroe operates under a solid creative commons license, so I’m hosting several of my favorite comics here, though I encourage everyone to visit xkcd.com and to buy the xkcd: volume 0 book on Amazon.
Click on through to see Part 1. Read more…
I’ve settled into a nice niche with respect to Twitter news. Yes, you can get some breaking stories truly from the masses via Trending Topics, but I also rely on two specific sources for news updates. One is for headlines and the other is for commentary.
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Glenn Beck is not a good person. That shouldn’t come as any sort of a surprise to an intelligent individual who a) can think for themselves and b) has been exposed to the world at large through travels, news or talking to people not named Glenn Beck. Unfortunately, the guy has a large and scary following who dogmatically listen to what he says. This extends from politics to salesmanship.
There’s been a concerted effort (spearheaded by StopBeck.com and other websites) to pressure advertisers to dump Beck. This has driven him to ingraining low-grade, ethically challenged advertisers like gold companies into both his programming breaks and his programming itself. So little old ladies now a) still don’t believe that Obama is American and b) are getting hosed in their gold by telephone purchases. The Big Picture has produced a solid infographic explaining just how.
The lesson learned is that if you’re going to trust a crazy person on Fox, that crazy person should be Sheppard Smith. Click through for the infographic. Read more…
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Deoxyribonucleic acid is, quite literally, at the core of who and what each and every living thing on the planet is made up of. OK, so viri utilize ribonucleic acid (RNA) instead of DNA, and some theorize that the earliest earth life may have been based on self-replicating RNA instead of DNA, so it’s possible that more than just the common virus uses RNA still.
But that’s besides the point. All known complex life on Earth utilizes the computer-like coding of DNA to program its makeup. Instead of binary code (or, in binary: 01001001 01101110 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101) like a computer, living organisms use a combination of adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T) to program.
OnlineNursingPrograms.net has put together the below infographic to reflect 17 interesting things to know about DNA. Click through to enjoy! Read more…
