Its meant for you to explore the world and its immense size filled with little details every now and then. It turns out the cannon has a motorized base, and can make holes just fine using the barrel itself as a battering ram. Quick and dirty scripts bash and python used to grab and piece together xkcd 1110. So far, this is a common expression of the way a sophisticated technology is built on simple building blocks, with one set of tools used to build a more powerful set of tools, and so on see for instance this article. Additional parts include an umbrella on top and a trailer unit consisting a telescoping pole with a matchbox and match on top. A conversation with randall munroe, the creator of xkcd. The only legitimate reason for not liking it is jealousy that you can never be as clever as randall munroe, the genius behind xkcd.
Like most things by randall monroe, its not the drawing. Cueball asks megan what she does, and she begins by answering i make tools that make tools. It was lovingly assembled from highresolution original scans of the comics the mouseover text is discreetly included, and features a lot of doodles, notes, and puzzles in the margins. The mouse does move off the view port during drag, so its probably not that much more efficient.
Click and drag, where the title explains what the user should do to experience it. A website to help understand xkcd comics via user contributed notes. Forwards advanced software delivers a digital twin of the network, a completely accurate mathematical model, in software. Installing the application is as simple as downloading, extracting, and launching. Manuals alttext the most ridiculous offender of all is the sudoers man page, which for 15 years has started with a quick guide to ebnf, a system for defining the grammar of a language.
It might be interesting to split up each page into subpages of this, and then transclude in. I dont know, but i spent about half and hour exploring it before my arm wore out. According to the source code, the comic is 14 north, 2. A scraper to download xkcd s awesome click and drag comic. The definitive collection of xkcd programmers comics. I was frustrated at the clicking and dragging, so i was looking for something like this. Working on integrating captions by merging it using. She is the secondmost frequently appearing character, after cueball, and the most frequently appearing female character. Randall munroe began his career in physics working with robots at nasas langley research center. Explore a gigapixel of the xkcd 1110 webcomic in a zoomable interface. Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions is a collection of many of the blogs most popular answers, along with brand new weird and wonderful questions. If you go through xkcd archives, you will notice some of the scanned comics where paper is visible or the handwritte.
Transcripts of those interviews are available in appendix vii. So a link to click and drag and click and drag are different, see. 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. I think you can enable drag lock on snow leopard for the same effect. This allows users to search through a database of every xkcd cartoon. On september 19, 2012, click and drag was published, which featured a panel which can be explored via clicking and dragging its insides.
Everything you need to know about xkcd comic click and. Click a first competition field, with teams at opposite ends. She does not necessarily always represent the same character from comic to comic. This book is a collection of strips from xkcd, a free webcomic. 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. Everything you need to know about todays xkcd comic, click and drag by james plafke sep 19th, 2012, 4. A runonce python code to extract xkcd images from the website and aggregate them on to your local drive. The likely shape of the bells was determined through consultation with several bellringing experts at the tower of london.
It features selections from the first 600 comics, including various author and fan favorites. This was done because the mediawiki software automatically capitalizes the first character of page titles, so comics like skeyboardleopard would usually have their titles mangled, with caps sensitivity it isnt. By 2008, xkcd was able to financially support munroe and radtke reasonably well through the sale of multiple thousand tshirts per month. The full size image with no tile resizing would be 165888x65536 or 10 gigapixels. If you are a big fan of the popular xkcd webcomic you might have wondered how to use the comic as your desktop wallpaper, and today ive got that answer for you in the form of a tiny application that rotates your wallpaper with random xkcd comics using random xkcd wallpaper. The mathematics behind xkcd a conversation with randall munroe tlaura taalman his past april, math horizons sat down with randall munroe, the author of the popular webcomic xkcd, to talk about some of his most mathematical comics. And if you do that, you start exploring a larger drawing. The previous version of this answer was incorrect, mostly because i didnt consider how it extended south i didnt see the holes the first time so i assumed it only stretched north. This means youre free to copy and share these comics but not to sell them. Unlike legacy community software, cmnty platform comes with more than just forum and blog functionality.
How quickly would the oceans drain if a circular portal 10 meters in radius leading into space was created at the bottom of challenger deep, the deepest spot in the ocean. They are scanned and processed digitally from what i understand based on my short experience as an amateur wannabe comic artist. But due to design constraints it wont work without a. How would the earth change as the water is being drained. The editors note tells you to save a copy of the image to view the full comic. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. This work is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 2. The model becomes a single source of truth for your network, enabling network operators to easily search any and all network data in a clean, friendly interface. The online version is 1 gigapixel without the blanks and 10 gigapixel as rectangular image. We met at christopher newport university, randalls alma mater, where he was about to give an.
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