Swine Flu
I’d been trying to find a way to describe my opinions on the hand-wavy-ness about the swine flu that’s been popping up everywhere on the web over the last twelve hours. XKCD got there first and did it better than I could have.
XKCD gets it right again
This blog has turned into an other-people’s-stuff reposting service. When I get home from Vilnius I’ll do something about that. For now, though, enjoy XKCD’s latest (click for embiggenment).
Reasons to buy the kindle
I’ve been generally against the idea of e-books, or at least I’ve been telling everyone how they aren’t as good as real books for ages (anyone who’s asked has received a quote from Neil Gaiman – who was in turn quoting Douglas Adams – about how books are sharks in return). However, XKCD has hit [...]
Theft
Once again, he hotlinks XKCD, but it’s a message worth spreading (click to embiggen): (And as Reynolds pointed out, The Open Rights Group fights against this sort of nonsense, so please, if you feel at all strongly about this, join them)
Ah, how true
Today's xkcd strip, Python, gets it right once again: Incidentally (he says), I met xkcd, a.k.a. Randall Munroe, when I was in the States. He's a nice bloke.
