posts about xkcd.
yesterday i started reading the xkcd archives (maybe you’ve already noticed that yesterday). if you don’t know xkcd, it’s a webcomic “of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”. here are the ones i found particularly interesting, funny, or whatever:
- pi equals. reminds me of the classic “help, i’m trapped in a fortune cookie factory!” joke.
- what if.
- barrel – part 3. i wouldn’t say “wow!” in that situation, though.
- fourier. poor cat.
- secrets.
- useless. standard approachs suck for love.
- su doku. even i can solve these.
- national language.
- binary heart. if you check the parity of the read ones in every column, you’ll notice most of them are even. is this a coincidence? (and don’t ask why i stumbled about that…)
- laser scope. sometimes the primitive word jokes are the best.
- riemann-zeta. about love & primes. this one is not only for number theorists.
- nihilism. squirrels! cool!
- alice and bob. the real story of eve.
- matrix transform. if i’d ever had to solve linear algebra exercises again, i’d try to turn this one in.
- valentine’s day. nothing to add.
- cat proximity. yay, how true. meow!
- code talkers. another one on cryptography.
- fixed width. nerd talk on irc. i don’t know what scares me more, laughing about this one or thinking that i’m probably knowing people who would really do this.
- exploits of a mom. well. if you don’t know what an sql injection attack is, read about it here.
