The ultimate guide to xkcd, part 1

Life is short, xkcd is long – over 700 strips and counting. What to do?

Fear not – I’ve picked the best ones for you, starting with numbers 1 to 301… the ones that made me laugh out loud and the ones that made me cry. Actually they pretty much all made me laugh out loud, aside from the barrel ones.

The Barrel Strips – remind me of Peter Blegvad’s Leviathan.
xkcd.com/1/
xkcd.com/11/
xkcd.com/22/
xkcd.com/25/
xkcd.com/31/

The Other Strips
xkcd.com/23/ – t-shirts
xkcd.com/33/ – self-reference
xkcd.com/42/ – car insurance
xkcd.com/44/ – love
xkcd.com/45/ – shrodinger’s comic
xkcd.com/46/ – secrets
xkcd.com/56/ – the cure
xkcd.com/57/ – wait for me
xkcd.com/58/ – why do you love me?
xkcd.com/59/ – graduation
xkcd.com/66/ – abusive astronomy
xkcd.com/74/ – su doku
xkcd.com/75/ – curse levels
xkcd.com/77/ – bored with the internet
xkcd.com/79/ – iambic pentameter
xkcd.com/90/ – jacket
xkcd.com/92/ – sunrise
xkcd.com/93/ – jeremy irons
xkcd.com/107/ – snakes on a plane 2
xkcd.com/109/ – spoiler alert!
xkcd.com/114/ – computational linguistics
xkcd.com/120/ – dating service
xkcd.com/122/ – quirky girls
xkcd.com/128/ – dPain over dT
xkcd.com/149/ – Linux sandwich
xkcd.com/150/ – grownups – where it all started when I spotted this strip stuck to a fridge in someone’s Flickr photostream
xkcd.com/175/ – automatic doors
xkcd.com/193/ – perfect sound
xkcd.com/197/ – ninja turtles
xkcd.com/219/ – blanket fort
xkcd.com/231/ – cat proximity
xkcd.com/251/ – cd tray fight
xkcd.com/262/ – cat captions
xkcd.com/270/ – t h white’s merlin
xkcd.com/273/ – the electromagnetic spectrum
xkcd.com/275/ – meet the parents
xkcd.com/283/ – movie pet peeve
xkcd.com/300/ – mildly sleazy uses of Facebook pt14

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Good day

Three good things happened today.

  • I discovered an awesome web site, thanks to Sky News and the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland: RadarVirtuel. Sadly it is so awesome, and word of it clearly spread so far, that their servers went into melt-down and it’s been offline most of the day. It allows you to track planes in real time. Click on them and it tells you where they came from and where they are going and shows you their flight paths. It’s as if David Cameron’s invitation to the people to run the government now extends to Air Traffic Control. “Who wants big government telling planes where they can and cannot fly?”. I am expecting a USB headset in the post following a Tory landslide. I need never leave the house again.
  • Another fricking awesome web site. The cartoons at xkcd.com – they are almost all wonderful but here are three random ones I spotted this evening:
    http://www.xkcd.com/79/
    http://www.xkcd.com/75/
    http://www.xkcd.com/90/
  • Toby Ziegler from The West Wing walked past my office door today. He SMILED at me.

Today we also speculated about what Air Traffic Controllers did with their unexpected day off:
Me: They played Pong.
Neil: They did their laundry.

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xkcd cartoons

Check this out:
http://xkcd.com/727/

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Suppertime! on your mobile

Suppertime! is now iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry and Android-friendly… so you can browse recipes on your phone in the kitchen, on the train or where ever you may find yourself.

http://www.suppertime.co.uk/pages/

It’s all done with the WPTouch WordPress plugin.

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Hayloft

Love this… even if it is too wide for the page.

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