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FILTER RESULTS ►Correct Horse Battery Staple
In his 936th xkcd comic strip, Randall Munro described what is wrong with common passwords and suggested a method of passphrase generation that is simpler to use and provides greater security. Unfortunately, I know of no popular websites that permit xkcd-style passphrases. I do still recall, however, the xkcd-style passphrase that CompuServe assigned me about [...]
Asteroid Warning Light
Just as there are certain streets I shouldn't walk down, there are certain parts of the Internet to which I should know better than to go, but sometimes I take a wrong turn. As Randall Munroe lamented, "Someone is wrong on the Internet."
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Preparations for the 2013 Kauffman Foundation Webloggers' Forum Advance: We Are Aware of All Internet Traditions Weblogging
"What's that--the goggles, the red?" "It's the official weblogging uniform, from RFC 13651919." "Why?" "[Randall Munroe](http://xkcd.com/239/) issued an RFC--RFC 13651919--and it became part of rough consensus and running code." "What?"...Show More Summary
What if all subways in North-America were connected?
Just for the heck of it, Randall Munroe, mastermind behind the geek-favorite webcomic XKCD, has created a map showing all of North-America's subways connected, from Canada to Mexico.
Every subway system in North America, connected
Here with your daily dose of infrastructure porn is XKCD's Randall Munroe, who's gone and rounded up all of North America's various subway systems and combined them into one big interconnected map. (Not to be confused with this metro-inspired map of U.S. Show More Summary
Time: XKCD's slo-mo time-lapse comic
On March 25, Randall Munroe ran a strip called Time, an enigmatic, wordless image whose tool-tip was "Wait for it." Ever since, the strip has been updating with subsequent frames, all of them making up a time-lapse animation of a lovely story about a day of sand-castle building at the beach. The XKCD Wikia entry [...]
Asleep in Class
Just drink coffee. Sleep is for the weak. I wonder if the professor in this webcomic by Ryan Hudson is a reference to Randall Munroe from xkcd. Link
People Who Rescale Videos Without Thinking Need To Be Punished
And, as Randall Munroe points out in today's XKCD, this is how to do it. Maybe then they'll understand why preserving aspect ratios is important. [XKCD] More »
Randall Munroe (@xkcd) for Secretary of Energy?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/appoint-randall-munroe-xkcd-be-new-secretary-energy-less-straw-men-more-stick-figures/DKGRQ0qh?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl The White House has a petition to appoint Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, to be the new Secretary of Energy. Show More Summary
How many possible English tweets are there?
And how long would it take to read them all out loud? Randall Munroe answers these questions today at xkcd's what if? page — the answer involves Claude Shannon, a rock 100 miles wide and 100 miles high, and a very long-lived bird (or perhaps a reliable species of birds). You should definitely read the whole [...]
How Much Would the Sea Level Drop if Every Ship Was Removed from the Oceans at Once?
Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind xkcd and a profoundly brainy guy, answers bizarre physics questions submitted to his What If? blog. His most recent question pondered the effect of the sudden absence of the water displacement of...Show More Summary
If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
As XKCD's Randall Munroe recently pointed out, it's probably worth considering. Psychologists and sociologists agree with him. Here's why. More »
FedExing The Internet
Randall Munroe wonders when, if ever, “the bandwidth of the Internet [will] surpass that of FedEx”: Cisco estimates that total internet traffic currently averages 167 terabits per second. FedEx has a fleet of 654 aircraft with a lift capacity of 26.5 million pounds daily. A solid-state laptop drive weighs about 78 grams and can hold [...]
FedEx's file-transfer capacity versus the Internet
Today on XKCD's "What If...?", Randall Munroe runs the numbers of when and whether the Internet's throughput will ever exceed FedEx's sneakernet file-transfer capacity (one interesting note here: why not treat FedEx's trucks and planes full of hard-drives and SD cards as part of the Internet? After all, you book your FedEx pickup over TCP/IP, [...]
Interplanetary Cessna
At Randall Munroe's What If? blog, where he researches the oddest questions from readers, he tells us what would happen to a typical airplane if it were flown on other planets and the larger moons in the solar system. For each of the...Show More Summary
Randall Munroe Explains Why There Are No Rich Frequentist Statisticians: New Yorker #fail Vulnerable to a Dutch Book Weblogging
Randall Munroe: Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis: >Bayesian Statistics and what Nate Silver Gets Wrong: The Bayesian approach is much less helpful when there is no consensus about what the prior probabilities should be…. In actual practice,...Show More Summary
Making Up Numbers About Money: An Up-Goer Five Study
Some of you have likely seen the amazing comic where former NASA employee Randall Munroe explains the Saturn V rocket using only the one thousand most common English words: Up-Goer Five. This turned out to be so much fun, Since then, the game of explaining research using basic words has taken off, aided by the [...]
Up-goer five semantics
A couple of months ago, Randall Munroe's xkcd web comic explained the design of the Saturn V rocket using only the thousand most common words of English: "the Up Goer Five explained using only the ten hundred words people use the most often". Explaining hard things in simple language has now become an internet meme. Show More Summary
Can You Cook A Steak By Dropping It From Space?
Anyone else a big fan of the stick-figure-talking-about-nerdy-science-and-pop-culture webcomic xkcd? Yeah, thought so. I only recently became aware of its newer satellite blog what if?, in which every tuesday, Randall Munroe answers a user-submitted question in his typical hyper-nerdy, insanely entertaining style. Show More Summary
Cooking steak with freefall
In today's XKCD What If?, Randall Munroe answers the question, "From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground?" posed by Alex Lahey: At supersonic and hypersonic speeds, a shockwave forms around the steak which helps protect it from the faster and faster winds. [...]
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