Click for the full xkcd experience xkcd did it again. This is an amazing image. Yes, you have to click and drag around the map. It really captures the spirit of exploration, doesn’t it? Oh, don’t ...

The Web comic XKCD today updated an enduring favorite: a map of the Internet envisioned as an archipelago, with Web sites as islands whose sizes correspond to number of users. The map is full of nerdy ...

Several decades ago, it took a stand-up comedian like Steven Wright to work in shades of the brilliantly surreal when he deadpanned: “It’s a small world. But I wouldn’t want to paint it.” Today, it ...

XKCD has a web cartoon making the rounds that nicely summarizes 22,000 years of climate and human history. One important point: As the last ice age ended and temperatures heated up, humans did better ...

Every Monday morning, I wake up, come to work, turn my computer on, and ponder the same question. "Sure, I'd like to enter the Daytona 500, but I'd want to get it over with really quickly because it's ...

I was speaking yesterday to a teacher whose British accent is pronounced when he mentioned Monty Python in passing. “Who doesn’t like Monty Python,” I said. And his sour expression reminded me that ...

Randall Munroe, who draws the geekerrific xkcd webcomic, has created a really good chart showing relative radiation doses absorbed by humans doing various activities. I’ve put a piece of it here, the ...

Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic xkcd, is famous for doing some of the most intricate and creative pieces of art on the web. There are the maps of the internet, c. 2007 and 2010. There's a ...

The forums of the XKCD webcomic created by Randall Munroe in 2005 are currently offline after being impacted by a data breach which exposed the information of 561,991 users on July 1. The compromised ...