xkcd's 13-Gigapixel Webcomic

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Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @08:28AM from the all-the-pixels-you-need-and-more dept.

New submitter Nomen writes "Today's xkcd: Click and Drag (Google Maps version) is probably the world's biggest web comic at an RSI-inducing resolution of 165,888x79,872 pixels. It's made up of 225 different images that take up 5.52MB of space. Now, if only the mines were powered by nethack..."

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Re:In unrelated news, by buchner.johannes · 2012-09-19 08:35 · Score: 5, Funny

And a world-wide increase in carpal tunnel syndrome.

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OMG by Master+Moose · 2012-09-19 08:46 · Score: 5, Funny

I have just found a bigger time waster than Slashdot.

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Re:I was actually disappointed by this. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 09:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Facebook? Get out of here.
Re:typifies xkcd by CanHasDIY · 2012-09-19 09:23 · Score: 5, Funny

WTF is an "artefact"?
It's very similar to an artifact, except artefacts are only found by people who don't know what the little red, squiggly line under the word is for.

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Re:I was actually disappointed by this. by thatotherguy007 · 2012-09-19 09:29 · Score: 5, Funny

I was hoping someone would do something like that. I hope that server can handle some traffic.
Anyone esle wish that one of the whales in the sky was a flower pot thinking to itself "not again"? (HHGttG)
Re:is it funny? by Translation+Error · 2012-09-19 09:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Are you sure the whales are flying and not falling? I assumed it was a Hitchhiker's Guide reference.
Impossible to tell until they reach the ground and we see whether they miss it or not.

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