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XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Has Already Become a Best-Seller
destinyland writes "Wednesday the geeky cartoonist behind XKCD announced that he'd publish a new book answering hypothetical science questions in September. And within 24 hours, his as-yet-unpublished work had become Amazon's #2 best-selling book. 'Ironically, this book is titled What If?,' jokes one blogger, noting it resembles an XKCD comic where 'In our yet-to-happen future, this book decides to travel backwards through time, stopping off in March of 2014 to inform Amazon's best-seller list that yes, in our coming timeline this book will be widely read...' Randall Munroe's new book will be collecting his favorite 'What If...' questions, but will also contain his never-before published answers to some questions that he'd found 'particularly neat.'"
http://xkcd.com/1102/
The True Scotsman called, he wants you to know that you're a terrible human being.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
For productivity reasons, you should have constructed your critic without details, so you could reuse the reply in many other cases.
For example: "I don't like it. Therefore, it's stupid. And people who like it are stupid too."
Exactly, he's just trading on his name. He would never have gained that many readers if he hadn't already been famous for... er... I'll get back to you.
holy shit
guys
government is complicated.
Hell, I'm not smart enough for Garfield.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Oh my god, it's you! Hey everyone, it's the guy whose opinion is also objectively true!
I've got a list of questions I've been saving for you, now where did I put it...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Conjecture: everything that has been told by Xkcd has already been said at least once by someone on Slashdot prior to it.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
And What If? follows Mythbusters in the sense that once the question is answered, he keeps pushing until something blows up.
I'm Spartacus.
If only Slashdot's comment form allowed input of stick-figures, it might be the case that we wouldn't need Xkcd...
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I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Hell, I'm not smart enough for Garfield.
And I'm clearly not smart enough for the Family Circus... I never even got one.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
Slashdot has contained comments on everything from Natalie Portman to Hot Grits.
As I understand it, there is nothing between Natalie Portman and Hot Grits. Kinda like Brooke Shields and her Calvins.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
no, I'm Spartacus
I'm Spartacus.
no, I'm Spartacus
We are Spartacus? What happend to Legion?
which conveniently leads to my main worry about the book - how's he going to get image hovertext on paper?