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XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Has Already Become a Best-Seller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 And within 24 hours, his as-yet-unpublished work had become Amazon's #2 best-selling book.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/
That's the comic, not What If? - which is all about things like how much power you'd need to illuminate the shadow of the moon or what happens to the Earth's geography if you drain the oceans of water.
I'm not smart enough for some of the XKCD strips...
You about done being bitter about somebody else's success?
I write professional videogame reviews! http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/
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."
holy shit
guys
government is complicated.
And What If? follows Mythbusters in the sense that once the question is answered, he keeps pushing until something blows up.
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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