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Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form (time.com)
requerdanos writes: Randall Munroe, the former NASA roboticist and author of the web comic xkcd, spoke with Time magazine after the release of his latest book, Thing Explainer. Sort of. Time asked questions, and Randall's answers were in the form of seven comics that he drew in response. Obligatory xkcd.
... if he didn't do it this way one could say his responses would have been Comic Sans...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
My wife and I want to see you do a reddit AMA with all your answers in comic form too!
Tnx!
Min
On the whole, I find that I prefer Slashdot posts to twitter ones because I don't get limited to 140 chars before
There was no alt-text to be found!
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
One Lee Harvey Oswald was getting his firing position ready.
I like his recent one with Bill Gates.
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot
It lightly makes fun of us how 'the internet' is always trying to fix things. When execution is sometimes MUCH better than speculation.
I love this comic and respect the author, but let's be serious. This really just reveals that you need neither artistic talent nor to be particularly funny to be successful in communicating through the medium of comic strips. All you need is a willingness to truly give yourself to it. There are probably thousands of TIME readers who could make the internet a better place if they weren't being coaxed by TIME into continually shifting into "consumer" mode and living vicariously through others.
I'd like to have an ask Randall topic in Slashdot without comics.
Obviously this guy is extremely funny and we'd all like to know how he fooled Nasa in this Robotics thing.
Back in the early 80s, I was a HUGE fan of this little known alternative rock band from Ireland. It seemed like they were continually churning out amazing albums - Boy, October, War, The Joshua Tree... And, as usually happens with really talented groups, gradually more and more people found out about them. Yet even as their popularity grew, it seemed their music was losing something - I'd hear it and still enjoy it, but instead of "wow that's amazing" it was more "yeah that's more or less enjoyable".
Then, in the late 1980s, Time put U2 on the cover. It seemed like, after that, they changed. I can't blame them - it's likely just about impossible to not let fame go to your head - but they turned into just another group whose new albums had one or two decent songs and ten pieces of forgettable filler.
That's how I've felt about xkcd for some time now. Earlier it was consistently great; but more recently it generally doesn't seem to make me laugh or think. I doubt it's because Randall has become well known... but I do think xkcd has probably run its course.
#DeleteChrome
Its all black what?
Remember that one time when Randall munroe skewed an entire generations understanding what free speech is?
How about that other time, when he founded that shitposting doxing harassment web forum that spawned that recent spree shooter in Oregon, called /rk9/? And he's a glorious SJW, so,everything he does is super okay, even when it is hypocritical.
Oh, but he makes nerdy comics so let's suck his dick guys.
No resistance. Never happens in the real world.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/ra...
Never thought of him as being so mainstream...
What, you've never heard of a superconducting snake?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Great for Randall - he deserves publicity and all, but anyone else feel that his geek-exclusivity may be taken away if he gets to be as famous as he deserves?
I mean, next think you know Doctor Who will become a hipster thing and.... what.... NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!