It really captures the spirit of exploration, doesnt it. The eye of providence with a clock instead of the eye in the upper part of the pyramid and the text at your own pace in the lower part of the pyramid. But before you try to create a liveupdating paper wikipedia, lets look at what those printers would be doing. The previous version of this answer was incorrect, mostly because i didnt consider how it extended south i didnt see the holes the first time so i assumed it only stretched north. Among the most awesome things on the internet ever. On september 19, 2012, click and drag was published, which featured a panel which can be explored via clicking and dragging its insides. Sep 19, 2012 three finger scrolling works on a mac lion.
If it is referenced in an xkcd web comic, it should be here. Ive found explain xkcd to be great for some of randalls higher concept comics, like click and drag, pixels and, of course, time. The new horizons spacecraft is currently flying past pluto. Creators continue finding ways to use digital comics that print cant replicate.
Its a tribute to house of leaves, and it treats the punchline as a window to a ginormous, explorable world that you can see by clicking and dragging. This work is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 2. Its meant for you to explore the world and its immense size filled with little details every now and then. What makes it worse is that the mouseover text for this strip is very similar to the one from keyboard mash. Fittingly, the strip is called click and drag and youll have to do a lot of. Everything you need to know about xkcd comic click and drag. Once you have zoomed in, you are able to click and drag the picture, thus enabling you to move from black to white picture pixel. According to the source code, the comic is 14 north, 2. By having zoom and quick drag i no longer have the excitement and urge to keep dragging further in anticipation of whats next to show up. I dont have the coding experience to do this kind of thing for myself, so here is a fellow xkcd lovers take on it. People have considered printing out wikipedia before. Click and drag is an actually a vast, draggable world of injokes and wonder.
This means youre free to copy and share these comics but not to sell them. Dec 19, 2014 it an online comic strip drawn in stickfigure style the artwork can nonetheless be quite impressive, especially the expanded click and drag or micromacro zoom pieces. Explore a gigapixel of the xkcd 1110 webcomic in a zoomable interface. Some comics allow the reader to interact with the comic. Its an amazing, immersive, very timeconsuming, but rewarding experience to. I woke up to find several emails letting me know, to my dismay, that the comic doghouse diaries has already done a similar strip about the same experience. In real life, we cant put a metal pole between the earth and the moon. Now, with the help of github user n01se, click and drag has been turned into an mmo. The guy with the hat exploits what that would mean as the guys entire body is glue and bonds with the rubber person forever fish. The end of the pole near the moon would be pulled toward the moon by the moons gravity, and the rest of it would be pulled back. Headache, which was rereleased in 3d, as well as 1110. It immediately triggered positive response on social websites and forums. Its an analogy to compare the world we live in that was lost on me. Come to discuss the comics and other work by randall with other.
I was frustrated at the clicking and dragging, so i was looking for something like this. A scraper to download xkcds awesome click and drag comic. Click for the full xkcd experience xkcd did it again. He is a very funny and intelligent man who puts a ton of work into his comics. The comics tagline describes it as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. The osi 7layer burrito picking server hostnames server density blog. And so, i present, for your reading enjoyment, the definitive collection of the best xkcd comics for programmers. Editor faq for a specific guidance to this wiki and the more general help on how to edit wiki pages.
The new click and drag strip at xkcd invites readers to do exactly what the title suggests as they navigate their way around an enormous world of silhouetted landscapes and stickfigure people having adventures and quiet moments alike. It shouldnt come as a surprise then that munroe has experimented with interactive comics more than once, and often to wonderful outcomes. Now i get the point of the comic the lack of zoom and forced clicking and dragging is not a lack of feature it is a feature. Everything you need to know about todays xkcd comic, click and drag by james plafke sep 19th, 2012, 4. Half of the people did not heard it but for the rest it was not useful as last time. The other day, web comic genius randall munroe of xkcd unleashed a comic that was a different sort of amazing from his usual dose of amazing. Simple explanations of the sometimes complicated nerd comic. In the interests of science and possibly accidentally ddosing randalls image server sorry. Randall is famous for getting inside peoples heads, but unless youre in his, there will always be times when you just dont get it. Xkcd is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language created by randall munroe. The only legitimate reason for not liking it is jealousy that you can never be as clever as randall munroe, the genius behind xkcd.
Many of the jokes are based on math, physics, science, unix or internet memes, as well as romance and sex. I can only control my voice once every six years, and i must scream. Sep 20, 2012 creators continue finding ways to use digital comics that print cant replicate. As the tagline goes, its a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language but the cartoons also deals with an array of other topics, from philosophy to the spice girls over the years, xkcd gathered an impressive number of followers online, making it one of the.
Inspired by the recent question about xkcd styled plots i started looking at xkcd again and i came across a comic titled click and drag. It is a gagaday comic and generally does not have a continuing plot line or continuity though there are occasional short story arcs. As a big fan of xkcd, i have to share this with everyone else out there. No one likes my novelty ringtone, an audio recording of a phone on vibrate. Todays xkcd comic, unless someone can convince me otherwise, now holds the record for the biggest comic panel ever. Among the best ones, we find for a complete list go here. I dont know, but i spent about half and hour exploring it before my arm wore out. Discussion about the wiki itself happens at the community portal.
Also, anyone have any news on how to get the go big to go small hint. Click and drag today, xkcd featured a comic with a comically large image that is navigated by clicking and dragging. I think you can enable drag lock on snow leopard for the same effect. Anyway, really really good, and not only because of the temperature graph, but also because it puts historical events in relation with the temperature and helps explain quite a lot of things that happened in the past. Below are all the themes relevant to cover all the images found when zooming in. Jan 15, 2019 xkcd 1110 click and drag 6 star wars original trilogy 1 le citta invisibili invisible cities italo calvino 1 include characters. By 2008, xkcd was able to financially support munroe and radtke reasonably well through the sale of multiple thousand tshirts per month. Everything you need to know about xkcd comic click and. It an online comic strip drawn in stickfigure style the artwork can nonetheless be quite impressive, especially the expanded clickanddrag or micromacro zoom pieces.
This clickanddrag exploration reproduces the thrill of discovering new horizons, getting lost sometimes, finding unexpected things, seeing beauty, humor, desolation or happiness here and there. The image displayed at first turns out to be part of a huge landscape, filled with big or small things, humorous details, people here and. Scroll down and across to see the the full world for xkcd 1110. Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Im at a family reunion, where a youtubewatching party inspired todays comic. We have an explanation for all 2273 xkcd comics, and only 30 1% are incomplete. Whole time i was reading some posts from you guys and also reading some xkcd. The large image measures 165,888 pixels wide by 79,822 pixels high.
Charts and graphs computer science computer programming allegedly vulnerability bugs no response it works everything. This is reminiscent of the earlier interactive comic 1110. If youre new to wiki editing, see the explain xkcd. The mouse does move off the view port during drag, so its probably not that much more efficient. It utilizes alt text for each and every comic, which. Click and drag which features a vast landscape which can only be seen through the relatively tiny view of a fullwidth panel. Munroe states on the comics website that the name of the comic is not an initialism, but just a word with no phonetic pronunciation the subject matter of the comic varies from statements on life and love to. A few years ago, student rob matthews printed every wikipedia featured. Hacker news new past comments ask show jobs submit. The definitive collection of xkcd programmers comics.
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