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To be honest, its still true today. Link
So true. Wisdom from xkcd.
xkcd got a write-up in the NY Times:
The Internet has also created a bond between Mr. Munroe and his readers that is exceptional. They re-enact in real life the odd ideas he puts forward in his strip. A case in point was the strip called “Dream Girl.” It recounted a dream in which a girl (stick figure with flowing hair) recites a bunch of numbers into the narrator’s ear.
“The xkcd person is the kind of person who would take that and run with it,” he said. The numbers were coordinates and a date months in the future.
The strip’s narrator says he went there and no one came. “It turns out that wanting something doesn’t make it real,” the strip concludes.
But on that day in real life, hundreds of fans met in a park in Cambridge.
And then they all ordered sandwiches.
I think the author over-simplifies xkcd’s audience as mostly tech or IT people when its really probably broader then that. Young, internet-savvy people with little to no programming skills can and do love the strip, myself among them.
Apparently this xkcd has caused some debate:
Holy crap. This strip’s been up for 800 seconds and it’s already the most controversial thing I’ve ever written, beating out comics about cunnilingus, the Obama endorsement, and my making 4chan tiny on the map of the internet. It turns out everyone and their mother has a fruit opinion, and every one of those opinions is now in my inbox.
Just remember to keep some perspective. If you think watermelon is delicious, and I think it’s only so-so, the important thing is that we each find something we like. Who’s to say whose taste is right?
I am. You are wrong; watermelon is overrated.
Also, I have never liked cantaloupe. It brings down otherwise tasty fruit salads. There, I said it.
For the record, watermelon and cantaloupe are both delicious, though watermelon significantly more so.
I love xkcd.
God I love xkcd.
