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From: zoara on 19 May 2010 18:13 Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > In article <85ib64F85qU36(a)mid.individual.net>, > Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >There's an XKCD forum, but - really - you might just as well accept > > that > >you're never going to get all of 'em. > > There even a site that explains each one: http://xkcdexplained.com/ > Which, itself, has a wonderful sense of humour. "Note: Finding humor in word-play is an excellent way to feel superior to other people, without needing to think creatively or experience actual emotions." Brilliant stuff. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 19 May 2010 18:13 Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) gurgled happily, sounding much > like they were saying: > > >>There's an XKCD forum, but - really - you might just as well accept > > > that > >>you're never going to get all of 'em. > > > There even a site that explains each one: http://xkcdexplained.com/ > > "The Author is making a joke about how sometimes things in your fridge > > are very old." > > Oh. My. God. No. Really? I like that site's sense of humour. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Pd on 19 May 2010 18:43 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > Here are a few favourites of mine: > http://xkcd.com/162/ That's the one that first turned me on to xkcd. > http://xkcd.com/137/ And that should be a poster on every student's bedroom wall. -- Pd
From: Pd on 19 May 2010 18:53 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > I just love the way he managed to put all of the most delighted insights > you can get when programming (I mean, how poetic is "The patterns and > metapatterns danced. Syntax faded, and I swam in the purity of > quantified conception. Of ideas manifest."?) into that and then made all > of this fade behind the curel and naked "We hacked most of it together > in Perl". How poetic? Perfectly. -- Pd
From: Ian Piper on 20 May 2010 17:16
On 2010-05-19 10:19:22 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> said: > On 2010-05-19, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> It is. > > Not quite a classic (as "someone is -wrong- on the Internet!" is) but still > pretty good. > > Jim And look what the people with an irony bypass make of it... http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005424.html Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --� |