“Your grades have been stored on our department server and will be submitted tomorrow” — Brilliant! 😅
Dependency
Bad Map Projection: South America
This XKCD comic is right up my alley:
The projection does a good job preserving both distance and azimuth, at the cost of really exaggerating how many South Americas there are.
😂
Software Updates
Split emoji text effect with CSS
Thanks to some absolute positioning, hue-rotation, and even some clipping you can create nice split emoji:
I especially like the experiments near the lower part of the demo, where one emoji is used as a modifier for the other (e.g. the 🎩 is placed on top of 😁, yielding a new emoji). They remind me of this ingenious XKCD Comic on “the vomiting emoji” (U+1F92E):
💥 Did you know you can also create Emoji Silhouettes and/or Outlines? And did you know that some emoji wrap lines, and some don’t?
API
Tasks
In Computer Science, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible
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Linkbait Titles
As per true xkcd style, the real message is hidden in the title attribute of the image:
We’re firing you, but the online headline-writing division wants to hire you.
Automation
Adobe Crossword
A crossword based on the Adobe password leak. The answers to the crossword are chosen from the 1000 most used passwords for Adobe user accounts from the recent password leak. The clues are up to 50 of the most commonly used hints for each of the passwords.
Hilarious stuff!
Inspired upon XKCD #1286: Encryptic