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. 😂 Bad Map Projection: South America →
Tag Archives: xkcd
Software Updates
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 […]
API
(Source: xkcd #1481)
Tasks
In Computer Science, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible (src)
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
(Source: xkcd #1319)
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! Adobe Crossword → Inspired upon XKCD […]
Stacksort
Stacksort: a sort that searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them until it returns the correct answer. Stacksort → @see XKCD’s Ineffective Sorts to get this one 😉
There’s an App for that!
Spot on. (source)