Keynote

Keynote Mentions of DRM and Cory Doctorow create a feeling of relatability and relatively exclusive knowledge. The mention of Steve Jobs induces uncontrollably giddy joy, since he is a rich celebrity. But not the most obvious type of rich celebrity.

Sandwich

Sandwich An enduring classic. This one makes Unix system administrators LOL and forward it to Unix system administrators. The reason is the usual: they are among the few who know the sudo command, so the cartoon functions as a mention or shoutout to their much-ignored community, which is funny. As is the case with many […]

MicroSD

MicroSD Libraries are sexy. It is 2010 of the CE, and America is up to here in sexy things. The strangest among those would have to be: math, science, books, computers, “ideas”, puzzles, dictionaries, big words, lab equipment, and so forth. There is now no dearth of people who feel reverent, intimidated, and … faintly […]

Voynich Manuscript

Voynich Manuscript There is a theory that says that the Venus of Willendorf, for instance, was “porn”. Quite a number of sexy-geeks find this kind of thing unfailingly funny, since it is not a mainstream theory and surely needs a zany imagination to conceive. To productize this idea to xkcd standards, several obscure references are […]

Forks and Spoons

Forks and Spoons Breeding creates hitherto unknown organisms, which bring hitherto unknown horrors. This is blended with the second principle of horror: the inanimate, animated. The effort to name the “binary” fractions on the fork-spoon spectrum seems to have been abandoned. Here is one way that is sufficiently heavy with geek-fu: insert sequences of i […]