The Perils of Wikipedia & More @ xkcd.com

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007, 5:52 pmRoys

The picture below sums up why using Wikipedia as your default search engine is a Bad Idea™ ;p


© Randall Munroe

Taken from one of Randall Munroe’s XKCD webcomics titled The Problem With Wikipedia.

Randall Munroe updates his webcomic at xkcd.com every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Stick figures explain succinctly his observations about technology, mathematics, gaming and life in general.

Another of my favourites - Exercise (below)


© Randall Munroe

You can view the rest (total 246) at the xkcd archives. Here’s seven more of my favourites:
Keyboards are disgusting
The Difference
Chess Enlightment
Regular Expressions
Movie Seating
Open Source
Reload

Found out about XKCD from the comments left at Coding Horror’s post on Hans Bjordahl’s Bug Bash. More stick figure fun from The Bitter Stickgirl and Coming Toon.

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7 comments:

  1. gnome, Wednesday, April 11th, 2007, 6:02 am

    Hilarious!

     
  2. The Download Munkey, Wednesday, April 11th, 2007, 7:23 pm

    Yep, really boggles the mind what other treasures lie undiscovered on the .NET

     
  3. gnome, Friday, April 13th, 2007, 7:27 am

    Indeed, indeed. And hopefully you’ll unearth them…

     
  4. Andy, Thursday, January 3rd, 2008, 12:54 pm

    Egads, I’m responding to a post 9 months old?! Isn’t that bad etiquette? :)

    One of my favorites from xkcd was this one: http://xkcd.com/314/ ‘Dating Pools’.

     
  5. Roys, Thursday, January 3rd, 2008, 5:25 pm

    Now that you reminded me, I haven’t been to XKCD for quite a while. Better subscribe to RSS lest I forget again :P

     
  6. e, Saturday, April 5th, 2008, 2:22 am

    .NET is a Microsoft software development framework. Stuff on the Internet is just “on the net” or “on the Net”.

     
  7. Roys, Sunday, April 6th, 2008, 1:47 am

    Yea, I know .. I’m been doing too much C# programming at work for the last three years - must have rubbed off on me :(

     

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