Check the help pages on to learn how to get it to work. **Warning** If you use the Firefox browser the hover texts may not appear in full. It may hold insight to Munroe’s design or else further the joke, but its almost always worth it. The exotic is made mundane, the monotonous made spontaneous, and its all with freaking stick figures! He really is a geek I love!įor new visitors to, be sure to hover over the comics for an extra smidge of humor and the occasional explanation. I am constantly astounded by the things that float around in Munroe’s brain. And it never fails I learn something new. Of course then I spend a good hour or two Googling just so I could figure out the day’s xkcd comic. Some will make you think, some will puzzle you, and I’ll freely admit that a number of them go straight over my head. Munroe also ventures into pop culture, romance, politics (rarely), and the introspective existentialism with varying degrees of seriousness. Munroe takes high brow comedy to an entirely new level. But he covers a broad range of very geek topics from computer programming to relationships to etymology to mathematics.

He has a degree in physics and wit so sharp he could take on a ninja. Randall has worked for NASA making robots. It was all in the best of intentions, and I promise, I’m done. I found a bit on his website as well as on from their interview. Should Randall actually read this, I apologize for the brief stint of stalking I had to venture through to write this article. The following information I admit to stealing off the web. He has turned his hobby into a real, grown-up, actually pays the bills job. A few scans, a test server, and a t-shirt or two later, Randall Munroe has achieved what we geeks all aspire to. xkcd began as notebook doodles he didn’t want to lose to the ravages of time. Randall Munroe has used simple stick figures to create one of the wittiest comic sites available. As if we didn’t have enough random sites cluttering our bookmark bars, I submit another one for your reading intrigue.

Xkcd by randall munroe