xkcd – Ewan Spence

XKCD’s Big Data Survey

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Ewan Spence

XKCD is running a survey of pointless questions to generate a big data set. That data set will go public when it is all over and then Randall Munroe is hoping that creative people will be able to do interesting things with the anonymized (but public) data. For example… … Fill this text box with gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys …�When you think about stuff on the internet, where do you picture it being physically located? Even if you know it’s not really how things work, is there a place you imagine websites and social media posts sitting before

One surprise for every day of the year

Posted on December 17, 2014December 17, 2014 by Ewan Spence

XKCD once joked about setting up a script to buy a $1 + free postage item from the internet and run it once a day for a year. Now�Bobcat In A Box has done that in real life. Can we have a �1 free UK shipping next?

XKCD and the X-15 Astronauts

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Ewan Spence

There are moments when you can look at an XKCD cartoon and now exactly what the mouseover text is hidden. ‘Astronaut Vandalism‘ was one of those moments, although I was half-expecting the change from 62 to 50 to be done not be ‘retired USAF pilots’, but by Joe Engle, the last of the eight X-15 astronauts still alive.