A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Scene: Drawing of a stick figure touching a sign. The sign reads “Third Floor Office” with Braille underneath.

Caption: I learned to read Braille a while back, and I’ve noticed that the messages on signs don’t always match the regular text.

Stick Figure’s thought bubble: S-i-g-h-t-e-d-P-e-o-p-l-e-S-u-c-k … Hey!
Hover text: The only big difference I’ve seen is in colors.  Where the regular text reads ‘press red button’, the Braille reads ‘press two-inch button.’

A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Scene: Two stick figures stand facing each other. The one on the left has arms widespread and the one on the right has one hand lifted.

Person One: 9/11 was an inside job! Jet fuel can’t burn hot enough to melt steel!

Person Two: Well, remember—jet fuel wasn’t the only thing on those planes. They would’ve also carried tanks full of the mind-control agents airliners use to make chemtrails. Who knows what temperature that stuff burns at!

Person One: Whoa—Good point!

Caption: My hobby: Playing conspiracy theories off against each other.

Hover text: The “controlled demoliton” theory was concocted by the government to distract us. “9/11 was an inside job” was an inside job!

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.

A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Scene: Two stick figures stand facing each other. The left stick figure has one foot on a small brown pile of rock and earth and holds a red and yellow flame in the left hand and a wave of blue water in the right. Gray lines indicating wind or air flow past the figure’s waist.  A blue arrow tattoo runs over the top of the figure’s head, stopping with the point in the center of his forehead. The stick figure on the right has a long white beard and a fringe of white hair at the back of his head.

Person One: “I am the Avatar, master of all four elements!”

Person Two: “Really? I am Mendeleev, master of all 118+.” (Swoosh sound effect) “That was polonium-bending.–You probably didn’t feel anything, but the symptoms of radiation poisoning will set in shortly.”

Hover text: Of all the nations, the armies of the ununoctium-benders are probably the least intimidating. The xenon-benders come close, but their flickery signs are at least effective for propaganda.

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.

A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Panel One: Drawing of a stick figure wearing a back pack and holding up a piece of paper with the number 117. In front of the stick figure is a door marked with the number 117.

Panel Two: Drawing of a dorm room. Against the right wall is a long, bare-mattressed bed with an empty desk at the foot. Against the left wall is a bed with rumpled bedclothes and pillow. Clothing and books litter the floor next to it.  A different stick figure wearing glasses is seated at a desk at the foot of the left bed, looking at a computer screen. On the far wall is the famous “Dark Side of the Moon” Pink Floyd poster–solid black background with a triangular prism about a third of the way down from the top. A single thin beam of light comes up at a slight angle from the left edge of the poster, enters the prism and is refracted into a rainbow ray of light, widening slightly as it gently angles downward to the right edge of the poster.

Panel Three: The first stick figure is standing in the open doorway, the piece of paper still in one hand, the other up to his face as if thinking.

Panel Four: The empty doorway.

Panel Five: The first stick figure enters through the doorway, carrying a large black poster.

Panel Six: The first stick figure has begun setting up a laptop on the desk on the right side of the room. Now on the wall next to the first poster is another copy of the same poster, but upside down so that the rainbow ray from the first poster is aligned with the rainbow ray in the second. A lens has been added on the left edge of the second poster that refocuses the rainbow ray back into the prism in the second poster.

Hover text: I was going to record an album with that cover under the name “PINK FTFY”, so it’d come after them on the store CD rack. But at this point music stores are just rooms where CDs are set out to age before they’re thrown away, so probably nobody would see it.

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.

A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Scene: Simple graph. Y axis is labeled “General satisfaction with how my life is going.” The X axis is labeled “Time since I last had to open xorg.conf.”  The graph line starts at 0 and rises steadily, with a slight curvature, to the right.

Hover text: Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years–which means X is overdue.

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.

A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Caption above Panel One: The Fermi Paradox: Planets are so common that life should be, too. So where is it?

Panel One:  Drawing of a stick figure running, with a small puff of smoke behind to indicate speed. The stick figure’s arms and legs have extra flaps of fabric.

Panel Two: Same stick figure, still running.

Caption: Well, now we know. It’s not that life inevitably destroys itself with war.

Caption above Panel Three: It’s just that it takes longer to develop space colonization

Panel Three: The stick figure leaps off a high cliff.

Caption below Panel Three: Than it does to invent an activity more fun than survival.

Panel Four: A Youtube-like video shows the stick figure from before hurtling downwards, screaming “Wheeeee!” with arms and legs widespread. The fabric flaps are revealed to be bat-like wings. Unseen observers are saying “Holy crap!” and “I don’t care how dangerous it is. I have to try it!”

Hover text: And no avian society ever develops space travel because it’s impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.

A web comic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language.

Scene: Black and white pastoral scene. Across the bottom of the scene is a brick path. Two stick figures, one sitting, one standing, are at the edge of the path. They are looking at a small memorial at the end of a short path made by round stepping stones. The stones lead up to and make a ring around the monument, which is reminiscent of the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, except that instead of a flame, there is a full-color spinning rainbow beachball.

Hover text: There’s always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return.

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.

A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Panel One: Drawing of a stick figure seated before a desk with a computer monitor. A stick figure with dark hair is standing behind the seated figure, resting a hand on the chair back.

Person One: “What hidden arrow?”

Person Two: “I thought everyone knew about it. Pull up the FedEx logo.”

Second Panel: A closer view of the same scene.

Person One: “Where is it?”

Person Two: “Right there. Look at the white space.”

Person One: “I don’t see it.”

Third Panel: A distorted view of the purple and orange FedEx logo. The white space between the capital F and the lower case d and above the e forms a tank, the white space from the interiors of the e and d form a ball player with a 24 on the back of his uniform reaching out to catch a ball. A smiling, mustached man’s face wearing a brimmed hat and facing left is formed by the white space between the capital E and the lower case X.

Person One: “All I see is Guy Fawkes watching Willie Mays catch a fly ball while an armored assault vehicle rolls by.”

Person Two: “…You either need more medication or less. Not sure which.”

Hover text: Once you see it, you can’t help seeing it every time. Until your body finishes metabolizing the mushrooms.

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.

A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Panel One: Drawing of three stick figures caroling. They are wearing knit caps with tassels and holding sheet music. The one on the left is smaller than the other two.

“Good King Wenceslas looked out on the—”

Panel Two: Drawing of a stick figure wearing a black hat, leaning out of an upper story window.

“King Wenceslas massacred my people.”

Panel Three: The three stick figures have stopped caroling. The smallest one looks up at the other two.

Hover text: For a thousand generations we vowed never to forget how his soldiers feasted on our brother Stephen.

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget.