Comments on: Web Comics Have Got Our Back http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:09:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sili http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-43974 Sili Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:02:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/#comment-43974 Perhaps someone here might like <a href="http://www.nukees.com/" rel="nofollow">Nukees</a> even if it does feature <em>engineers</em>. <a href="http://www.nukees.com/d/20080901.html" rel="nofollow">Feel free to guess what the latest arc is spoofing</a>. It's been going for a while, so if you have a week, start at the beginning and learn how the giant robotic ant, the artificial intelligence posing as a tyrranosaur, the goddess Ma'at and the Finnish folk hero Väinämöinen fit together. (On the way you'll find Robin Hood and the Inferno retold as well.) Perhaps someone here might like Nukees even if it does feature engineers.

Feel free to guess what the latest arc is spoofing.

It’s been going for a while, so if you have a week, start at the beginning and learn how the giant robotic ant, the artificial intelligence posing as a tyrranosaur, the goddess Ma’at and the Finnish folk hero Väinämöinen fit together.

(On the way you’ll find Robin Hood and the Inferno retold as well.)

]]> By: Fish cosmology « Big Bang http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-43973 Fish cosmology « Big Bang Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:20:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/#comment-43973 [...] Cosmic Variance is Comics Variance today. [...] [...] Cosmic Variance is Comics Variance today. [...]

]]> By: Freiddie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-43972 Freiddie Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:36:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/#comment-43972 I don't think xkcd should be spelled like that "Xkcd". @greg: yep, today's xkcd "Depth" is really cool, just like "Height". I don’t think xkcd should be spelled like that “Xkcd”.

@greg: yep, today’s xkcd “Depth” is really cool, just like “Height”.

]]> By: greg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-43971 greg Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:46:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/10/06/web-comics/#comment-43971 <a href="http://xkcd.com/485/" rel="nofollow">Today's xkcd</a> is a height picture as well. Featuring Brian Greene! Today’s xkcd is a height picture as well. Featuring Brian Greene!

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