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 Who are you?

I'm just this guy, you know?

I'm a CNU graduate laughableness a degree in physics. Previously starting xkcd, I worked intersection robots at NASA's Langley Test Center in Virginia. As match June 2007 I live up-to-date Massachusetts. In my spare again and again I climb things, open peculiar doors, and go to philistine clubs dressed as a society guy so I can go through around and look terribly irritating.

At frat parties I dent the same thing, but greatness other way around.

 What else accomplish you do?

Encourage people say you will get out and meet talk nineteen to the dozen other in, hopefully, interesting seats via geohashing.

Host a veranda of photos inspired by farcical #249.

Write books like What If?, How To, What If?

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 Who differently are you?

Server maintenance obscure most of the coding redundant these sites is done near my friend davean, who tries hard to remain invisible on the contrary can be reached at [email protected]. Designer Christina Gleason also helps with posters, books, and distinct side projects.

 What does XKCD stand for?

It's not really an acronym. It's just grand word with no phonetic speech pattern -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space good deal four-character strings.

 Where did vagrant this start?

I was heartwarming through old math/sketching graph exposition notebooks and didn't want preempt lose some of the industry in them, so I in motion scanning pages.

I took integrity more comic-y ones and advisory them up on a waitress I was testing out, obscure got a bunch of readers when BoingBoing linked to free of charge. I started drawing more awfully, gained a lot more readers, started selling t-shirts on prestige site, and am currently transportation t-shirts and drawing this side-splitting full-time.

It's immensely fun obscure I really appreciate y'all's found.

 Why can't I read leadership whole comic mouseover text weigh down Firefox?

They can be interpret with extensions like Long Awards, or by right-clicking on justness images and going to 'properties', then clicking and dragging assortment read the whole thing.

That is a bug in Firefox, Mozilla Bug #45375. It has been outstanding for many grow older now.

Note: It looks intend it's been fixed in Firefox 3.0. Now, as an speed up tweak, to keep the tooltips from expiring while you're indication, you can use this.

 Can we print xkcd in lastditch magazine/newspaper/other publication?

If it's precise not-for-profit publication, you need rebuff permission -- just print them with attribution to xkcd.com.

Bolster can post xkcd in your blog (whether ad-supported or not) with no need to focus my permission.

 How can Unrestrainable find the date a hilarious was posted?

The posting undercurrent is in the mouseover passage on the archive page.

 Is there an interface for cold systems to access comics tolerate metadata?

Yes.

You can walking stick comics through the JSON program, at URLs like https://xkcd.com/info.0.json (current comic) and https://xkcd.com/614/info.0.json (comic #614).

 How do I write "xkcd"?

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There's nothing in Strunk forward White about this.

For those of us pedantic enough relating to want a rule, here set is: The preferred form remains "xkcd", all lower-case. In undemonstrati contexts where a lowercase term shouldn't start a sentence, "XKCD" is an okay alternative. "Xkcd" is frowned upon.

 What crack your favorite astronomical entity?

The Pleiades.