Well, the first bit, anyway.
I don't think it's a conscious pursuit of intellectual stimulation so much as it is a simple geek impulse to collect and play with data. Joel, if you look at his blog, you'll see other times when he's done this, as with a color naming project, which was actually very fascinating. He just finds it neat. It's okay if that's not what you want in your web comic, but I don't think it's new at all. I could just as easily have seen Randall making a comic like this at the very beginning of xkcd (wasn't the first version based on data, too?), and the store's been around for a while now.
I'm totally buying that map for my boyfriend's office, by the way...
I don't think it's a conscious pursuit of intellectual stimulation so much as it is a simple geek impulse to collect and play with data. Joel, if you look at his blog, you'll see other times when he's done this, as with a color naming project, which was actually very fascinating. He just finds it neat. It's okay if that's not what you want in your web comic, but I don't think it's new at all. I could just as easily have seen Randall making a comic like this at the very beginning of xkcd (wasn't the first version based on data, too?), and the store's been around for a while now.
I'm totally buying that map for my boyfriend's office, by the way...
Well, it does kinda go with the territory.
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Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
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LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
I Think xkcd May Just Have Jumped the Shark.
07/10/2010 03:40:05 PM
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Saying that "things have jumped the shark" has jumped the shark
07/10/2010 04:01:49 PM
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"jumped" past tense.
07/10/2010 04:05:56 PM
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If you are seriously going to attempt to make a discussion out of it, I think you don't know what
07/10/2010 04:50:27 PM
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Nah. It's an update to an extremely popular comic. The internet's changed, so it's reasonable.
07/10/2010 04:43:01 PM
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Meh.
08/10/2010 01:38:06 PM
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How old are your atlases?
08/10/2010 04:22:23 PM
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xkcd is a tool now?
08/10/2010 04:23:58 PM
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XKCD jumped the shark a long time ago.
07/10/2010 06:40:54 PM
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You can't recover from jumping the shark. That's what it means, it's the beginning of the end. *NM*
07/10/2010 07:04:55 PM
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I've found about 3 xkcd's mildly humorous...
07/10/2010 06:43:56 PM
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agreed
07/10/2010 08:46:03 PM
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Because Dinosaur Comics is unqualifiedly hilarious. My God, woman! *NM*
07/10/2010 11:26:56 PM
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Randall does research for his comics all the time.
07/10/2010 10:55:28 PM
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It's true.
08/10/2010 01:23:07 AM
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The first version was based on guesses where he couldn't find official info *NM*
08/10/2010 06:04:45 AM
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And that's cool, it's just not necessarily FUNNY.
08/10/2010 02:36:57 PM
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I guess I like neat comics about as well as LOL comics.
08/10/2010 07:05:58 PM
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Ultimately, I do, too, I'm just not sure "comic" is the right word.
08/10/2010 07:59:39 PM
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Actually sad to see that Gaia Online didn't make it...
08/10/2010 03:33:26 AM
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'SOK, I think I still have a higher "Oops quotient" for this thread.
08/10/2010 02:40:16 PM
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I like it
08/10/2010 05:25:23 PM
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SEE?! This is what I was talking about in my other response to you.
08/10/2010 05:42:51 PM
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