[Editor's note: Science comic geek alert. Thanks Martin and Jo!]
Republished from XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
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Gravity Wells (xkcd)
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Analyze this, Tufte! Movie Narrative Charts (XKCD comic)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
[Editor's note: Thanks Jo!]
Republished from XKCD.
These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical groupings of the lines indicates which characters are together at a given time. On the LoTRs up and down roughly correspond to northwest and southeast.
Comic: Converting to Metric (XKCD)
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009[Editor's note: Helpful hints on how to go metric if you never had a science class in the US since the 1970s. I don't yet dream in metric but I ain't afraid of it 
Thanks Jo!]
Republished from XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
The key to converting to metric is establishing new reference points. When you hear “26° C,” instead of thinking “that’s 79° F” you should think, “That’s warmer than a house but cool for swimming.” Here are some helpful tables of reference points:
Going West (Comic from XKCD)
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Girl: I’m Sorry. The Google Maps team hired me.
Boy: But I can’t move to California!
Girl: Then I guess this is the end.
Boy: It can’t be! Listen… When I look deep into your eyes, I see a future for us.
Girl: Look deeper.
Boy: “We’re sorry but we don’t have imagery at this zoom level”? They… they have you already.
Republished from XKCD. A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Thanks Jo!