Today's XKCD: "Starwatching"

Boing Boing and I get another nice nod today in XKCD, Randall Munroe's fantastic geeky comic. I'm really looking forward to meeting Randall in person for the first time at 3PiCon in Massachusetts this summer where we'll both be guests of honor. Link (Thanks to everyone who suggested this!)

[#1 posted by LaHaine , May 26, 2008 6:01 AM]

As always with xkcd, don't forget to read the alt text (just hover your mouse over the image).

[#2 posted by ridestowe , May 26, 2008 6:56 AM]

hah thats awesome! xkcd never disappoints ;)

and thanks for the tip lahaine, i've been reading xkcd for almost a year now and didnt know about the mouse hovering trick!

[#3 posted by Joel Johnson , May 26, 2008 7:21 AM]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26link.html

Profile today of XKCD in the Times.

[#4 posted by Thad E Ginataom , May 26, 2008 8:28 AM]

Ridestowe: now you get to go over the whole xkcd archive and enjoy it all over again! Hint: Firefox truncates those mouseover texts, there's an addin that prevents it doing that. Its mentioned somewhere on the xkcd site.

Joel: many thanks for the NYTimes article link.

BoinbBoing: Too many thanks for introducing me to xkcd, now a three-times-a-week part of my life.

Oh, and xkcd: Thanks for making me feel that I too can be a superhero --- because I know regular expressions!

[#5 posted by ethan , May 26, 2008 9:05 AM]

Judging from the like two seconds that I talked to him at the meetup in Boston, Randall's wicked nice. And kind of really cute. He signed my wallet and I fainted.

[#6 posted by Vanwall , May 26, 2008 10:40 AM]

xkcd and boingboing are a dangerous mix - at one point while giving my son a ride home, we had a serious discussion about picking up a cape and goggles and dropping them off at Mysterious Galaxy for Cory Doctorow's appearance there that day. Missed that window of op - no capes to be found on short notice. Damn. Have to plan ahead better, I guess, but it was a spur-of-the-moment thingie.

[#7 posted by Evil Jim , May 26, 2008 12:31 PM]

I groaned when I first saw this because I knew it would feature on BoingBoing withing five minutes.

[#8 posted by cha0tic , May 27, 2008 5:15 AM]

Dr McNinja does the Alt text thing as well.

[#9 posted by bursilak , May 27, 2008 6:52 AM]

OK seriously, does anyone know how we can nominate Randall for a Nobel Literature Prize?

[#10 posted by historyman68 , May 27, 2008 9:38 AM]

while we're on topic, Dinosaur Comics (qwantz.com), Overcompensating (overcompensating.com), Achewood (achewood.com) all use alt text too. I'm not Firefox -savvy enough to do those plugins, so I usually just open them up in Safari.