{"id":1091,"date":"2012-07-23T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2012-07-23T19:36:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:36:33","slug":"xkcd-a-very-funny-web-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/xkcd-a-very-funny-web-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"xkcd: A very funny web comic"},"content":{"rendered":"

xkcd is a comic strip on the web I just discovered (although there’s some chance I discovered it in the past and then forgot about it) — it’s done by Randall Munroe. Many comics are based on obscure bits of math or science. It’s sometimes not funny but it’s often very funny.<\/p>\n

xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s one that references the singularity:<\/p>\n

Server Problem<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s one that I thought was particularly clever:<\/p>\n

Pressures<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes he creates huge charts or diagrams that show things to scale. Here’s one (just click on it to get a larger view):<\/p>\n

Lakes and Oceans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

xkcd is a comic strip on the web I just discovered (although there’s some chance I discovered it in the past and then forgot about it) — it’s done by Randall Munroe. Many comics are based on obscure bits of math or science. It’s sometimes not funny but it’s often very funny. xkcd: A webcomic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-comic-strips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}