xkcd with captions

I am a fan of Randall Munroe's xkcd comic. I read it on a regular basis and enjoy the mouseover texts that come with the comics, but those can't easily be read on mobile devices. So this website has an RSS feed which pulls out the text and places it under the image. The feed links back to xkcd.com. Enjoy. This page only shows the latest entries.

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.

'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.

Installation

Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

Carbon Dating

This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.

Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.