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1110: Click and Drag
|Click and Drag
Title text: Click and drag.
This comic is a take on how vast and rich the world is, and on the thrill of exploring it. The world can be described as sad, as well as it can be described as wonderful, even if this seems a bit contradictory, just because there are so many different things happening in it.
Cueball comments about this, and the title text invites the reader to, with his mouse, click and drag the inside of the last panel, and by dragging and dragging, explore what is hidden outside that panel. The image displayed at first turns out to be part of a huge landscape, filled with big or small things, humorous details, people here and there, cave mazes, things floating in the air, jokes and references, unexpected things, relaxing views, etc. (The above image is not functional; you will have to visit the original comic.)
The fact that we only see a small part of the landscape at once refers to the idea that we cannot in real life comprehend the whole world altogether, but only what is around us and/or in the range of our understanding at the time. And the click-and-drag process, in which it is impossible to go as fast as we would want to, also draws a parallel with the fact that exploration is always done gradually, step by step, and trying something (i.e. here dragging in a certain direction) is always done costly. In the end, all this makes that this click-and-drag exploration reproduces pretty well the thrill of discovering new horizons, getting lost sometimes, finding unexpected things, seeing beauty, humor, desolation or happiness here and there... which can easily captivate an xkcd reader for a looong time (and as such qualifies as nerd sniping).
Warning: there are cheating possibilities, people have implemented ways to explore that world more easily, but the best way to enjoy this comic is probably to play the game, explore the comic's world the way you're supposed to, get lost in the caves or in the sky, be startled by unexpected things or happy when finding some people after lengthy click-and-dragging through a repetitive landscape... So if you didn't do that already, reading any below will spoil you from truly enjoying the comic.
This transcript will only cover the first 3 panels.
- Cueball [narration]: From the stories
- Cueball [narration]: I expected the world to be sad
- [Cueball is floating by holding onto a balloon with one hand.]
- Cueball [narration]: And it was
- Cueball [narration]: And I expected it to be wonderful.
- [Cueball has grabbed hold of the balloon with both hands.]
- [The wind picks up and blows Cueball eastward.]
- Cueball [narration]: It was.
- [Full width panel, initial view of the world. Part of tile 1n1e.]
- Cueball [narration]: I just didn't expect it to be so BIG.
- [Scene opens up. You see Cueball is about a tree's-height from the ground. To the left there is a tall tree with no leaves on it and a broken limb.]
List of details and references
| This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: 1110: Click and Drag
If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks.
The 225 existing tiles are sorted by columns from West to East and from North to South in each column.
|Grid coords
|Explanation and Transcript
|1 North, 33 West
|Cueball and Megan reach the western edge of the image and decide to live there.
|1 North, 32 West
|Just terrain, no activity
|1 North, 31 West
|Just terrain, no activity
|1 North, 30 West
|Just terrain, no activity
|1 North, 29 West
|Just terrain, no activity
|1 North, 28 West
|Just terrain, no activity
|1 North, 27 West
|Velociraptors in the high grass.
|1 North, 26 West
|1 North, 25 West
|A large radio telescope with a female listening for a signal. Possibly a reference to the movie Contact.
|1 North, 24 West
|1 North, 23 West
|2 North, 22 West
|The top of a large Saturn V rocket (the base is in 1 North, 22 West).
|1 North, 22 West
|The base of the Saturn V rocket on a launchpad.
|1 North, 21 West
|Cueball asks Jesus why his footprints look like tire trakcs. This is a reference to the inspirational text Footprints as well as a reference to the Transformers.
|1 North, 20 West
|1 North, 19 West
|1 North, 18 West
|1 North, 17 West
|The scruffy character beneath the palm tree might be a reference to Desert Island Discs, a BBC radio program in which a celebrity chooses the records they would like to be stranded with if castaway. The hatch is a reference to Lost in which the passengers on board a flight over the Pacific Ocean find themselves stranded on a strange island. Their first clue that they stumbled on something out-of-the-ordinary is the hatch.
|1 South, 17 West
|A miner. The sliding stone walls behind him (to keep back the water if he digs too far) are a reference to Ted Chiang's "Tower of Babylon" .
|2 South, 17 West
|3 South, 17 West
|A man saying "Lemonade? Aww, OK." three times as other people fall by him
|4 South, 17 West
|5 South, 17 West
|6 South, 17 West
|7 South, 17 West
|8 South, 17 West
|An X-Wing fighter from Star Wars
|9 South, 17 West
|10 South, 17 West
|11 South, 17 West
|12 South, 17 West
|Cueball and Megan looking up from the bottom of the shaft.
|1 North, 16 West
|12 South, 16 West
|1 North, 15 West
|12 South, 15 West
|1 North, 14 West
|The eastern shore of the body of water. Some benches beneath some trees. White Hat asks Cueball if he ever turns off his phone to be alone with his thoughts, which Cueball has and found terrifying.
|12 South, 14 West
|1 North, 13 West
|A rocky hill with a lighthouse. Megan and Ponytail sit atop the hill. A half-buried Statue of Liberty is on the other side in reference to Planet of Apes with Cueball's "You Maniacs!" line parodying the final line from the film. Another western shore makes this a very small landmass.
|12 South, 13 West
|Someone in a pirate hat saying "Becky?". He is carrying either a grappling hook or the end of a rope. Probably a reference to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the title character rescues his sweetheart, Becky Thatcher, from a cave.
|1 North, 12 West
|12 South, 12 West
|11 North, 11 West
|An empty white tile with symetric coordinates (11 North, 11 West).
|1 North, 11 West
|Water. A blindfolded character playing Marco Polo alone.
|11 South, 11 West
|A black tile with symetric coordinates (11 South, 11 West).
Note, that this PNG file contains an ICC section which means that the blackness in this image is properly color-corrected.
|12 South, 11 West
|1 North, 10 West
|12 South, 10 West
|1 North, 9 West
|Possibly a reference to the Principality of Sealand or to the concept of a micronation in general, List of micronations. Alternative theory: news recently involving some special interest groups on the internet looking to buy an island together.
|2 South, 9 West
|Jellyfish playing some sort of console game.
|12 South, 9 West
|1 North, 8 West
|A three-masted sailing ship with a reference to Monty Python? One character swings from the rigging lines. One character laughs at the name poop deck. One character is climbing the rigging and is apparently Elizabeth Warren. There appears to be a vintage pirate onboard shouting "Avast!" (meaning stop), but no one is apparently listening. Possibly a reference to comic being released on International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
|12 South, 8 West
|13 South, 8 West
|7 North, 7 West
|1 North, 7 West
|13 South, 7 West
|14 South, 7 West
|1 North, 6 West
|1 South, 6 West
|13 South, 6 West
|14 South, 6 West
|6 North, 5 West
|Red spiders from earlier comics falling from the sky
|1 North, 5 West
|Several buoys and a small sailboat. "I'm on a Boat" is a single from The Lonely Island's debut album Incredibad.
|14 South, 5 West
|2 North, 4 West
|1 North, 4 West
|The coast of the body of water at a beach with some sea birds and beachgoers.
|14 South, 4 West
|3 North, 3 West
|2 North, 3 West
|An empty white tile.
|1 North, 3 West
|The west wall of a large building which stair-cases narrower as it rises.
|14 South, 3 West
|8 North, 2 West
|This seems to be the peak of the Burj Khalifa to which 6 North, 27 East refers.
|7 North, 2 West
|6 North, 2 West
|Black Hat is seen in the picture with a gatling gun, probably the Imperial cannons referred in 8 North, 6 East.
|5 North, 2 West
|A construction crane lifting another, smaller, construction crane. Possibly a reference to the "Truck Truck Truck" gag from the Simpsons. Also, self-erecting tower cranes do usually not lift crawler cranes
|4 North, 2 West
|3 North, 2 West
|2 North, 2 West
|1 North, 2 West
|The bulk of the base of the building with one terrace visible on either side. Megan says "I came here to chew bubblegum... And I'm all out of bubblegum" is a reference to the movie They Live in which the character Nada famously says "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum". That line is also used in the game Duke Nukem 3D by Duke himself, when Shrapnel City (Episode 3) starts. Also, Cueball says "That's a shame" a line popularised by Jerry in the sitcom Seinfeld. Pool line is a reference to "pool on the roof" prank from the movie Hackers.
|14 South, 2 West
|8 North, 1 West
|An empty white tile.
|5 North, 1 West
|The tail of the crawler crane lifted at 5 North, 2 West.
|2 North, 1 West
|An empty white tile.
|1 North, 1 West
|The western wall at the base of a large building including its portico, a remote control rocket-powered bicycle attempting to launch from the first terrace, a balcony on the second terrace and a satellite dish and other exhausts on the third. Trees with squirrels stand in front of the building leading to a parking lot with cars and one Weinermobile
|14 South, 1 West
|15 South, 1 West
|Possible statement about the ubiquity of Facebook and Twitter (that even people living in caves are aware of those services). It may also be an allusion to how desperately people seek attention through these media - a viewer could expect the characters to cry for help in order to save their lives; while they do take an appropriately desperate tone, they ask for something else entirely.
|13 North, 1 East
|Two whales is possibly a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the planet Magrathea, where (improbably) two incoming missiles are turned into a whale and a bowl of petunias. It may also be a reference to the album From Mars to Sirius by the French heavy metal band Gojira, specifically the track, "Flying Whales."
|6 North, 1 East
|A hot air balloon is the oldest form of human-carrying flight.
|1 North, 1 East
|The "center" of the world; the default loaded image with Cueball floating by balloon. The balloons may be a reference to comic 1106. This may also be a reference to Winnie The Pooh. The parking lot to the west ends to a grassy/rocky field with a tree. A hill runs up to the east with a fountain.
|14 South, 1 East
|15 South, 1 East
|16 South, 1 East
|17 South, 1 East
|9 North, 2 East
|Apollo 13 messaging 'Houston, we have a problem'.
|3 North, 2 East
|A reference to the Greek myth of Icarus and his father's escape from Crete by building wings of feathers and wax. The joke is that, the incredible part of the story, the fact that Icarus and his father actually flew with simple wax and feathers, is downplayed to try to give children an object lesson about humility and hubris.
|1 North, 2 East
|14 South, 2 East
|17 South, 2 East
|3 North, 3 East
|2 North, 3 East
|1 North, 3 East
|14 South, 3 East
|17 South, 3 East
|18 South, 3 East
|Minecraft reference: Someone escapes a creeper, running deeper into the cave he just fell in.
|2 North, 4 East
|1 North, 4 East
|A black empty tile (required because unspecified North tiles are automatically filled with white).
|18 South, 4 East
|19 South, 4 East
|2 North, 5 East
|Cueball can't get cellphone reception, while two wingsuit flyers are leaping off a cliff above him.
|1 North, 5 East
|A black empty tile (required because unspecified North tiles are automatically filled with white).
|17 South, 5 East
|Possibly The Nautilus, the submarine from Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874)
|19 South, 5 East
|8 North, 6 East
|Red Five is both Anakin and Luke Skywalker's call sign. Anakin uses the sign in the Battle of Coruscant and Luke uses it in the Battle of Yavin. Also note the use of "cannon" and "canon."
|2 North, 6 East
|Giant airborne jellyfish.
|1 North, 6 East
|16 South, 6 East
|17 South, 6 East
|19 South, 6 East
|1 North, 7 East
|Level 1-1 of the original Super Mario Bros. This is confirmed by text on 3 South, 7 East. The level's "bottomless pits" continue downward.
|1 South, 7 East
|2 South, 7 East
|3 South, 7 East
|4 South, 7 East
|5 South, 7 East
|6 South, 7 East
|7 South, 7 East
|8 South, 7 East
|RPG style pit trap
|9 South, 7 East
|Another Minecraft reference. Cueball standing while a girl swings a pickaxe to further dig out a tunnel. Farther down, part of the mine shaft has collapsed and sealed the hole.
|10 South, 7 East
|11 South, 7 East
|12 South, 7 East
|13 South, 7 East
|14 South, 7 East
|Someone's walker cane is wedged in the right hand mine shaft
|15 South, 7 East
|16 South, 7 East
|Suspension bridge ostensibly holding up the mine shafts above it, preventing them from falling on pyramid in the cavern village below.
|17 South, 7 East
|Pyramid in a cavern (Minecraft?) village.
|19 South, 7 East
|Horizontal tunnel
|1 North, 8 East
|Four wind turbines
|16 South, 8 East
|17 South, 8 East
|18 South, 8 East
|19 South, 8 East
|1 North, 9 East
|Reference to the first line of "99 Problems" by Jay-Z ("If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son. I've got 99 problems but a <rhymes with "witch"> ain't one."). Just left of the fence is a small cleared area with what appears to be a frog in the center. Frog Prince?
|3 North, 10 East
|The outline of a Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 aircraft, with original photo located here.
|1 North, 10 East
|11 North, 11 East
|An empty white tile with symetric coordinates (11 N, 11 E).
|1 North, 11 East
|11 South, 11 East
|An empty black tile with symetric coordinates (11 N, 11 E).
Note, that this PNG file contains an ICC section which means that the blackness in this image is properly color-corrected.
|5 North, 12 East
|A hot-air balloon with someone singing "Daiiisyyy... Daiiiiisy..." and another person climbing up the balloon to rip it open. These are Hal 9000's dying words as Dave pulls the plug (Daisy Bell).
|1 North, 12 East
|Bourne or Sagamore Bridge
|1 North, 13 East
|Bourne or Sagamore Bridge. A horse-drawn wagon and a tank are both crossing; a fishing boat is in the water and two character sit atop the bridge "nom"ing
|1 North, 14 East
|Bourne or Sagamore Bridge
|1 North, 15 East
|A character sits atop a flagpole singing the chorus of the song "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger. The characters in the wagon reference the Oregon Trail computer game. Black Hat waits at the end of the bridge with a canon.
|2 North, 16 East
|1 North, 16 East
|A cabin which appears to be hooked up to a series of electrical towers.
|2 North, 17 East
|1 North, 17 East
|More power lines and a steep cliff dropoff to water. Cueball watches a butterfly flit around as they did in the Peanuts comic strip.
|3 North, 18 East
|Commercial airline jet with landing gear deployed. Caption: "Folks, this is your captain speaking. I need you all to turn on every electronic device your have. There's no time to explain." (a reference to the game with the same name?)
|1 North, 18 East
|Two swimmers in the ocean saying "Stupid FreeBSD...". FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system. A reference to 349: Success.
|1 North, 19 East
|A humpback whale as seen in Pacific Life Insurance advertisements.
|1 North, 20 East
|A rocky shore
|1 North, 21 East
|A fin-shaped object protrudes from the ground
|2 North, 22 East
|1 North, 22 East
|An anchor for Guy-wires
|3 North, 23 East
|2 North, 23 East
|1 North, 23 East
|An anchor for Guy-wires
|4 North, 24 East
|3 North, 24 East
|2 North, 24 East
|1 North, 24 East
|An anchor for Guy-wires
|5 North, 25 East
|4 North, 25 East
|3 North, 25 East
|2 North, 25 East
|1 North, 25 East
|6 North, 26 East
|5 North, 26 East
|4 North, 26 East
|Black Hat is hanging from one of the wire supports.
|3 North, 26 East
|2 North, 26 East
|1 North, 26 East
|An anchor for Guy-wires
|7 North, 27 East
|6 North, 27 East
|Tallest man made structure is Burj Khalifa (829.84 m (2,723 ft)) located in Dubai. This appears to be the former record-holder, the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota.
|5 North, 27 East
|4 North, 27 East
|3 North, 27 East
|2 North, 27 East
|1 North, 27 East
|The base of a radio tower
|6 North, 28 East
|5 North, 28 East
|4 North, 28 East
|3 North, 28 East
|2 North, 28 East
|1 North, 28 East
|An anchor for Guy-wires
|5 North, 29 East
|4 North, 29 East
|Someone is sliding down the wire.
|3 North, 29 East
|2 North, 29 East
|1 North, 29 East
|4 North, 30 East
|3 North, 30 East
|2 North, 30 East
|1 North, 30 East
|An anchor for Guy-wires
|3 North, 31 East
|2 North, 31 East
|1 North, 31 East
|An anchor for Guy-wires
|2 North, 32 East
|1 North, 32 East
|An anchor for Guy-wires
|1 North, 33 East
|A tree with a tractor
|1 North, 34 East
|A rolling grassy landscape with a fence
|1 North, 35 East
|a barn and some trees
|1 North, 36 East
|Reference to the original Pokemon games. When Prof. Oak tells you not to go into the tall grass without a Pokemon.
|1 North, 37 East
|1 North, 38 East
|Grass with a short rectangular structure
|2 North, 39 East
|The top of a water tower
|1 North, 39 East
|The base of a water tower
|1 North, 40 East
|1 North, 41 East
|1 North, 42 East
|1 North, 43 East
|1 North, 44 East
|1 North, 45 East
|1 North, 46 East
|1 North, 47 East
|1 North, 48 East
|Cueball with a balloon in his hand, flying towards the image border. He says "I wonder where I'll float next". This is a reference to the very first xkcd comic. It may also be a reference to World of Goo, a computer game, where at the and of level 1 the goo balls leave the screen carried by balloons, wondering what will be next.
Whole Image
The probably best way to see the whole image and navigate effortlessly through it (map-like, with zooming in and out), has been implemented at http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/ and http://clickanddrag.azurewebsites.net/. There is also a version at http://sumamimasen.com/xkcd/1110/ that stays faithful to the original, but adds keyboard controls.
- The click-and-drag portion of this comic is divided up into 2592 sections of 2048x2048 pixels.
- There are 225 separate 2048x2048 PNG files (plus the PNG container with the first panels). The other 2337 sections are simply filled black (in the south) or white (in the north) with HTML.
- The populated area is 81 frames wide(33 West - 48 East) and 32 frames tall (13 North - 19 South)
- According to Randall in #xkcd on the night this was released, a full size image of this comic, leaving out the blanks would be 60 gigapixels, a true single rectangular image would be close to a terapixel. The online version is 1 gigapixel without the blanks and 10 gigapixel as rectangular image (2048x2048x225 = 943,718,400 and 2048x2048x2592 = 10,871,635,968).
- Based on the height of figures as well as the "two mile" figure given on the left-hand side, the scale should be approximately 32 pixels per 5 feet, making the entire map 25920 feet wide (4.9 miles or 7.9 kilometers) by 10240 feet tall (1.9 miles or 3.1 kilometers). If it were an overhead area, it would be about 9.5 square miles (6093 acres or 24.7 square km), roughly the size of Block Island, Rhode Island, USA.
- If the 2048x2048 PNGs were to be printed out as a single poster at 300 dpi, the poster would be 15.36 yards (14.05 meters) long and 6.07 yards (5.55 meters) tall. Most of the detail would be invisible, as these PNGs are optimized for ~72 dpi screens.
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It's a bit of a stretch, but I think the jellyfish is playing Super Mario Bros.. 220.127.116.11 11:36, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
I went all the way west, but when I tried going east when I got to the mario bit I went down and got lost :( 188.8.131.52 21:22, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Newbie editor here (ducks abuse and fires back). When I saw the lighthouse with Megan and Ponytail @ 1 North, 13 West, I immediately went to [1]. --Philo Pharynx (talk) 18:23, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
This is great! Keep up the good work! The servers are melting, but keep refreshing if you get a 500 error. Let's get that chart filled out. --Jeff (talk) 19:05, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I've been dragging for ages, and it hasn't looped back on itself yet. Source diving tells me that it's freakin' massive, and it loads in a million separate tiles. Please, let me cry in a corner at the impossible majesty of it all. Davidy22 (talk) 06:59, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- I'm source diving, and I've managed to extend the boundaries massively. Trying to find a way to remove the click and drag restriction on this monstrosity, think I've figured it out. Will have obscenely massive image uploaded within the next few hours. Davidy22 (talk) 07:24, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I swear, it's like he found out about us, and is now saying "Oh, yeah? Well how about this?" Other than the gripes of how hard it's going to be to get this thing explained, this one is pretty epic. lcarsos (talk) 08:08, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I started to comment some easter eggs. Come on, we can make it :-). -- Hkmaly (talk) 09:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I found the left hand boundary of the page reasonably quickly. Once you cross the sea you get their pretty fast. I also found an X-Wing coming out of the ground quoting a line from just after the death star trench run. -- Chrisnoise (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Different methods of viewing the world
For those who get impatient scrolling around (and are a little savvy): download the .html file for the comic (index.html), and also the file 1110.js. Edit the .html file to use your 1110.js instead of the one from xkcd.com. Then edit 1110.js:
* remove the line "overflow: 'hidden'," * change the "1"s into "4"s in "for(var y=-1;y<=+1;y++)" and in "for(var x=-1;x<=+1;x++){" * optionally, remove the line "$remove.remove();" (warning: this will make it take up a lot of memory eventually!)
Then open the local copy in your web browser. Zooming out, scrolling, and zooming back in helps find the easter eggs.
-- 220.127.116.11 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- This Page's instructions say to zoom in and out when browsing the modified local file. My browser skills are rusty. I have Firefox, and when I zoom in and out, it zooms the whole page, rather than just the interesting bit. However, seeing as how there are 16000+ panels, I don't think I want to zoom it out quite so very far anyway. Firefox is notoriously bad when there are lots of images on a page (and yes, it cratered while I was exploring the original page). In any case, can someone clarify the use of zoom? 18.104.22.168 08:40, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
The above can be done, without downloading, by putting Chrome or Chromium into developer mode by hitting F12, then altering the very same setting in the page, as you view it --Kazvorpal (talk) 22:28, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
All is revealed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4542367 - seriously. Links to downloads, full images, how to link directly to a point of interest and so on. -- 184.108.40.206 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Another full view, with pan and zoom http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/ -- 184.108.40.206 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
For the pack rats, here is a .tar.gz of all the pngs. You can use these to reference where in the comic you are. Files are named <number><north/south><number><east/west>.png. So 1n8w.png is 1 north, 8 west. Let's get this thing done. lcarsos (talk) 09:12, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I've made a full-screen version with cursor control: http://ares.aylett.co.uk/xkcd/ Axa (talk) 12:51, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- Seems I'm really too slow, plus I have CSS problems (there are gaps between my rows) but I'll share what I did anyway. Create a file with
.htmlextension with the following content (if you've downlaoded all the images already, you can change the code to use your local files) and you get a map of the world.
<!doctype html> <html><head><title>Click and Drag</title> <style> table { border-collapse: collapse; } td { padding: 0px; } td.s { background-color: black; } </style> </head><body><table><script> var x, y, src, cssClass; for (y = -13; y <= 18; y++) { document.write('<tr>'); for (x = -33; x <= 47; x++) { src = (y>=0?(y+1)+'s':-y+'n')+(x>=0?(x+1)+'e':-x+'w'); cssClass = y>=0?'s':'n'; url = "http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/" + src + ".png"; //url = src + ".png"; // Remove comment to use local files document.write('<td class=' + cssClass + '><a HREF="' + url + '"><img width="64" height="64" title=' + src + ' src="' + url + '"></a></td>'); } document.write('</tr>'); } </script> </table> </html>
- --22.214.171.124 09:58, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- I've created a file which looks the very same :-) The gaps between the rows seem to come from the
<img>elements being displayed as inline content, adding some whitespaces to the cells. I now use this css code:
- I've created a file which looks the very same :-) The gaps between the rows seem to come from the
* { padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; } table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; table-layout: fixed; } td { width: 2048px; height: 2048px; } img { display: block; }
- --18.104.22.168 15:06, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
This is the best full-size view of the comic: http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/ 22.214.171.124 15:02, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
ZIP upload
I've locally downloaded all the tiles (there is 225 PNG files) and made a ZIP file of them, but when trying to upload it here the Special:Upload page says: "Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg." Do I have to upload each tile one by one or is there a way to exceptionally bypass this restriction? Thanks. — Ethaniel (talk) 09:13, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not sure we should upload each individual frame for this one. Though, we do need to have a discussion about how we're going to handle/archive/explain this one, because it's going to be big and tedius. Maybe some adventurous and hardy soul can stitch together grids of this so that we don't have the problem of having too much image (a single terapixel image will kill anyone's PC if they try to load it) and having so little (while the grids Randall's created are nice and bite-sized, it's hard to see the whole thing). lcarsos (talk) 09:20, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry for the late response, I had to go to bed (I only got 4 hours of sleep anyways) to be able to get up for work today. The template is massively helpful. I crown you champion. It might be interesting to split up each page into sub-pages of this, and then transclude in the first paragraph from the subpage. So, [[1110: Click and Drag/1n1e]] would have a full description, including links to adjacent/related tiles, but have another template transclude in the synopsis and transcript into the table on this page. That's pie-in-the-sky thinking, and definitely should not be done today while the server is being hammered like it is. lcarsos (talk) 17:08, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
It doesn't seem to be a terapixel. There are 225 images of 2048x2048 pixels. The full range is 81x32 tiles, resulting in a 165888x65536 images, at approximately 10 gigapixels. The naming conventions is numberlatitudenumberlongitude.png, where lat can be either n or s, and long can be either e or w. E.g. 1n1e.png, which is the starting image, and they are located at http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/. -- Aufgehaben (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
There's far more than 225 images >> http://lebbeo.us/2012/09/19/not-bbq-fetching-component-images-of-xkcd-comic-1110/ 22.214.171.124 11:17, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Seems to me what should happen is that someone should setup a "slippy map" without having to use the browser's zoom in/out capabilities. Think openlayers. -- Anarcat (talk) 13:35, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I found two raptors. I couldn't even begin to tell you where they are. Follow the left side. Past the oceans and in some grass...somewhere. This is a lot to draw...I wonder how he did it. The shear size of each image, combined with the fact that they seamlessly transition together...when did he start? How much time did he put in? He should have waited one more to get comic 1111, I think. 22.214.171.124 09:29, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- The far right also quotes the very first xkcd comic ever. 184.108.40.206 09:39, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Black hat
I found him in 2 locations, with a weapon both times. The Gatling gun he has on the building above the XKCD What if? cranes looks like he could be waiting to shoot something. Did anyone find anything he might be trying to shoot? 126.96.36.199 13:09, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Nevermind. There's nothing there. But there is a hot air balloon below the area I suspected. 220.127.116.11 13:16, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
End of the JS file comment
At the end of the JavaScript file responsible for the map code, there's a comment "/* 50:72:6f:50:75:6b:65:20:69:73:20:61:77:65:73:6f:6d:65 */". Interpreted as hex codes for ASCII text, this reads "ProPuke is awesome". -- 126.96.36.199 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Interesting. Google tells me that ProPuke is the handle of a programmer from the UK. This morning, on his twitter feed, he posted "57:68:79:2c:20:74:68:61:6e:6b:20:79:6f:75:21". This translates from hex as "Why, thank you!" Also, his Wikipedia user page tells us a lot about him too. I wonder if he contributed to the code? 18.104.22.168 23:24, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I've been dragging and clicking for an hour, and I accidentally found the right edge. I started going left, and when I got to the island, I went into the Earth. I followed tunnels and caves down (at one point, there's a massive underground lake and a tree with a man sitting pensively by it (possibly Dawson?)) there until I found the tunnel that ends up going back to the surface in MarioWorld (complete with flag and castle), and went right from there. After the wind turbines, there's a bridge. On the other side of the bridge is a fencepost joke (If you're having fencepost problems, I feel bad for you son: I've got 99 problems but solved for 101). After that, there's a Burj Dubai reference (I assume the radio tower representing it is drawn to scale - it's very tall). After that, I went up a hill that had random farm callouts scattered on it, and on the other side of the hill is a large water tower. After that, there's grassland until the edge, which has Balloon Randall again saying, "I wonder where I'll float next." -- 22.214.171.124 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- I'm going to say this is a perfect example of what Randall wanted by creating a world so huge you can explore for hours, get lost, not care, and find yourself again, and keep wondering what you'll discover next. lcarsos (talk) 18:20, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
IRC logs or it didn't happen
When I get home I'll post the logs I have (didn't think to have logging turned on until after the discussion started) so that it won't seem like I'm crazy. I remember Randall saying that a full, uncompressed, single rectangular image would be near a terapixel (the figure was something like 800 gigapixels). lcarsos (talk) 16:04, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
ICC sections
The following files have ICC sections:
$ grep -l iCCPicc xkcd_grab/*.png xkcd_grab/11s11e.png xkcd_grab/11s11w.png xkcd_grab/16s1e.png xkcd_grab/17s1e.png xkcd_grab/19s7e.png xkcd_grab/1n30e.png xkcd_grab/1n39e.png xkcd_grab/2n3w.png xkcd_grab/3n25e.png xkcd_grab/4s17w.png xkcd_grab/6n2w.png xkcd_grab/8n1w.png
(source of the images for me: '
git clone "https://github.com/danielribeiro/xkcd_grab.git"')
At first I thought the white/black tiles were a hint to some steganography embedded in the images. Then I found those ICC sections and thought it was just a pun to add a color profile to a black image. But not all of the above are just black and having a color profile for white image parts can actually make sense, so maybe someone else has a clue, why those (and only those) tiles have color profiles...
-- Xorg (talk) 19:55, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Do a binary compare on the files.
Seems that the description insinuates that the "Jesus" reference (1n21w) is intended to be vocative, not expletive. Can somebody substatiate that conclusion, as opposed to the position that Randall meant s/Jesus/Cripe/... ? (I guess this is just a long-winded way of saying [Citation Needed].) -- IronyChef (talk) 03:43, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Reference to 'footsteps in the sand'. Not expletive.
In 1 North 7 East there are dots and lines. What do they mean?
I think its a reference to Super Mario.--188.8.131.52 08:47, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
This is a sad, sad day that this had to be explained to someone who reads this comic.
No it's not! It's a Ten Thousand day http://xkcd.com/1053/. --Ohbejoyful (talk) 01:24, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Bob Ross
The reference on 1n 33w seems to be related to Bob Ross, he used similar expressions about where items should live on a canvas "You know, this is a nice spot. Let's just live here. "
I would like to note that "Bob Ross" would be an excellent name for a ninja turtle.--188.8.131.52 08:23, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
la raja amo a bjork y estoy demasiado feliz que venga, pero debeira venir con portishead, ella es la raja y seria un honor presenciar tan buena musica, y teniendo a dos exponentes del trip hop juntas..suerte ojala sea seguro y no se suspenda.ahh y smashing pumpkins es de las bandas que me aconpa;o en su creciemiento, en la adolescencia ojala venga, seria espectacular, por favor si hay que se pueda hacer, avinsen para hacer firmas y weas, ojala viniesen.gracias por los maravillosos conciertos que han estado en chile este ultimo anosuerte!!!
How are we certain that the maximum radius of the world is only 48 tiles? If I'm reading everything correctly, didn't Randall say that it was much larger than everybody is measuring? Isn't one explanation for this that there may be more than we've found? Does anybody have a script running that is still exploring?
Answer: This line in the 1110.js source file: "var size=[14,48,25,33];" That controls how far you can scroll. Having hit all the edges you know those are the limits too. There are no actual tiles as far down as 25 or as far up as 14, but it means the page just fills that with white or black as needed. It does mean you can't find the whales by simply going to the top left and going along the top to the right since they will be one tile further down. Same with the tunnel at the bottom. It is a number of tiles above the bottom edge of the image. Lsorense (talk) 18:12, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer. In a world filled with secrets, I still wonder if there's a file on the server in more outer-realm locations. :)
- Would be an interesting little project to (lightly) hit the server with out-of-bounds requests, to see what comes back instead of 404s -- IronyChef (talk) 14:10, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
More Trivia
- There is one (dark dark) green pixel in 9s7e.png. The remainder is all grayscale.
- A number of the images have apparently been updated. Probably with a PNG optimizer, since the displayed data is unchanged.
- The complete 10 gigapixel image, changed to grayscale, can fit into a 15 Megabyte PNG image. (Though having made it, I can't load it in my normal viewers.)
--Divad27182 (talk) 03:21, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
How do you know the pictures are not uptdated or completed from time to time, adding or moving tiles?
Will this be unlocked at some point? There are still a number of un-filled-in cells! - jerodast (talk) 11:07, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
- I think it was locked as a guard against spam. That was a while ago though, maybe the admins forgot about it. Davidy22[talk] 11:10, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
- Special:Log shows that the unlocking will occur automatically on December 7. Also, Special:ListUsers shows that your account was created on 3 December 2012 at 13:01 UTC. After 3 days and 10 edits, it will be automatcally promoted to autoconfirmed, so tomorrow by this time you will be able to edit semiprotected pages like this one. Only full protection prevents everyone except admins from editing the page (e.g. the main page). Hope this helps :) --Waldir (talk) 14:51, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Is there really any need for the bolded Transcript sections for tiles where there is no dialogue? It seems like it just makes the chart heavier. And for example at 1N, 22W, is there any real distinction between the description used before the "Transcript" compared to the stage directions that come after? - jerodast (talk) 14:20, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Edges connected
I found this: http://baltixy.w.interia.pl/xkcd/1110.htm. Looks like the original, but the left and right sides are connected. Should we add this here? 126.96.36.199 19:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
You know what would be awesome?
if you could control one of the stick figures, and walk around and (possibly) interact with objects. Someone should really make that. 18.104.22.168 01:23, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
another click and drag browser
hey,how about this?just basic html site,should someone add it here? http://geocities.ws/pluman/clickanddrag/ --22.214.171.124 14:54, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
path to completeness?
excuse me, I have no idea what would make it complete? - right now I would say: thumbnails to all listed artifacts (like "man-made structure") - just making screenshots and upload and link? Anything else? Thanks for advise -- 188.8.131.52 07:53, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- second: I guess each listed tile should have a short explanation what's to see there?
- some tiles have "Transcript" while there is a full story like in a usual comic, e.g. 1 North, 33 West
- others have "transcript" and just describing static things, e.g. 6 South, 17 West
- and some more have just plain description, like "Water" e.g. 1 North, 12 West
- what looks best in case 3?
- third: I found incomplete-description : Some of the jokes in the larger world might benefit from an explanation ;-) thx, 22.214.171.124 08:22, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- Something tells of What if #51 free fall. 126.96.36.199 20:11, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
At this point I am not sure what else we can add: The description of the completeness problem talks about jokes in the larger world, but without some clarification on what is meant by that I don't know how to add anything. Furthermore, I think at this point we need to move on to another comic as the incomplete explanation of the day: Click and Drag is just too difficult to add any more information to, and I think if a different comic was chosen you would see a much higher rate of participation in the project. Bbruzzo (talk) 23:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Video Game Reference
This immediately brought to mind the game "Unfinished Swan". "The player is a young boy chasing after a swan who has wandered off into a surreal, unfinished kingdom. The game begins in a completely white space where players can throw paint to splatter their surroundings and reveal the world around them." [2] The look of the comic is similar and the game has balloons throughout. 22.214.171.124 13:47, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Submarine? Perhaps not.
I saw the entry for 17 South, 5 East listed as a submarine. However when I first saw it I immediately thought of a project called the "Blur Building".
Reasons I don't think it's a sub:
- No rudder
- No propeller
- Not teardrop shaped
- dual conning towers (subs typically have one)
Before editing it I thought I would ask for comment here first. So what do you think? Is it a submarine or the blur building? Or neither? --Tsdorsey (talk) 17:19, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Either the Blur Building or a U.F.O. Randall has shown interest to space and planets in many XKCD comics and other places *cough* the What If? book *cough cough* -- JayRulesXKCD (talk) 12:57, 9 September 2016 (EDT)
Definitely not a Submarine.
It's a Winans Cigar Boat! Even for xkcd this reference is truly arcane! I recently managed to find these things myself based a vague, twenty year old memory of seeing a strange illustration as a child. Thank god (or the devil, whatever) for Google. 126.96.36.199 02:49, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Oh... could be. Who knows? -- JayRulesXKCD (talk) 12:58, 9 September 2016 (EDT)
Some notes on missing entries
As I don't have an account here, I'm going to go ahead and assume I can't add this information myself. But as a Nerd Sniping victim I just went through the entire chart to explore all the elements (primarily the elements I missed on my exploring the actual comic), and I noticed some gaps in the chart:
- 1N3E: There's no mention that Cueball and Megan (I think that's Megan) are attempting to use a small sapling to bridge a gap in this quadrant.
- 17S5E: I feel I must disagree that this thing is a Winans Cigar Boat. I initially took it as a UFO, with the implication that it's being kept secret quite effectively by keeping it underground, the surrounding thatched roofed structures being left over from some ancient tribe which encountered the UFO. I maintain this belief because it has feet/landing gear. I see what I took for a bottom hatch of a UFO could be the bottom part of a ring which a Google Image Search shows looks to be the exposure for a Cigar Boat's large propeller. The top edge matches the second result of this search quite well, the computer rendered image, but the bottom looks like permanently installed feet, useless on such a seafaring vessel.
- 8N6E: Misses the meaning of "canon". Canon, with one N, refers to facts established for a universe - usually one with considerable content establishing a detailed world, like Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, or even Harry Potter - in a way where it counts as part of the "history" of that universe. For example, an official Star Wars novel saying Joe Blow was born November 17th, the book being official makes this fact "canon", meaning all future things (books, movies) should refer to Joe Blow's birthday as November 17th, nothing should say otherwise (or must have an explanation as to the discrepancy). This fact can be counted on in discussions. Conversely, if a fan fiction declares Jill Thrill was born July 20th, this is NOT "canon", as the source isn't an official one which can adjust the universe. The line in this comic appears to be making fun of the similar spellings of "cannon" and "canon", that he is both free from being shot at and from having to stick to known facts of the Star Wars universe.
- 17S6E: Next to the Winans Cigar Boat/UFO are a bunch of thatched roof huts/structures, which isn't mentioned in the table.
- 1N8E: My impression was that these turbines were a reference to xkcd 556: Alternative Energy Revolution (one of the few comics which appear on every comic page). The comic listed, 1378: Turbine, came well after 1110, while 556 had already been released in the past. Also, 556 features several turbines, like here (1378 only shows one), being watched, like here (both times the observer is even the same character, Megan).
- 11S11W and 11E: I find the explanation "This PNG file contains an ICC section which means that the blackness in this image is properly color-coded" to be severely lacking. Firstly, while I have done a lot of image editing, it has all been in JPG and GIF files (okay, some PCX and BMP way back when), I've never used or edited an "ICC section", I don't know what an "ICC section" is or what it does, other than what it says here. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. What does "ICC" even stand for? Secondly, the Wikipedia link is to an article which describes doing color-correction for lighting, for photography and television, things like that, like by using gels. This gives about no clue as to how this is achieved for or applies to a digital image or what effect this should have, especially on black, a decidedly LACK of light and colour. (I know I couldn't see any difference between these tiles and the other black tiles nearby)
- 9S7E: The Trivia says there is a very dark green pixel in here, but I don't see it anywhere. I even saved that tile locally - the tile containing a couple of people mining - to open it in an image editor to zoom better, nothing. I went to the coordinates specified, I still saw no green, even zoomed in to I think 14:1. Finally, using the dropper tool, I found it at the coordinates specified, it says the RGB colour is 0,2,0. It would be best to mention that, that the difference is too infinitesimal to see with the naked eye, even for someone with perfect vision! LOL!
Just trying to contribute how I can. :) - NiceGuy1 (Previously contributed to the Princess Bride comic) 126.96.36.199 09:06, 21 January 2016 (UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. NiceGuy1 (talk) 05:54, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
- Having just read 1589: Frankenstein, I wish to note that it uses the word "canon" as I described when discussing 8N6E, above. Also, the Explain page includes discussing what the word means. :) (I'm posting this from the same iPad using the same wifi as the above comment, so I'm rather curious if it'll show the same IP, LOL! I should probably create an account already) - NiceGuy1 184.108.40.206 05:11, 19 February 2016 (UTC) So's this! NiceGuy1 (talk) 05:54, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
There is a crowbar in the right borehole in the pair of boreholes above the ufo cvern


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Our guest blogger is Erik Stegman, Manager of the Half in Ten campaign for the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
As the last window of opportunity to pass a fully-inclusive Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization comes close to shutting in the final days of the 112th Congress, many are wondering why Republican House leadership, particularly Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), are so opposed to the provisions protecting Native American women on tribal reservations. Other Republican leaders — including Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA), John Kline (R-MN), Mike Simpson (R-ID), Tom Cole (R-OK), and Patrick McHenry (R-NC) — have proposed a reasonable compromise that protects Native women, but it puts them at odds with the Majority Leader.
With the Issa compromise on the table and backed by several House Committee chairs, what are Republicans like Cantor still so concerned about that they're willing to hold up the landmark law that funds services, strengthens law enforcement for domestic violence, and increases accountability for offenders?
Here's everything you need to know about the GOP's opposition to new protections for Native women on tribal lands:
1. Non-Native men will continue to receive a jurisdictional free pass for abusing Native women:
In response to the epidemic rates of domestic violence against Native women on reservations, the Department of Justice issued a legislative proposal that would restore Tribes' ability to prosecute misdemeanor crimes of domestic and dating violence committed by non-Natives against Native women. This proposal also requires that the non-Native offender either live or work on the reservation and be in an existing relationship with the victim. DOJ statistics show that 3 out of 5 Native women had been assaulted by their intimate partners and 56 percent of American Indian women have non-Indian husbands.
Today on Indian reservations, the local governments don't have the ability to respond to domestic violence crimes in their community if the perpetrator isn't Native. Without this ability, non-Native offenders often go unpunished on tribal land because the only ones who can bring them to justice are federal prosecutors who are often hundreds of miles away and lack local resources to properly investigate and prosecute these crimes. The result, according to a recent National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-funded report, the offenders become emboldened, and the violence escalates to rape and in some cases homicide. On some Indian reservations, the homicide rate of Native women is 10 times the national average.
2. Republicans are more concerned with Non- Native perpetrators than Native victims:
So why do some Republicans like Cantor still have issues with a well-reasoned, narrowly-scoped DOJ proposal to reduce violence against Native women on reservations? An unbalanced concern for the rights non-Native men accused of these crimes. Even though the current Senate version of VAWA includes a full set of constitutional protections for suspects of abuse, including due-process rights and a right to counsel, Cantor and other Republicans continue to stall the VAWA Reauthorization because of baseless constitutional concerns for those accused of abusing Native women.
In the spirit of compromise within their own caucus, Issa and his colleagues proposed a powerful extra protection for defendants in their bill last week: a new right to remove the case to a federal court if the defendant's rights are violated by a local tribal court. Although advocates for Native women would prefer to see the Senate version passed, this compromise is a reasonable way to get a deal done and improve the system of justice on reservations. It will clarify that all persons who commit a crime of domestic or dating violence on an Indian reservation will be arrested and held accountable, regardless of their race.
3. Local tribal law enforcement is more responsive to Native women:
The Senate version of VAWA would end jurisdictional black holes that give non-Native men a free pass to abuse Native women and evade justice. It would provide local tribal law enforcement with the much-needed ability to investigate and prosecute crimes against Native women in their own communities, just as other state and local authorities do for other victims in the country. Prosecuting these crimes requires sensitive and time-consuming work with family and community members. Tribal prosecutors are down the street on the reservation and work closely with the tribal police who respond to these crimes. Restoring local control will provide the victim, the family, and the community the ability to seek responsive justice locally. There's no reason that their ability to fully prosecute these crimes should rest on the skin color of the accused abuser.

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While the IBM 350 Disk File and several successors came with a single actuator arm and magnetic head that moved up and down the stack of platters to do the data reads and writes, the IBM 1301 Disk Storage Unit featured a separate arm and head for each platter. All the arms moved in and out together. This eliminated the need to remove the arm/head from one platter and move it to another.
The IBM 1301 was also the first hard drive whose heads rode a thin layer of air caused by the spin of the platters. This kept the heads closer to the platters to increase storage density; it could store 28 million characters per module on 20 platters.


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Team USA Myles Porter Takes Silver at Paralympic Games in London
Team USA's Myles Porter Takes Silver at Paralympic Games in London
September 1, 2012 - Team USA's Myles Porter will bring home thesilver medal after a hard-fought day at the Paralympic Games in London.
Porter, 100 kg (U.S. Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs, CO) began hisclimb defeating Japan's Aramitsu Kitazono. Myles had a bye the first round. Kitazono had just defeated Cuba's Juan Cortada Burmudez. Myles defeated Japan in just four seconds with a foot sweep.
In his next match, Porter demonstrated superior strength and stamina besting Russian opponent, Vladimir Fedin, who clearly tired through this match. Early on, the Russian picked up a yuko on a labored drop seoi nage. Porter, though, maintained extraordinary pressure on Fedin, firing foot sweeps and sacrifice throws over and over, peppered with armbar attempts until, finally, the Russian was penalized. With about a minute left, Porter picked up a wazari on penalties against Fedin that would carry him to victory.
That put Porter in the finals against Gwang-Geun Choi of South Korea. There,Myles and his coach, Eddie Liddie, said Porter made a fleeting mistake.
"I just deviated from the plan a little bit," Porter said. "I thought I'd be able to pick him and he just held onto my arm and I ended up rolling through."
"He just got caught," saidLiddie. "He started floating with him and the guy just came in and got him."
A Silver Medal is a huge accomplishment, Liddie said. "It's tough being so close to the gold, "but he should be very proud."
Porter's victory came close on the heels of a bronze medal taken today at the Paralympic Games in London by Dartanyon Crockett, 90 kg (U.S. Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs, CO). On his first shot at the Paralympic Games, Crockett climbed the brackets, defeating a Russian opponent in the final match who was the Paralympic Champion in Beijing.
Also placing for Team USA at the Paralympic Games were Ron Hawthorne,60 kg (U.S. Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs, CO), Katie Davis +70 kg (Team Sacramento, Sacramento, CA) and Christella Garcia, 70 kg (Sacramento Judo, Sacramento, CA) who took 7th place; and Cindy Simon, 57 kg (Kokushikai Judo Academy, Fair Lawn, N.J.) who took 5th place.
For more information and results, go to www.IPPON.ORG and http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/judo/.


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San Diego, California (CNN) -- Peanuts are like poison for people who have severe food allergies to them. For some, ingesting even a tiny piece of peanut can trigger a potentially fatal reaction.
But new research is showing that immunotherapy, a method of giving a small dose of peanut to a patient in a controlled setting and then increasing the amount over a few months, may help temper these reactions. It's the same principle as allergy shots, only done with food.
The research, conducted at Cambridge University Hospitals in the United Kingdom, was presented Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Cambridge group will begin a randomized controlled trial next month with 104 children involved, similar to the peanut study done already, but with controls, said researcher Dr. Andrew Clark of Cambridge University Hospitals.
Some 30,000 Americans go to the emergency room each year because of severe food allergies, said Dr. Stefano Luccioli of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Food Additive Safety. Food allergies affect about 4 percent of adults and 6 to 8 percent of children under 3, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Researchers took a group of 23 children allergic to peanuts and gave them small amounts of peanuts to eat daily, usually starting with 1 mg, said Clark. The peanut quantity was increased carefully every two weeks, until the children could eat about five peanuts.
They took this dose daily for at least six weeks, mostly tolerating it well except for some temporary mouth itching or abdominal pain, he said.
The results showed that 21 of the 23 children, or 91 percent, can safely eat at least five peanuts every day without any reaction. One of the children can get two peanuts a day, and one dropped out of the study. After six months, 19 of them could tolerate 12 peanuts at a time, and after one year, 15 participants could tolerate 32 peanuts. Participants said they didn't have to carefully read food labels or fear the allergy anymore, Clark said.
"This is very exciting, clearly, because here we have somebody who can have anaphylaxis and deadly reaction from trace amounts, and you're converting this person into somebody who can tolerate a significant amount of the food," said Dr. Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, associate professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
She was not involved in this study.
"I'm confident that within the next three to five years will we have a treatment that we can offer to our patients, which is not necessarily a cure," Nowak-Wegrzyn told CNN.
There is no benefit in delaying the introduction of common allergens such as milk and soy in children, and observational studies have suggested that early avoidance may actually increase the chance of developing allergies, experts said.
These kinds of studies are done under the strict supervision of professionals, with emergency medicine nearby in case of a severe reaction, experts said. This should not be tried at home.
The immunotherapy method, which Nowak-Wegrzyn called a "big advancement in the field," has also shown promise in a study by Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children's Hospital. Results presented in March 2009 showed that four of nine children allergic to peanuts could be taken off the therapy and eat peanuts freely after 2½ years of the therapy.
But there are many unknowns about this treatment, and it's not clear how permanent the state of desensitization is, she said, and this immunotherapy method is not a cure. Peanuts in particular are also tricky because, unlike with milk and eggs, children don't often outgrow their peanut allergies.
Giving small amounts of an allergen to modify the immune response is also the philosophy of allergy shots, which are commonly given for various kinds of pollen. The idea for using this for food allergies had been dismissed until about five or 10 years ago because of the side effects, Nowak-Wegrzyn said.
There is still risk involved in any kind of desensitization approach because it requires giving patients the very food that makes them react, she said. But the gradual buildup of allergens in Clark's study minimizes the risk, and the process is done in the hospital under strict supervision, she said.
Participants in immunotherapy studies have reported that they learned not to take their regulated allergen doses before exercising because it causes a faster absorption of proteins and can trigger a reaction, she said. Skipping doses can also be tricky, she said.
At Mount Sinai, researchers are exploring other approaches: One is changing the peanut proteins themselves for use in immunotherapy, with the goal of diminishing the risk of the adverse reaction during the treatment, Nowak-Wegrzyn said.
Another approach looks at antibodies called immunoglobulin E (IgE), which recognizes the offending allergenic proteins and is responsible for immediate reactions, including anaphylaxis. A treatment that has shown success in clinical trials works like a vacuum cleaner, removing all of the IgE from the bloodstream, she said. This has been approved for the treatment of asthma, and could also decrease the chance of reactions during immunotherapy for food allergies.
Other researchers at Mount Sinai have found Chinese herbal medicines successful in mice and are conducting trials on people with food allergies, she said.
Doctors have not found an explanation for why some people outgrow their food allergies and others do not, Nowak-Wegrzyn said. One theory is that as some children's immune systems mature, becoming more adult, the allergic response goes away. Also, the way that the immune system recognizes, or doesn't recognize, certain areas of proteins may play into to what extent a person can outgrow an allergy, she said. The peak times for outgrowing allergies are when a child hits school age and during the teenage years -- after college, it's unlikely, she said.
Because it's proteins that lead to reactions, technically a peanut has at least eight major food allergens, explaining why people with peanut allergies will have varying reactions, said the FDA's Luccioli.
Allergy tests are also imperfect, with some people testing positive to foods to which they don't really react, and cannot estimate the severity of reaction to any of these foods.
People with allergies must carefully read food product labels. The FDA enforces a law that requires food labels to state clearly whether a major allergen -- milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soybeans, wheat, fish and Crustacean shellfish -- are in a product, but does not govern statements such as "may contain traces of peanuts."
A better standard of what these labels mean -- for instance, the difference between "made in a facility that also processes nuts" and "may contain traces of nuts" -- would be helpful, Nowak-Wegrzyn said.


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Surf spot: The Ranch, Mexico
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Jeremy Boe writes:
I don't usually post this kind of thing but I gather from a message or two I've received that somebody actually reads these, so, in the spirit of public service etc...
If you're going to the Ranch, and you're not in a boat, FIND A LOCAL AND GET DIRECTiONS. Might I suggest the amicable dudes from the shop in Troncones. I spent five days driving down all the dusty roads in the vicinity of La Union before I found it.
Beautiful, punchy, powerful, worth it even if you were lost for five days like I was.
Separately I think a lot of locals (surfers, certainly not business owners) made quite a bit of noise about the shark attacks in Troncones and areas just north. The same garbage you often find on other parts of this site and others, with the difference that this time, there were actual fatalities to point to. In hindsight these look like a one-off (does that make them a three-off?) relating to abandoned fishing gear, whatever. I certainly wouldn't hesitate to head back.
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Hi everyone! Aparently there have been a few glitches and I have had to register about 3 times now!
BUT... I am at LEAST as persistant as my dogs... and I am here now.
(you werent TRYING to keep me out were you?) I dont give up that easy.
Anyhow, here I am... I am Lisa. Call me what you want... it wouldnt be a first.
I currently have 3 dogs. 1 amstaf, 1 amstaf/pit, 1 boston/pit (rescue)
I have had 2 other amstafs, a gsd, a mix and a matiff who have all gone over the rainbow bridge.
I have been forever devoted to the bully breeds for over 15 years. I am alco committed to the constant study of canine behavior. I find them fascinating and if I could I would probably become an honorable DOG. More and more I dont find being a human anything to brag about...
I love to teach... people... dogs.. doesnt matter (dogs are easier) I love to think of new things to train dogs to do just to see if I can.
I have been a devoted marker (clicker) trainer for over 10 years and highly reccommend it.
I have titled my dogs in agility, obed., schutzhund and weightpulling.
And trained in tracking, deer search, herding, freestyle and rally.
I am looking forward to chatting with you guys and hope to meet a BUNCH of you at THE INCREDIBULL BULLYMPICS this fall.
It is going to be a great bullfest! See http://www.bull-ympics.com
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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing.
Growing up, falling in love with a song a weird thing. A track could come out of nowhere, played by some late-night DJ once and never heard again—at least by me. Now, with the Internet and Shazam, that probably doesn't happen all that often. If you remember a chorus, you can Google the song, and bang, there it is on YouTube to be played on repeat. Growing up in the '80s or '90s, though, not so much. That's when I first heard Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus." It was like a beacon of funk and weirdness being beamed just to me from some local station's weekly Saturday Night Fever disco show. I made sure to write down the artist and title and would call into the station all the time for the song, but—weirdly—could never really convince anyone at the tightly programmed Clear Channel station to play it again for me. I gradually started to forget about its existence, but every so often, "Double Dutch Bus" will pop back into my peripheral vision. First, it showed up as a prominent sample on Missy Elliott's 2003 track "Gossip Folks," and Girl Talk used it on 2010's All Day. BoingBoing randomly linked to the original 1981 video earlier this month, reminding me again just how great a song "Double Dutch Bus" really is.


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In a statement, Unico president Andre DiMino accuses Take-Two of discrimination because Mafia II depicts Italian-Americans as violent criminals associated with organized crime.
"Why would [Take-Two] foist a game on their targeted audience of young people wherein they will indoctrinate a new generation into directly associating Italians and Italian-Americans with violent, murderous organized crime, to the exclusion of all of the other 'mafias' run by other ethnic and racial groups?" DiMino writes.
"Take-Two is directly, blatantly and unfairly discriminating and demeaning one group to the exclusion of all others. We are demanding they halt release of the game and cleanse it of all references to Italians and Italian-Americans."
Take-Two got word of the hubbub, and Chairman Strauss Zelnick responded with a statement of his own:
"Mafia II tells a compelling story about organized crime in America -- a subject that for decades has been featured in movies, television shows and novels," Zelnick wrote. "Neither Unico nor any other organization purporting to represent Italian-Americans has seen or played Mafia II. At Take-Two, we balance our right to free expression with what we believe is a thoughtful and responsible approach to creating and marketing our products. Mafia II is M-rated in accordance with our industry's strict standards. It is specifically not targeted toward young people."
Unico, Italian for "unique," was founded in 1922 as a service and charitable organization for Italian-Americans. The group is also speaking out against MTV reality show "Jersey Shore."
Mafia II is being developed for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PCs and is set for release on August 24.
Sharkey says: This just in: Unico also demands that Nintendo halt all production on any future Mario Bros. titles because the games unfairly depict Italian-Americans as short, pot-bellied, mustachioed plumbers that murder turtles.


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Authorities have focused attention in the secret recording case of Senator Mitch McConnell and his campaign team on two liberal activists with a group called Progress Kentucky. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
A local liberal group has become the target of scrutiny in a probe into the surreptitious recording published earlier this week capturing a campaign strategy session with Sen. Mitch McConnell's re-election team.
A local Democratic Party official told NBC News Thursday that two members of the activist group Progress Kentucky claimed that they were responsible for a recording published this week on the website of the progressive magazine Mother Jones. In the audio, McConnell is heard discussing with his staff opposition research into potential Democratic challengers, including the actress Ashley Judd.
"They told it to me right when it happened," said Jacob Conway, a member of the executive committee of Louisville and Jefferson County Democratic Party, in reference to two Progress Kentucky officials.
Conway said Shawn Reilly and Curtis Morrison -- founders of Progress Kentucky, a liberal, anti-McConnell group unaffiliated with the Democratic Party of Kentucky -- told him that day, Feb. 2, "that they got this McConnell recording. They told me because of the tackiness and the horrible things that McConnell was discussing. ... That is why I think they recorded it."
But a lawyer for Reilly said he is denying that he was involved.
"Other than acknowledging we were in the building, we completely disavow his characterization of those events," attorney Annie O'Connell said.
O'Connell described Reilly as a "witness" and was cooperating with the FBI.
"On the day that Mother Jones released the recording, our client met with the U.S. Attorney here in the Western District of Kentucky with the lead FBI investigator," O'Connell said. "Mr. Reilly has provided information in the FBI's efforts to locate Curtis Morrison. Our position is that Mr. Reilly is innocent of any wrongdoing. He is simply a witness, not a suspect. What we're saying is Shawn was in the office building that day, but was simply a witness to what happened."
Local NBC affiliate WAVE in Louisville spotted Conway Thursday afternoon entering and leaving the local FBI office to be interviewed for their investigation.
It is illegal for someone to wiretap or bug a room and record a conversation to which they are not a party. Kentucky, like most states, is a one-party state. In other words, if one of the people involved in the conversation recorded it, that is allowed. Illegal wiretapping is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for organizations.
But it is a murkier legal area if someone is in a hallway, for example, and overhears a conversation. Provided an individual is not trespassing, recording something that can be heard by the naked ear, is legal. But using a device to amplify sound that would not otherwise have been heard by the naked ear is not.
Separately Thursday, the treasurer of Progress Kentucky confirmed to NBC News that he had resigned from the group following the publication of the audio.
Douglas L. Davis, the group's now-former treasurer, would not comment as to his precise motivations for quitting.
"At this time based on advice of both friends and counsel, I will be not be making a public statement available until everything has been reviewed by an attorney at this time," Davis told NBC News. "I have resigned my position as treasurer and did not and do not condone any allegations of illegal activity that might have taken place."
Asked directly if Reilly and Morrison are responsible for the taping of the strategy session, Davis paused, and said, "I can't comment."
NBC News has reached out to Morrison multiple times by email and phone, but he has not yet responded.
The revelations come as federal investigators begin an investigation into the source of the audio recordings. McConnell's re-election team has publicly suggested it was the victim of a bugging operation, and McConnell pointed the finger at Progress Kentucky.
A source familiar with the investigation into the leaked McConnell audio told NBC News that the FBI had collected surveillance tape from the building in which the McConnell re-election campaign is headquartered.
The Republican Kentucky senator's re-election team has taken this as a sign that federal investigators are more actively probing the possibility that someone outside of the meeting captured on tape was responsible for the recording.
Conway, the local party official, said he has only now come forward to help disassociate the Democratic Party with any actions alleged of Progress Kentucky, especially given that Democrats in the state have a slim majority in the legislature.
"I don't want the party to be associated with this," he said.
Conway called Reilly and Morrison generally "well-intentioned." "I don't think they had sinister motives," he said. "They were there, were inexperienced, and got excited."
Progress Kentucky has a contentious history with McConnell this election cycle. Earlier this year, the group leveled criticisms of McConnell based on the ethnicity of his wife, former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao.
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In his book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins talks about a gourmet who "gave up everything, traveled thousands of miles and spent his last dime to get to the highest lamasery in the Himalayas to taste the dish he'd longed for his whole life, Tibetan peach pie. When he got there . . . the lamas said they were all out of peach. 'Okay,' said the gourmet, 'make it apple.'" I suspect you'll be having a comparable experience sometime soon, Aquarius. You may not get the exact treat you wanted, but what you'll receive in its place is something that's pretty damn good. I urge you to accept the gift as is!
Grace emerges in the ebb and flow, not just the flow. The waning reveals a different blessing than the waxing. Where are you in the great cycle of your life?
Even if your heart's not exactly shattered at the moment, it has no doubt been so at some time in the past. I invite you to feel a wave of sadness about your suffering, then move on to this possibility: that having a broken heart is one of the best things that can happen to you.
Why? Because it strengthens your humility, which makes you smarter. It demonstrates to you that you have a tremendous capacity for deep feelings — far more than you're normally aware of. It breaks down defense mechanisms that have desensitized you to the world's secret beauty. It may also inspire you to treat other people's hearts with greater care, making it more likely that you'll be able to create intelligent intimacy in the future.
Rob Brezney, as usual is hitting my head on the nail. I don;t know how the man does it but it seems that every time I am having a huge struggle in my life he seems to be on the pulse of my pain and deepest quandaries! Thank you Rob!


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Loyal Custom Classic Trucks readers might recollect in the January 2010 issue I promised in my resignation editorial that I'd continue on as a contributing editor with at least one story in each edition. The following tech feature on installing Chris Alston's Chassisworks new gStreet 16-inch disc brake kit for '63-87 C10 Chevrolets is the first in a series of stories where I'm able to focus entirely on producing an in-depth story without worrying about the administrative duties that come with editing a magazine - that's Ryan's new job.
Speaking of my editorial column, it was in March 2009's Zero Clearance where I announced the debut of the Super Duper Cheyenne and included a concept illustration done by Jon Bell. Well it's been exactly a year and everything is finally coming together. The bench racing Chris Alston and I did during the last couple of years regarding the build of an outrageous G-machine C10 series of Chevrolet for both street and competition has finally become a reality. The direct-fit front brake kit seen here is the very first one made, but there's been two more custom orders sold since. Although the Alston/Wilwood gStreet 16 is a "high zoot" item intended for only the most fanatical of Chevy guys with some bucks to spend, the following story contains many basic tips that apply to any disc brake install. Instead of the usual story where space limitations dictate not every step is illustrated we have focused on producing a thorough guide for your future reference.
Not in the next issue, but most likely the May issue I'll return with an update on the Super Duper Cheyenne project. There's a whole series of tech features to be published in the future. In May we'll finish up the truck's rolling chassis and then move onto bodywork and paint including how to do a mild top chop on a '73-87 C10 roof. By the time it's all said and done thanks to LMC Truck, Dakota Digital, Gearstar Performance Transmissions, and the crew at Sonoma County Street Rodz in Petaluma, California, just to mention a few, the Super Duper Cheyenne will be ready to chew up some hot muscle cars and spit 'em out.


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from R.C. Sproul Jan 17, 2011 Category: R.C. Sproul"I see men like trees, walking" (Mark 8:24). What a strange experience. Walking trees are not a normal sight for normal people. But the man who saw "walking trees" was a man in transition. He was at an intermediate stage between total blindness and full clarity of vision. He was, as we shall see, a representative of all Christians in their progress toward pleasing God. Keep Reading
Moving Out in Faith
from R.C. Sproul Jan 16, 2011 Category: R.C. SproulAbraham went to a far country at the bidding of God. He was not young and foolish. He was advanced in years, being seventy-five years old when God said to him: "Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you" (Gen. 12:1). Keep Reading
Building the Kingdom of God
from R.C. Sproul Jan 09, 2011 Category: R.C. SproulOur readiness to perform our task becomes critical when we realize the world also has a mission—to capture and assimilate the church. If the church becomes an echo of the world, the mission of the world is accomplished. Keep Reading
Confronting Paganism
from R.C. Sproul Dec 19, 2010 Category: R.C. SproulNehemiah served in a pagan government as a believer in God. He was humble and respectful to the king, but proper fear of his king did not stop him from acting to save his people. He prayed to God and made a request of the king, asking for permission to go to Jerusalem to rebuild it. He also asked for letters that he might present to various governors for safe conduct, and even a grant for building materials. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Dec 13, 2010 Category: R.C. SproulOne of the great titans of the Christian faith died this weekend. I'm speaking of Dr. Roger Nicole, who at age 95 ended his earthly pilgrimage and has now entered into the joy of his Lord. While no doubt joyful for him, it is a very heavy thing to hear, as Dr. Nicole is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the legendary voices for the Reformed faith in the past century. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Dec 12, 2010 Category: R.C. SproulWe look to Nehemiah for clues to guide our own pilgrimage in difficult times. Nehemiah was grief-stricken by the news of the condition of Jerusalem. The walls were broken down and the gates burned with fire. His first emotion over the sad loss of his heritage was grief. It was not bitterness or anger. Nehemiah wept and mourned as Jesus would later weep over the same city. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Nov 28, 2010 Category: R.C. SproulIt was the exodus of the Old Testament that earned the ancient Israelites the description of "pilgrims and sojourners." They were a semi-nomadic people who lived the life of what Harvey Cox once likened to a floating craps game. They moved from place to place. Even their church was a tent that had to be pitched and taken down repeatedly as they followed the lead of God in the wilderness. Keep Reading
Acknowledging Our Citizenship
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Cook the Book: Salina-Style Spaghettini with Cherry Tomatoes
A few months ago, when I asked Johanne Killeen, coauthor of On Top of Spaghetti, to name the best pasta meal she had eaten within the last year, she mentioned this dish. She had it in Salina, an island off the northeast coast of Sicily. Since we're cooking from this book and this dish comes so highly recommended, I thought I'd make it our Serious Recipe of the day.
Salina-Style Spaghettini with Cherry Tomatoes
- Yield:Serves 6 to 8 as a first course or 4 to 6 as a main course.
- 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 6 dozen small (8 to 10 ounces) ripe cherry tomatoes, cut in half
- Pinch or up to 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 pound dried spaghettini
- 1 plump garlic clove, peeled and minced
- 1/2 cup heaping and loosely packed fresh mint leaves
- 1 1/4 cups (about 2 1/4 ounces) freshly grated ricotta infornata or ricotta salata
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
Put the olive oil and cherry tomatoes in a large straight-sided sauté pan. Sprinkle with cayenne. Warm over medium heat until the tomatoes begin to give off some of their juice, shaking the pan every so often.
Meanwhile, generously salt the boiling water in the pot and add the spaghettini. Cook, stirring often, until al dente. Drain the pasta, reserving 1 cup of the pasta cooking water. Transfer the pasta to the sauté pan, add the garlic, and toss with the tomatoes. Add 1/3 cup of the reserved pasta water. Toss over medium heat until the water and oil emulsify. Add more water as necessary, a tablespoon at a time, until you have a nice creamy consistency and all the strands of spaghettini are well coated with sauce. Rip the mint leaves into small pieces and toss with the spaghettini. Transfer to heated bowls and top with the cheese. Serve immediately.
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2004 Volkswagen Toureg V8
10,000 Miles In A $50,000 SUV
It's ironic how much engineering has to go into a product in order for it to work in the dirt. Off-road performance is a whole other world from street performance. And dirt utility and durability are a lot harder to achieve than top-of-the-line pavement pounding. Designing a vehicle that excels in both worlds is perhaps the toughest automotive job on the planet. But it's also the most fun.
When Volkswagen and Porsche got together to create a joint venture 4x4 SUV we had high hopes for the results. We knew that Porsche engineers would bring impressive technology to the product, and we trusted that the Volkswagen team would find a way to keep it affordable for the masses. After all the dust settled, we'd say the results prove the Porsche guys won out. The Touareg feels more Porsche than the Cayenne feels VW, so prepare for a higher monthly payment. Though it is unlikely any of our testdrivers could justify owning a $50,000 Touareg, we all enjoyed driving it. Our Offroad Gray Touareg will be missed.
After an all-too-short 10,000 miles, we still marvel at the 40-valve V-8 and six-speed automatic transmission. We still rave about how solid and stable the Touareg feels. We've benefited from every adjustment the automatic air suspension made, and we fell in love with the interior feel-even if some of us didn't like the colorings. But now that we've had some extended seat time, we've also discovered that owning a high-tech off-road machine does not come without some tradeoffs.
In hindsight, the 254ci V-8 is not a torque engine. The transmission has great gear ratios, but it is very easy to get the engine out of its powerband and between gears where the Touareg feels like a dog. This truck is fast, but it's not best suited for 20- to 40-mph blasts in town. We've also fallen out of love with the GPS and stereo configuration. It's not intuitive to use, and most drivers will give up trying to figure out how to change the radio station without accidentally plotting a new course with the navigation system. The upside is that your passenger can use all of the functions of the GPS while you drive. Other OEMs lock you out of these systems above 5 mph.
|{{{2004 Volkswagen Touareg}}} V-8
|Price as tested
|Average fuel economy (mpg)
|Things we towed: Flatfenders and a fullsize {{{Jeep}}} pickup
Longest road trip 500 miles to Flagstaff, Arizona, in August
|Worked best off-road
|Worked worst off-road
| Loose gravel
(when rear locker wouldn't turn on)
|Had to go to the dealer for
|Airbag warning and low tire
pressure lights on dash.
Rear locker stopped working.
|People who drove it said
|"Feels solid"
|Would we buy a new one?
|We'd probably lease one
|Would we buy a used one?
|Maybe, but not without an
extended warranty that covered
the electronic components.