The first one has been posted somewhere else. The second one - I'd guess it wasn't drawn by Randall; to me it looks more like someone making a joke out of his awesomeness. Of course, I can't vouch for that, but you could ask him on IRC or by email.

This is a placeholder until I think of something more creative to put here.

Robin S wrote:The first one has been posted somewhere else. The second one - I'd guess it wasn't drawn by Randall; to me it looks more like someone making a joke out of his awesomeness. Of course, I can't vouch for that, but you could ask him on IRC or by email.

You mean that the TOP one is by Jeff Rowland of overcompensating and a few other webcomics and that the BOTTOM one is a guest follow-up by Randall himself, right?

beaker wrote:(I tried to find the alt text... but there is none. unfortunate)

(by the way, HI! I never had anything to contribute and I just registered because I finally had something to share besides the epic love for the humor in this community)

Alt text is "Gerdy fetch my stick figure spray."

Robin S wrote:Hmm... I don't know. It just doesn't strike me as Randall's style to have his in-comic persona "hack the internet". I agree it looks a lot like his drawing / writing, though.

overcompensating.com wrote:Friday, February 15, 2008 - 12:00 AMToday's guest comic comes to you from a grown man with a ball pit, Randall Munroe. We will be together at the RoflCon at the end of April or whatever.

The thing to remember about Spoffin is that he's playing by rules no one else understands

kimba665 wrote:I love this kind of stuff! In this case, it's one obscure webcomic referencing another obscure webcomic. This is the stuff private jokes are made of!!

I don't think XKCD is that obscure (at least as far as webcomics go). It was making the front page of Reddit there for a while until I lost interest in Reddit. And according to http://www.trendsspotting.com/blog/?p=308 its online readership is bigger than Dilbert.

I was a bit disappointed to see that Randall Munroe didn't re-draw T-Rex and co. in his own style like the other guest artists did, but the comic was pretty good and I thought Ryan North's title text was especially funny.

This is an unfinished strip that Randall has apparently done for Palm, Inc. as part of a promotion for an announcement they're going to make at the CES in Las Vegas. The person who supplies the best punch line wins a free trip: http://www.palm.com/celebrate/. Who better to come up with one than the readers of this forum?

(Mods - sorry about the double-post. I posted this in "News" first, but then I thought that the strip itself ought to appear here. Please feel free to remove either thread if you think it's redundant.)

Knowing MIT hackers (one of whom is a very good friend), they'll go about doing just that. *shakes head* Randall, don't you understand that you're a self-fulfilling prophet?

"Gerry, I'm a woman! We don't say what we WANT! But we reserve the right to get pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating! And not a little bit scary." - Lydia, Sliding Doors (1998)

I want to be teh smart and go to teh MIT...and get six hours of sleep in the course of a school year. So far the closest I've come is modeling for an MIT photography class. I think it should help the application a little.

"She’s a free spirit, a wind-rider, she’s at one with nature, and walks with the kodama eidolons”

"Gerry, I'm a woman! We don't say what we WANT! But we reserve the right to get pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating! And not a little bit scary." - Lydia, Sliding Doors (1998)

RanCorp wrote:Where did you see / find that? When I refresh the xkcd main page, I still see Cover-Up.

RanCorp

MIT applicants spoofed the admissions website as a prefrosh hack - I think Randall actually did the comic though.

I know that Randall actually did the comic.

I dreamed that Randall actually did the comic.

"Gerry, I'm a woman! We don't say what we WANT! But we reserve the right to get pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating! And not a little bit scary." - Lydia, Sliding Doors (1998)