XKCD

[cynickalone.livejournal.com]

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[ron_newman]

My officemate e-mailed me that link today, with subject line "What have you been doing on google?"

[blunderblunder.livejournal.com]

Dude, don't even know how many raptors are around in these parts. Hoverboards, sadly, are a bit scarcer.

[myselftheliar.livejournal.com]

Are we talking regular, run of the mill hoverboards here, or Back to the Future II hoverboards?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I did a "Raptors on Hoverboards" google search as soon as I saw that, just to bring up the numbers.

(The author of xkcd lives around here, in case anyone isn't familiar with the comic.)

[ron_newman]

Remember this last September?

[cynickalone.livejournal.com]

yea, MIT kid.

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's Randall Monroe's fault... He lives here, and is obsessed with both Raptors and hoverboards...

I'm a LITTLE surprised he isn't part of some LJ community... but I think that we'd all be fan-boy-ing and fan-girl-ing him to death...

[ron_newman]

xkcd exists but isn't a member of davis_square or any other geographically-based LJ community.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Raptors? Hoverboards?

Wish I had that 30 seconds of my life back.

[blunderblunder.livejournal.com]

he's not, actually. you'd think, though, right?

[spatch]

They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back?

it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids. they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truely sorry for your lots

[diego001.livejournal.com]

I'd buy that for a dollar.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

if you hover your mouse over the comics, there are secret messages, by the way

[ron_newman]

But you have to go back to the original xkcd page for that, because the alt text didn't copy over to LJ. Also, my Firefox truncates that text ;-(

[richips.livejournal.com]

you can write it in with alt or title text.
it's usually the best part too.

[richips.livejournal.com]

Raptors and the obsession therewith have spread all over.

maybe he has sock puppet accounts?
and yeah, serious swooning going on. and wanting to go play in his ball pit.

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

If you are going to take drugs in the middle of the day, you have to bring enough to share with everyone.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Then clearly you need to upgrade to a newer version of firefox.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

nah... In fact he moved here only about a year ago. On the other hand he likes the fact that he can relate to people around here.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

oh yes yes, that's what i meant!

[spatch]

It's always drugs o'clock somewhere.



Okay, I can't believe I just wrote that.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

maybe it's his fault i found a goddamn raptor in my apartment while cleaning last week. i have to be so wary every time i walk through my dining room now.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

The Firefox plugin "Long Titles" fixes the problem with truncated alt-text.

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Especially in the Altered State of Druggachusetts!

[richips.livejournal.com]

reading this felt a lot like reading Faulkner.

[richips.livejournal.com]

how does one who is ignorant make this happen? assistance appreciated.

so...

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

(That's the complete quote for what the Wasilla search query is referencing.)

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

Really, the best way is to upgrade to firefox 3. Firefox 2 is (as of Dec. 18) no longer getting security updates, so you wanna anyway.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

If you don't want to upgrade to Firefox 3 (which is the easiest way, as mattdm_org said), just go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1715 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1715) and follow the instructions.

[etana.livejournal.com]

IF you have a mac - turn on voice over and tab over to the image. Screen readers (freebie easy one being VO on a mac) read the alt tags (which is why WCAG 2 requires/politely requests that all sites include alt tags) and truncated tags.
My fandom exists in tags.

[richips.livejournal.com]

Thank you, i just did so.

[richips.livejournal.com]

Thank you, i ended up upgrading to Furefox 3. whooaa new things.

[richips.livejournal.com]

i have a PC but thank you!

[aki.livejournal.com]

This hover-over text (http://xkcd.com/253/) is from his first(?) visit to look for an apartment. IIRC, he also posted links to maps of Inman Square, the Riverway/Jamaicaway/Hellmouth intersection up by Longwood, and the Storrow/Mem Dr I-93 ramp.

Well, Somerville IS an odd place...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Look at this ad on craigslist:

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Reply to: xxxxxxx
Date: 2008-12-21, 10:59AM EST

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[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

It's the Altered Commonwealth of Druggachusetts. ;)

Re: Well, Somerville IS an odd place...

[wombatbanana.livejournal.com]

A 52-foot TV! Sweet! Always wanted to play CoD on a jumbotron.

Re: Well, Somerville IS an odd place...

[wombatbanana.livejournal.com]

(Not as good as a 2000" TV (http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/frankstwothousandinchtv.html), of course.)