RandallMunroe

After the tense clicking of cameras, the victory hugs and Bobak Ferdowsi's awesome mohawk, I came away from Sunday night's Curiosity rover landing with a lingering rush of excitement. We're back on Mars! We're looking for the building blocks of life on another planet...

xkcd creator Randall Munroe has created elaborate charts and infographics for his webcomic before to break down everything from gravity wells to and radiation, and now he has applied the format to a very timely and political topic: money. Block by block, the comic breaks down who has it and how they spend it, from average citizens to billionaires to entire countries...

With the crisis at the nuclear plants in Fukushima, Japan still underway, there's been a lot of discussion of radiation in the news recently, particularly how dangerous it becomes at different levels. It's kind of hard to visualize as a layman, but fortunately Randall Munroe, the creator of the popular webcomic xkcd, has made it a little easier with a colorful and comparative chart he compile

Created by physicist and roboticist Randall Munroe, XKCD has earned a loyal following among fans of humor and academics, and the deeply schizophrenic. Despite being composed entirely of only the most simple stick-figures, XKCD is paradoxically inimitable webcomic...

There's a long, long history of "xkcd" fans reenacting the webcomic, but rarely by such high profile nerdlebrities as Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, and Cory Doctorow, not to mention "Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Google Zurich, Hank Green, MC Frontalot, Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Mr. To...

If you don't know what "xkcd" is, then welcome to the internet; you must be new. The spectacularly popular strip about "romance, sarcasm, math and language, quite simply dominates the world of webcomics, scoring up to 70 million page views in a month...

Randall Munroe, the creator of the hilarious, has got peeing down to a science. Literally. On the 'xkcd' blog, Munroe explained the International Choice of Urinal Protocol -- e.g. how guys pick which urinal to use in a bathroom-- and broke it down for his readers with formulas, charts, and graphs...