xkcd – Page 2 – Moe Lane

I hadn’t realized Randall Munroe was a CS Lewis fan.

Moe Lane

PS: The forums seem to think that this is The Magician’s Nephew reference, too.

My immediately revolted, but increasingly bemused, reaction to this @xkcd comic.

There are two ways to look at this webcomic. Continue reading My immediately revolted, but increasingly bemused, reaction to this @xkcd comic.

This xkcd comic counsels against anthropomorphizing nature.

Because, really: by any standard of sentient-species morality and/or ethics nature is just plain awful.

Mind you, this guy is (reluctantly) calling BS on the XKCD strip in question. He says that the strip anthropomorphizes science, instead; and as God is my witness I didn’t see that until after I wrote the title to my post.

Moe Lane

Ayup, we have.

Which is a shame.

I would have liked to have seen Bigfoot. I enjoy cryptozoology: it’s refreshingly free of conspiracy theories about international Jewish plots.

Oh dear God this is funny.

Click through: I refuse to spoil the joke. Then again, it’s xkcd, so you’ve probably already read it. And laughed.

Obligatory xkcd comic.

For the life of me, I don’t get why Randall Munroe visibly does not care if he gets hotlinked. Isn’t that, like, rude or something? I just can’t make myself do it.

Still: this is a very good point.

One additional wrinkle to xkcd’s latest “What If…”

…they’re fairly sure that Jesus was not actually born on December 25th. In all probability, shepherds wouldn’t have had flocks out in the fields at that time of year.

Moe Lane

PS: Apparently, the question of whether or not the ancient Romans had a religious holiday on December 25, and whether it was or was not a Mithraic one, is a matter of some dispute that has not quite reached the level of ‘academics fighting each other with knives.’ You learn something new every day…

#rsrh xkcd manages a genuinely nonpartisan political strip…

…that’s exceedingly interesting, and neatly deflates the “Well, Candidate X can’t win because of [insert random bit of historical trivia here]” arguments that we get a lot. Well-played, although there’s a typo for 1800 and the forums are right: 1996 IS a slight stretch. Forgivable, to be sure.