Links: xkcd

Ever have a link that's been in your "favorites" bar for a long time but hasn't made it onto the blog sidebar because of sheer neglect? xkcd is one of those - it's a webcomic by Randall Munroe that runs three times a week.

Since Munroe has a physics degree and programmed with NASA before he started writing the strip, xkcd has its fair share of geek-related humor. Some strips are silly, some are moving, and some, like this comparison of the gravity wells of the bodies in the solar system, are just plain cool:


Munroe's blog is good, too. Here's an entertaining post discussing the unwritten rules followed in men's bathrooms everywhere: never crowd someone who's taking a leak (even more true with a trough-type urinal).