[Randall Munroe] certainly understands the power of graphical representation of data. The humorous plots in his xkcd webcomic are one of the favorite parts for many readers. Their distinctive, ...

This is an initial python scripting approach to generate nice wallpapers from xkcd (All credits to Randall Munroe). It is intended to be used on linux and uses cairo for drawing the comics and pango ...

The strip object can be initialized like so: Strip = pykcd.XKCDStrip(strip_number) The full berth of properties can be found using the help function. Here's a sampling. Alt text In [1]: ...

Every once in a while, I think about velociraptors. Often the first thing that comes to mind is this xkcd comic with 3 velociraptor homework questions. The first question says: The velociraptor spots ...

I believe in charts. A good chart can stick an important fact into your mind and keep it there. And some of the best come from Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd. Now you can turn any chart into an xkcd ...