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Presented minus our usual glib commentary: today’s XKCD comic. Make a tea, and prepare yourself for spending far too long clicking and dragging your way through it. Then, click on over below the jump here, and let’s talk about how it made you feel. [XKCD]
How Does It Feel to Fly In the Boeing Dreamliner?
Haptic Weather Forecaster Lets You Feel Tomorrow's Temperature
New Artificial Electric Skin Will Let Robots Feel for Real
I saw XKCD this morning and enjoyed every second of scrolling. Genius stuff.
Also, a prize for whoever spots the hot air balloon.
A life?
My life has been enriched, and thus I have no need for another. Also, I’m horribly bored at work, and this beats reading the Guardian.
There’s two. And space whales.
SPACE WHALES? *returns to XKCD*
Also, a jellyfish (not a yellow warbler).
‘Houston, we have a problem’
‘That’s a negative, Apollo. There are no problems – Only Opportunities’
http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/9n2e.png
Not sure how you found the hot air balloon but not the whales by the way. Guess there are a lot of paths around this place.
There really are. The problem with scrolling around in the sky is that one can’t really tell whether one is making any progress or has hit the edge of the screen…
It’s slightly ludicrous. I mean, come on. The git’s given his audience, made up of geeks and nerds, who are rather prone to obsessive behaviour already, a bloody huge canvas to click and scroll around on. This is going to destroy productivity today for a lot of people.
I’m waiting for the forums to give me a single image.
This is going to be the worst thing for the economy since Google turned its homepage into Pac-Man.
As you wish.. http://edc.srvs.us/1110/
This is a bit easier to scroll around in http://edc.srvs.us/1110-half/
Curses!!! I am now shaking my right wrist due to spasms, and no one around here is buying the actual reason for it!
So alone in my abyss of despair, introspection and solitude are the only escapes from this pain. Across the many rolling hills of life lay the destitute moments that define failure. This vessel is scarred ;it is but a wasteland of poverty and angst.
I love you, Tokes.
Beautiful.
now there’s something I didn’t expect to read on Giz today.
Tyre Swing!?!?!!!
Help I’m trapped in the Mario Caves!
Perks for X-Wing silhouette.
There’s two of those, too
Yep, I’ve been there. Had to reload to get out.
just spent 30min clicking and dragging round that place! Someone got a link to the full image?
Et voila!
Erm, pressed “enter” too soon. Here you go: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/72514/public–908234-9023cn1r1rf13cnrrn81/http—iclub.site40.net-xkcd.html%20(20120919).pdf
Kat, that DB link doesn’t work. I found another I linked below somewhere.
This is the best (and easiest) one I found!
http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/
It’s made up of smaller images linked together in a map. Mess around with the N/S/E/W and numbers in the PNG name and you can see what I mean..
http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/12s11w.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/8n2w.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/12s17w.png
The only feeling beyond despair and the ever-mounting concerns of life “running out” (my tongue was kind of in-cheek while I wrote that sentence segment…honest), was the overriding sense of anxiety as I scrolled deeper / further right; thinking “I MUST SEE EVERY LAST SCRAP OF THIS.” It was a feeling akin to what I felt as a kid, reading those Choose Your Own Adventure novels — I wanted to read EVERYTHING, but couldn’t.
What a life. (Kill me now?)
Did you find the mineshaft? That kept me occupied for a good fifteen minutes…
Oh, and you can also scroll left from the start. And down, and up. Happy hunting.
Hang on. HANG ON. Scroll left?! AAAAAARGH *runs for the hills*
Hahahaha
That was the first direction I went….
I used to put a tick on every page i’d read to make sure i had done all the options, it’s the same with Guardian Heroes on the Saturn, BloodBank & i spent hours as kids, making sure we had followed every path of the story.
Fighting Fantasy. Always keep a finger in the page you just left.
I felt very uneasy knowing I could have missed something.
I should get checked out shouldn’t I?
The link from Igsey above is really good to see if you got it all.
Spoiler Alert!!
This link shows an overview of most of it….
http://i.imgur.com/oVTiU.png
This one lets you click to view individual tiles
http://static.surrealize.net/xkcd/
Dammit, on my MBP, no MOuse, not used a mouse for about 5 yrs now, trackpad is just no good for the kind of ClickDragging this needs!
There was one specific tile that actually made me quite sad:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/12s11w.png
It’s purely because of the very lonely and lost person sitting cradling herself. XKCD excels at this sort of thing.
That was my favourite tile, but I didn’t see it as being lonely.
It made me think of Calvin and Hobbes, the way Calvin delights in being in these natural uninhabited places, with just his (pet) stuffed tiger for company. I’m thinking of making it my desktop background.
My first move was left, and up the tower, and then DOWN the tower. I hoped it had been stitched around so that i’d end up looping back on myself. So i did the mines (missing a link to the mario-area somehow, so stayed left) and got all the way to the left wall. Nearly cried.
So I cycled back to the beginning, and went right, on another journey. Some people on his forums made a good point though; the whole thing is about life being a challenge to see it all, so I stuck to the scrolling. now im just looking for things i may have missed in the big image.
Randall might however have a bit too much time on his hands.
One thing I will say though is I counted the scrolls from being at the underground pool with the fish, and scrolled down about 30 strokes, and went back up, took the same amount of time. There could be MORE down in that blackness nobody has seen yet 0.o
How does it make me feel? No different then when I started. This is not the fault of the image, which is impressive, but of the general bleakness of my mood.
Impressed by people who can draw.
Desire, excitement, anticipation, appreciation….
The list of positive superlatives knows no bounds, yet all outweighed by the sheer frustration of trying to view even the complete world (http://static.surrealize.net/xkcd/) on a 1280×800 display with only a trackpad!
Some of the guys worked it out. If you scale it from the height of an average person, it goes 3km and 5km in either direction!
Methinks he has too much time on his hands….
sad.
Joyous. It reminds me that if I bothered putting down the gadgetry for a while there’s a whole world out there waiting to be explored, and infinity beyond that. Even within the confines of this infinitesimally tiny rock, there is quite literally something for everyone.
it was incredible, i was scrolling for about 30 minutes and then i gave up. it’s simply immense.
the spaceship, the hot air balloon, the creeper..
.. it made me feel bad to be sat inside looking at all these wonders on a screen when it described perfectly how much there is out there i should be looking at
Surely you’ve found this by now:
http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/#7/1.005/0.005
Just heard from Justin Shelton: Day 4 of scrolling: Food is out. Water reserves low. There is talk of mutiny if things remain as they are. After minutes of deliberation, we decided Jeff would make a good meal. Jeff is unaware why morale is up but he’s excited.