Web comic xkcd is sporting a fresh redesign Monday morning, paying tribute to the free web-hosting service GeoCities. Yahoo, which bought GeoCities in 1999 for $3.5 billion dollars, is shutting down ...

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 ...

XKCD has a web cartoon making the rounds that nicely summarizes 22,000 years of climate and human history. One important point: As the last ice age ended and temperatures heated up, humans did better ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. What’s the most stupidly ambitious aspect of ‘XKCD: Volume 0,’ the book ...

[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, ...

Excerpt from “What If?” by Randall Munroe to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on Sept. 2, 2014. Copyright 2014 by xkcd Inc. Used by permission of the ...

Review: Randall Munroe's third book gives hilariously edifying answers to questions like how to take a selfie, catch a drone, play the piano and win an election. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

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Last night, xkcd creator Randall Munroe celebrated the release of his first book by answering fan questions about everything from writing about his sex life to explaining his fame to non-geeks to how ...

For more than a decade, Randall Munroe’s web comic xkcd came with a disclaimer attached: Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor ...