[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, ...

Randall Munroe's webcomic xkcd casts an optimistic eye on the geek lifestyle. * Photo: Courtesy of Adrianne Mathiowetz * A geek with a paper cut does not bleed CH3, and every nerd has a heart lodged ...

Geek humor and the web go together like airline jokes and comedy clubs. One of the first tech-themed comics, NetBoy, debuted in 1994 and featured stick figures commenting on Internet culture. Nineteen ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was speaking yesterday to a teacher whose British accent is pronounced when he mentioned Monty Python in passing. “Who doesn’t like Monty Python,” I said. And his sour expression reminded me that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The forums of the XKCD webcomic created by Randall Munroe in 2005 are currently offline after being impacted by a data breach which exposed the information of 561,991 users on July 1. The compromised ...

What if you took a dip in a nuclear reactor’s storage pool, where discarded fuel is kept for years until it’s not so radioactive anymore? Could you survive? This is the kind of random question Randall ...