![]() The book takes the conceit demonstrated in the " Up-Goer Five" comic-labeling a diagram of a complex machine using only first thousand most-common English words-and goes nuts with it, breaking out dozens of different drawings with a similar labeling style. Munroe draws and releases xkcd under Creative Commons licensing, and makes the majority of his income these days from xkcd merchandise-like his new book, Thing Explainer, which Munroe is currently promoting. It's rare for Ars to stop by a workplace to interview a source where there aren't xkcd comic strips festooning the walls (the " sudo make me a sandwich" comic is particularly popular among sysadmins), and discussion threads on forums across the Internet will frequently include a "relevant xkcd" link to emphasize or summarize a particular point with a comic on the topic. ![]() ![]() HOUSTON-I'd guess that the majority of Ars readers are familiar with xkcd, the stick-figure Web comic drawn by former NASA contractor and engineer (and now Hugo award winner) Randall Munroe. ![]()
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