More reasons to love XKCD

[prog]

* The ambiguity of this comic:

Slashdorks will read it and be like "rofl i deal with idiots like this at work every damn day, but they'd fire me if I hung up on them for real", even though I'm fairly confident that's not the joke. Something for everyone!

* The comic is hand-lettered. I have probably already mentioned this as a reason I like the comic, but I'll say it again. Hand-lettering makes any comic look about ten times better to me. (And you could make a "zero times ten" wisecrack here, but I would retort that there is a basic charm to the art. Very basic, sure, but still.)

* There are no comments or ratings or anything attached to the comic. Everyone likes getting comments, and I'd understand if he wanted to have comments so that every comic would have an ever-growing beard of public "LOL ^^;" messages attached, but I wouldn't like it.

* The cartoonist invites and even encourages direct linking to the cartoon images, even printing the necessary HTML code beside each one. That's great.

Comments

[prog.livejournal.com]

Argh. Minutes after writing my first reply to this I learned that (a) there's been a newsworthy accident in a friend's family and (b) the newspaper that covered it apparently allows comments on every single article it puts on-line. So first came the WHAT EVER HAPPPENED TO COMON SENSE??!! people and then came the people insisting that this showed why state taxes ought to be abolished. And then lots of comments calling them all idiots and offering sympathy, but really, nothing was gained by any of them being there.