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Why do we love XKCD?

This is why we love XKCD. I'm not reproducing today's cartoon here cos it's not really fair on clickmorality, but link over and read the strip yourself by clicking here. To be clear on this, I've also had all the thoughts (and the mouseover message) shown but have never been able to express them as eloquently.

XKCD understands

Another superlative strip from XKCD today. You really should have this site on your RSS by now because of a thousand reasons. 

we heart XKCD

I waited a week before pasting this edition of XKCD here because I don't want to steal thunder (there are two newer strips on site now). But this is so very good.

click here for original page (bigger image too)

Spreading a little happiness on the Sunday before Christmas. Here's the link to the front page of XKCD, use it early and often.

we definitely heart XKCD

Check out today's XKCD on this link right here, entitled "Scary". It's a four box strip and here's how it starts:

I've blanked out the other three boxes because I want XKCD to get your click and don't want to steal the thunder. But it's wonderful, trust me. Click through here.

I heart XKCD

The world's finest webcomic is linked down there on the bottom right, but here's a headsup on the last three editions cos they're all sublime:

Here's today's..

...but please check out Tech Support Cheat Sheet and the math gag called Newton and Leibniz, both from this week. Wonderfully wonderful.

Toldya XKCD was good

Just to show you one example of what you've been missing, here's a new one from my fave webcomic site, XKCD.

Put it on your list (and the 'random' button will keep you amused for hours).

Swine Flu: I heart XKCD

The link to cartoon strip people XKCD has been down there on the right for a while. Go today (here's the link) and check out this pearl* in situ.

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UPDATE: More porky sniffly fun here, as sent in by kind reader MM

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DES MOINES, IA - As the cases of Swine Flu continue to multiply around the globe, a parallel outbreak of Swine Flew is plaguing farmers and rural residents throughout the U.S.

Iowa hog farmer David Lyons described the startling phenomena. "I came out of the house about six in the morning, and I saw three of my sows floating up in the air. They'd grown wings overnight and were flying?like really big birds. I was in such a state of shock I couldn't move, but then they just flew off over that cornfield and that's the last I seen of them."

Experiences similar to Lyons' have been reported by dozens of other hog farmers throughout the Midwest.

"Half of my hogs flew off yesterday to God-knows-where," said Ted Zigler, a Kansas hog producer. "If this keeps up, I'm going to go broke. I'll have to switch to growing Tofu."

Like so many others, Lisa Conklin of rural Wisconsin said she never thought she'd see the day when pigs could fly. "I always used to say, 'Yeah, that'll happen when pigs fly. Now they are."

Conklin expressed a concern raised by many Americans since the onset of Swine Flew. "Let's just pray that monkey's don't start flying out of our asses."

UPDATE: I've just found out the origins of the above thanks to the author comment below. The author is John Andreini and he deserves kudos (for the record I was sent the text as stands above in a mail with no link). Here's the clicky linky to clickylink to get to John's blog.

*pearls before swine?