Well, it’s Friday. We made it to the weekend. So here’s a nice Venn diagram from Indexed that captures that guy we all know.
Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.
Asshole
Tag: just for fun
James Webb
It’s cool. In the darkness of space.
We made it to the end of the week, a big week for space news.
So with that, enjoy this illustration from xkcd about the James Webb Space Telescope.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
The Observation Table
We made it to the end of yet another week. Before the weekend begins for most of my audience—though for my UK readers, enjoy the extended bank holiday and God save the Queen—I wanted to take a look at a graphic from xkcd that shows one can use different types of scopes to make different types of observations.
I’m constantly thinking about getting a record player. But if I do, maybe I’ll just start calling it my radiogyroscope.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Serfs Up, Bro
Now get him into the fields.
Well that was a week. But at least we made it to Friday and for my American readers and myself this weekend and its bank holiday on Monday, Memorial Day, mark the unofficial beginning of summer. So thanks to Indexed, it’s time to head down to the beach and hang ten (serfs).
Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.
Hey, Cousin!
As many of my long-time readers know, I count genealogy as one of my hobbies. A few weeks ago for Orthodox Easter I travelled up to the hometown of my late grandfather. There I get to see people to whom I’m related as many of us can point to ancestors from the same few villages in a small geographic cluster in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia and Poland. In other words, we’re all cousins.
But as xkcd shows, so are we all. And that means you too, cousin.
Happy weekend, cuz.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Off the Deep End
Summer rapidly approaches. As does this weekend. Combining those two elements, we can thank xkcd for a wonderful explainer about how the deep ends of pools form.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Madagascar
Well we made it through the week. Yesterday we looked at plate tectonics and the future shape of the world. So today it’s time to look at a map recently made by xkcd. Specifically it looks at the world through the lens of Madagascar.
Greenland isn’t as big as it looks on Google Maps. So this piece fixes that by placing Madagascar in its place.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Party Time
It’s the end of the week and as we try to keep it light, no Ukraine post today. Instead, we turn to xkcd for a helpful guide of how to plan parties. It’s a simple chart.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Sports and Games
Well that was a week. Let’s try to stay on the lighter side this Friday. Several weeks ago I was debating with several people about the difference between a game and a sport. I decided that the best way to try and capture our conversation was with a Venn diagram.
So in the interest of furthering that conversation, I’ve digitised that sketch and am presenting it here for everyone else to see and, if they want, comment upon.
Hopefully this weekend and next week are a bit calmer.
Credit for the piece is mine.
Be Ambitious
Well it’s Friday. Congratulations on making it to the weekend. I often spend my weekends working on personal projects, because I have goals and things I’m trying to do. In other words, I have ambitions. That’s why this piece from Indexed was so funny. One cannot go wrong with a Venn diagram.
Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.