xkcd now actively smartifying teh interwebs

Dan 20 Jan, 2008 at 3:44am ET Article published in Tech

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   20 Jan 2008 ~ 4:24am shwaip after reading the xkcd forums, i get the feeling that a lot of the readers are people who are halfway through an engineering/computer science degree that feel that they are significantly superior to everyone, only because they know that e^(I pi) = -1.
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   20 Jan 2008 ~ 2:21pm primesuspect xkcd of 2008 is the slashdot of 1999.
   
   That's not to say I don't love the comic. I love the comic. But I don't like the attitude that you have to be smart and exactly like them in order to be funny. We're funny and smart, but we'd probably get into a fistfight with a group of guys like that.
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   20 Jan 2008 ~ 2:35pm Thrax We would crush them.
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   20 Jan 2008 ~ 3:17pm primesuspect I think the xkcd life and The Icrontic Life are horrendously different animals
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   20 Jan 2008 ~ 3:44pm shwaip

   primesuspect wrote:

   xkcd of 2008 is the slashdot of 1999.
   
   That's not to say I don't love the comic. I love the comic. But I don't like the attitude that you have to be smart and exactly like them in order to be funny. We're funny and smart, but we'd probably get into a fistfight with a group of guys like that.

   
   it's not even that they're especially smart. They've taken a few classes in [whatever] and now they feel like they're significantly smarter than the world in everything, but really it's trivial stuff in the big picture, either as far as their life will go, or compared to the scope of what someone else knows.