2013 books, mid-February: Randall Munroe

[melita66]

After hearing on Andrew Wheeler's blog that there was a new Pearls before Swine treasury (the treasuries have some commentary by Pastis), and hunting it down on Amazon, I found that Randall Munroe had released a first xkcd collection. xkcd is a geek's web comic. He's a Physics graduate who did some doodling and started posting them several years ago. Here's one that tickled my fancy in the collection (if it doesn't show up, try http://xkcd.com/257/):



And, there's this one (under the cut) that was a great hit at work. People kept asking for weeks if I'd seen it (my specialty is map projections). If the cut doesn't work: http://xkcd.com/977/