• Today's xkcd

    From Mark Jackson@mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu to rec.arts.comics.strips on Tue Oct 7 11:46:20 2025
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    https://xkcd.com/3151/

    Is the fact that today's comic doesn't fit into the usual page space
    part of the joke?
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  • From ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan@tednolan to rec.arts.comics.strips on Tue Oct 7 15:57:13 2025
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    In article <mkkqudFikihU2@mid.individual.net>,
    Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
    https://xkcd.com/3151/

    Is the fact that today's comic doesn't fit into the usual page space
    part of the joke?


    I don't think there is a "usual page space" for XKCD.

    I mean, hit the "Prev" button a few times, and you will get all sorts
    of stuff.
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  • From Mark Jackson@mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu to rec.arts.comics.strips on Tue Oct 7 13:19:13 2025
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    On 10/7/2025 11:57 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <mkkqudFikihU2@mid.individual.net>,
    Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
    https://xkcd.com/3151/

    Is the fact that today's comic doesn't fit into the usual page space
    part of the joke?


    I don't think there is a "usual page space" for XKCD.

    I mean, hit the "Prev" button a few times, and you will get all sorts
    of stuff.

    Considerable variation in height and width, yes, but (at least within
    memory) they all fit within the white box-with-rounded-corners (middleContainer in the CSS). When I wrote the comic was about twice as
    large as it is now, extending out of the box (and off my screen) to the
    right.

    It's now a "normal" size, so not part of the joke. Must have cut after measuring again.
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    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
    - Mark Twain
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  • From Joy Beeson@jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid to rec.arts.comics.strips on Tue Oct 7 22:34:43 2025
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    On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 13:19:13 -0400, Mark Jackson
    <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

    On 10/7/2025 11:57 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <mkkqudFikihU2@mid.individual.net>,
    Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
    https://xkcd.com/3151/

    Is the fact that today's comic doesn't fit into the usual page space
    part of the joke?


    I don't think there is a "usual page space" for XKCD.

    I mean, hit the "Prev" button a few times, and you will get all sorts
    of stuff.

    Considerable variation in height and width, yes, but (at least within memory) they all fit within the white box-with-rounded-corners (middleContainer in the CSS). When I wrote the comic was about twice as large as it is now, extending out of the box (and off my screen) to the right.

    It's now a "normal" size, so not part of the joke. Must have cut after measuring again.

    This was discussed extensively at https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3151:_Window_Screen
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