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June 29th, 2008 · 9 Comments

The latest xkcd is a great homage to a Discovery Channel commercial that pays homage to a classic campfire song. However, there are a lot of internal references to the comic that a lot of people may not understand. So, because the comics are released under a Creative Commons license, I’m able to cut apart the panels and have each frame of the comic link to the original comic that it’s referencing.

Thanks to Photobucket for the image hosting, and xkcd forum members hideki101, Ansible, VHBT, aco, and Random832 for making the references far, far easier to find.

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9 responses so far ↓

1 sunny beach // Jun 29, 2008 at 5:24 pm

This IS very helpful!

Dugg.
2 valentino // Jun 29, 2008 at 8:17 pm

i think “Barack Me, Obamadeus” ought to be linked to something more relevant to it. perhaps this: http://www.royalworkhorse.com/.
or was the comic you linked it to serving the dual purpose of filling the place with something somewhat relevant and saying that a citation is needed?
3 Cochese // Jun 29, 2008 at 8:45 pm

@valentino I tried to keep as many of the links as I could within the xkcd comics, and that one was as close as I could find. I’m totally not clever enough to have the [citation needed] tag be a meta reference for the fact that I need a citation for it.

Thanks for the link, though. I’m real tempted to buy one and wear it around my extremely Republican (I refuse to say conservative because he’s anything but) coworker just to piss him off.
4 Travis // Jun 30, 2008 at 1:44 am

I went ahead and used the cut-up images to create a post on the xkcd fora using your links… hope you don’t mind!
5 Stacy // Jun 30, 2008 at 8:39 am

Thanks for that.
6 Boob Biter // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:19 am

this sucks…
7 Dan // Aug 10, 2008 at 8:55 pm

My physics teacher gave us this: http://xkcd.com/135/ problem as extra credit on one of our tests because some student sent him the link. I recognized it from xkcd and managed to solve it after quite a bit too much thinking.
8 Dan // Aug 10, 2008 at 8:57 pm

If I could edit that I’d say this set of problems…
9 Dwindle // Aug 13, 2008 at 10:53 am

Excellent work. I would be remiss to ignore the fact that transistors and resistors are wildly different things.

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