xkcd profiled at the NYT
FOR a certain subset of Internet users, “Sudo make me a sandwich” may as well be “Take my wife … please.”
Perhaps some explanation is in order. Before giving up the goods, however, we should heed the warning of Randall Munroe, the 23-year-old creator of xkcd, a hugely popular online comic strip (at least among computer programmers) where the sandwich line appeared. Mr. Munroe believes that analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog — it can be done, but the frog dies.
Still, he plays along, explaining that “sudo” is a command in the Unix operating system that temporarily grants godlike powers: “The humor comes from people who have encountered typing a command and having the computer say ‘No,’ and they say, ‘Oh, yeah, sudo says,’ and the computer does it. Kind of like ‘Simon says.’ ”
by Hector Lima, Writer; Irapuan Luiz, Artist, Colorist; Michelle Fiorucci, Letterer, Colorist
GAH! eu amo XKCD. levei ate um susto quando entrei aqui e vi a ultima tira o.O
Comment by Edu Diniz — May 27, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
tb curto, apesar de às vezes as piadas serem geeks demais pra eu entender haha
Comment by Hector — May 27, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
cada episodio de xkcd me rende umas 2 horas de wikipedia =/
Comment by Edu Diniz — May 31, 2008 @ 10:37 pm