Pages Tagged “xkcd”
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- DST Google Photos Fail
Google Photos is overcompensating for the Daylight Saving Time switch on yesterday’s pictures. Photos taken at 6:00pm are labeled as 7:00pm. Everything from this summer/early fall (which might as well have been summer) is off, in the app anyway (the website shows the right time in PDT), which at least makes more sense than if […]
- Wrong Number (Email Edition)
Have you ever abandoned an email address? Did you make sure everyone switched to your new one? If your old provider has reissued the address to someone new, your old contacts could still be sending mail to someone else with your personal information. This shouldn’t be a surprise, but InformationWeek reports that Yahoo! users who’ve […]
- File Transfer
I just spent too long troubleshooting a failed file transfer by email. Appropriately enough, it turns out this cartoon is the top search result for “file transfer.”
- A matter of perspective
XKCD’s Umwelt art project is the best use of browser-sniffing I’ve ever seen.
- Marketing-Free!
This XKCD comic reminds me of the “uranium-free pizza” joke from some scouting event way back when.
- Social Side of Swine Flu
Sad, but true: XKCD tackles the social component of swine flu. Update: Things haven’t changed much in the Covid era, have they?