xkcd

xkcd is an awesome webcomic. For those of you who don't know it, check it out: http://www.xkcd.com/

Here are some of the best ones, with my comments below each one:

I've tried this once (I increased the probability tenfold by asking for a number between 1 and 10 instead of 1 and 100), and it didn't work. I will try it on different people for a while until it works.

When I see one of those things, I always want to point out that they have actually written in the space already just by telling us not to. Hypocrisy!

Even I think those instructions on test papers are too pedantic, and I'm so pedantic I could be elected President of the Pedantic Party.

It is comics like this that make me wish I were better with computers.

Yes, I noticed. As I have very few friends within a 300-mile radius, and live in a boring little village where all three of the shops close at 9pm and there is absolutely nothing else to do, I am spending my free time reading a good book. Problem with that? No? Good.

"Conversation" is a very long word. How do you spell it? Haha, you're wrong! It's "I-T"!

I have searched for "how to perform a Brazilian voodoo exorcism", just in the interest of science. The Mediator books don't go into detail. (If you're interested, nothing relevant came up on the first page of the Google search results, so I assume nobody has ever thought to publish that information on the internet. Why, it's a tragedy!)

I wish I had that power so I could pwn the next person who comes up to me and is all, "Do you have Twitter? Why not? It's fun. You can do such-and-such..." Sorry, but I stand by what I always say: the only time I ever seem to hear these sites mentioned in conversation is in the context of "someone did something so horrible today on MSN/Facebook/Twitter..." I do not have Twitter for the same reason I do not choose to go on holiday to Helmand province.

I've tried this. I said to my mother, "Mum, this pen's photoshopped," and she asked me what the hell "photoshopped" means. Yeah, my mother isn't exactly knowledgable about technology.

I've never actually ran up the down escalator. I'm paranoid enough when using the escalators properly - I always worry that I'll step on the crack between two steps, and when one moves up and one moves down, I'll fall over. Maybe this is where the "don't step on the cracks" superstition came from.

That's not the way to do it! You keep some hand sanitiser in your bag/pocket and use it every time you touch something potentially unhygienic. It's so much more convenient.