Randall Munroe (English Wikipedia)

Spertus, Ellen (December 21, 2007). "Randall Munroe's visit to Google (xkcd)". Beyond Satire. Archived from the original on October 5, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2008.

ctan.org

"CTAN: Package xkcdcolors". ctan.org. Retrieved March 2, 2023.

doi.org

"What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions". Scientific American. 311 (3): 146. August 19, 2014. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-92b. ISSN 0036-8733. I grew up in Virginia
Munroe, Randall (October 4, 2013). "The Rise of Open Access". Science. 342 (6154): 58–59. Bibcode:2013Sci...342...58.. doi:10.1126/science.342.6154.58. PMID 24092724.

dx.doi.org

"What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions". Scientific American. 311 (3): 146. August 19, 2014. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-92b. ISSN 0036-8733. I grew up in Virginia

ghostarchive.org

Munroe, Randall (December 11, 2007). Authors@Google: Randall Munroe (@Google Talks Adobe Flash video). Mountain View, California: Google. Event occurs at 24:13, 48:05, other timepoints. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved September 25, 2008. ...Calvin and Hobbes was the first comic that I discovered. / ... I'm pretty sure I started [posting drawings] in September 2005

goodreads.com

"What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved January 17, 2021.

harvard.edu

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

Munroe, Randall (October 4, 2013). "The Rise of Open Access". Science. 342 (6154): 58–59. Bibcode:2013Sci...342...58.. doi:10.1126/science.342.6154.58. PMID 24092724.

issuu.com

"Voyages 2012". December 2014.

matplotlib.org

"Specifying colors - Matplotlib 3.7.0 documentation". Retrieved March 2, 2023.

nasa.gov

ssd.jpl.nasa.gov

Chamberlin, Alan. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". JPL Solar System Dynamics. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
"4942 Munroe (1987 DU6)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. July 29, 2013. Archived from the original on September 6, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2013.

nasa.gov

Lineberry, Denise (2012). "Robots or Webcomics? That was the Question". NASA. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2015.

newscientist.com

Ly, Chen (October 12, 2022). "Randall Munroe on answering the strangest scientific questions". New Scientist. Archived from the original on January 19, 2024.

newyorker.com

Katz, Farley (October 15, 2008). "Cartoon-Off: XKCD". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on April 1, 2015.
Munroe, Randall (November 18, 2015). "The Space Doctor's Big Idea". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on April 1, 2023.

nih.gov

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Munroe, Randall (October 4, 2013). "The Rise of Open Access". Science. 342 (6154): 58–59. Bibcode:2013Sci...342...58.. doi:10.1126/science.342.6154.58. PMID 24092724.

nytimes.com

Cohen, Noam (May 26, 2008). "This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
Alter, Alexandra (November 23, 2015). "Randall Munroe Explains It All for Us". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
"Good Question". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 16, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
Chang, Kenneth (March 22, 2016). "Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2016.

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com

Revkin, Andrew (March 23, 2011). "The 'Dread to Risk' Ratio on Radiation and other Discontents". Dot Earth blog. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 26, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2011.

pri.org

Petersen, Kierran (October 2, 2015). "A short history of /r9k/ — the 4chan message board some believe may be connected to the Oregon shooting". Public Radio International. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2018. Surprisingly enough, however, the /r9k/ board, otherwise known as ROBOT9001, was originally conceived as a way to increase the quality of messages on the wildly popular webcomic xkcd. It used a type of auto-moderation that prevented people from posting the same comment multiple times. [...] 4chan eventually moved the idea and software behind ROBOT9000 on to its site. They just added a one.

proquest.com

Harvkey, Mike (August 5, 2019). "Cartoonist Randall Munroe Will Be Your Answer Man". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 266, no. 31. p. 49. ProQuest 2268106353. Retrieved November 16, 2022 – via ProQuest.

redhat.com

Fernandez, Rebecca (October 12, 2006). "xkcd: A comic strip for the computer geek". Red Hat Magazine. Raleigh, North Carolina: Red Hat. Archived from the original on March 6, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2008.

richmondmagazine.com

Tupponce, Joan (November 24, 2009). "A Cartoonist's Mind". Richmond Magazine. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2020.

slate.com

Martinelli, Marissa (September 6, 2019). "Xkcd Creator Randall Munroe on the Joys of Overthinking Everything". Slate. Archived from the original on September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2019.

streamertactics.com

"What Does R9K Mode Mean - Twitch - Streamer Tactics". streamertactics.com. September 30, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
"Twitch Unique Chat Mode - Twitch - Streamer Tactics". streamertactics.com. November 18, 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2023.

thecutest.info

Munroe, Randall. "The Cutest". Archived from the original on May 28, 2010.

thefairest.info

Munroe, Randall. "The Fairest". Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved September 26, 2008.

thefunniest.info

Munroe, Randall. "The Funniest". Archived from the original on December 5, 2006.

theguardian.com

Monbiot, George (March 21, 2011). "Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
Alderman, Naomi (December 17, 2015). "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe – funny, precise and beautifully designed". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2016.

thehugoawards.org

Hugo Staff. "Hugo Awards 2012 nomination". Archived from the original on April 9, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
Hugo Staff (April 18, 2014). "Hugo Awards 2014 nomination". Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2014.

themarysue.com

Jao, Charline (March 23, 2016). "XKCD Creator Randall Munroe Making Content For High School Textbooks". The Mary Sue. Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2016.

theverge.com

Gartenberg, Chaim (January 31, 2022). "XKCD's Randall Munroe announces What If? 2, with more scientific answers to life's most absurd hypothetical questions". The Verge. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
Kastrenakes, Jacob (May 13, 2015). "XKCD has a new book about explaining complicated subjects in simple ways". The Verge. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2015.

washingtonpost.com

Cavna, Michael (September 12, 2022). "The world's funniest former NASA roboticist will take your questions". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 13, 2022.

web.archive.org

Chamberlin, Alan. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". JPL Solar System Dynamics. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
Cohen, Noam (May 26, 2008). "This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
Tupponce, Joan (November 24, 2009). "A Cartoonist's Mind". Richmond Magazine. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
Martinelli, Marissa (September 6, 2019). "Xkcd Creator Randall Munroe on the Joys of Overthinking Everything". Slate. Archived from the original on September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
Munroe, Randall. "About". xkcd. Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2008.^{[independent source needed]}
Munroe, Randall (October 6, 2006). "Many news things, some overdue". xkcd: The blag of the webcomic. WordPress. Job. Archived from the original on August 24, 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2014. My about page mentions that I work for NASA — I'm technically a contractor working repeated contracts for them. However, they recently ran out of money to rehire me for another contract, so I'm done there for now.^{[independent source needed]}
Lineberry, Denise (2012). "Robots or Webcomics? That was the Question". NASA. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
Munroe, Randall. "Wikipedian Protester". xkcd.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
Munroe, Randall. "xkcd". xkcd. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
Fernandez, Rebecca (October 12, 2006). "xkcd: A comic strip for the computer geek". Red Hat Magazine. Raleigh, North Carolina: Red Hat. Archived from the original on March 6, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
So, Adrienne (November 13, 2007). "Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick Figures". Wired. San Francisco: Condé Nast Publications. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
Randall Munroe (June 15, 2007). "Long Light". xkcd. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
Alter, Alexandra (November 23, 2015). "Randall Munroe Explains It All for Us". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
Spertus, Ellen (December 21, 2007). "Randall Munroe's visit to Google (xkcd)". Beyond Satire. Archived from the original on October 5, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
Hugo Staff. "Hugo Awards 2012 nomination". Archived from the original on April 9, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
Hugo Staff (April 18, 2014). "Hugo Awards 2014 nomination". Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
Munroe, Randall. "The Funniest". Archived from the original on December 5, 2006.
Munroe, Randall. "The Cutest". Archived from the original on May 28, 2010.
Munroe, Randall. "The Fairest". Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved September 26, 2008.
Munroe, Randall (January 14, 2008). "ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat". blog.xkcd.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
Petersen, Kierran (October 2, 2015). "A short history of /r9k/ — the 4chan message board some believe may be connected to the Oregon shooting". Public Radio International. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2018. Surprisingly enough, however, the /r9k/ board, otherwise known as ROBOT9001, was originally conceived as a way to increase the quality of messages on the wildly popular webcomic xkcd. It used a type of auto-moderation that prevented people from posting the same comment multiple times. [...] 4chan eventually moved the idea and software behind ROBOT9000 on to its site. They just added a one.
Katz, Farley (October 15, 2008). "Cartoon-Off: XKCD". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on April 1, 2015.
Munroe, Randall (November 18, 2015). "The Space Doctor's Big Idea". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on April 1, 2023.
"Good Question". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 16, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
"Radiation dosage chart". xkcd.com. Archived from the original on November 22, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
Monbiot, George (March 21, 2011). "Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
Revkin, Andrew (March 23, 2011). "The 'Dread to Risk' Ratio on Radiation and other Discontents". Dot Earth blog. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 26, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
Munroe, Randall (March 19, 2011). "Radiation Chart". www.xkcd.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
Kastrenakes, Jacob (May 13, 2015). "XKCD has a new book about explaining complicated subjects in simple ways". The Verge. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
Alderman, Naomi (December 17, 2015). "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe – funny, precise and beautifully designed". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
Chang, Kenneth (March 22, 2016). "Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
Jao, Charline (March 23, 2016). "XKCD Creator Randall Munroe Making Content For High School Textbooks". The Mary Sue. Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
Munroe, Randall. "how to". xkcd. Archived from the original on March 29, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
"4942 Munroe (1987 DU6)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. July 29, 2013. Archived from the original on September 6, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
Munroe, Randall (September 30, 2013). "Asteroid 4942 Munroe". xkcd | The blag of the webcomic. Archived from the original on October 3, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
Munroe, Randall (November 5, 2010). "November - 2010 - xkcd". blog.xkcd.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
Munroe, Randall (June 30, 2011). "Family Illness". Archived from the original on May 21, 2018. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
Munroe, Randall. "xkcd: Emotion". xkcd.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
Munroe, Randall (September 12, 2011). "<3". Blog. XKCD. Archived from the original on November 3, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
Munroe, Randall (November 30, 2012). "Two Years". xkcd. Archived from the original on July 11, 2024. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
Munroe, Randall (December 13, 2017). "Seven Years". Webcomic. XKCD. Archived from the original on March 4, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
Munroe, Randall (November 16, 2020). "Ten Years". Webcomic. XKCD. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
Kuchera, Ben (July 2, 2007). "The joys of kite photography". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2017.

wired.com

So, Adrienne (November 13, 2007). "Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick Figures". Wired. San Francisco: Condé Nast Publications. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2008.

worldcat.org

search.worldcat.org

Cohen, Noam (May 26, 2008). "This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
"What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions". Scientific American. 311 (3): 146. August 19, 2014. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-92b. ISSN 0036-8733. I grew up in Virginia
So, Adrienne (November 13, 2007). "Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick Figures". Wired. San Francisco: Condé Nast Publications. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2008.

xkcd.com

Munroe, Randall. "About". xkcd. Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2008.^{[independent source needed]}
Munroe, Randall. "Wikipedian Protester". xkcd.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
Munroe, Randall. "xkcd". xkcd. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
Randall Munroe (June 15, 2007). "Long Light". xkcd. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
"954 most common RGB colors (xkcd color survey results)". xkcd.com. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
"Radiation dosage chart". xkcd.com. Archived from the original on November 22, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
Munroe, Randall. "how to". xkcd. Archived from the original on March 29, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
Munroe, Randall. "xkcd: Emotion". xkcd.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
Munroe, Randall (November 30, 2012). "Two Years". xkcd. Archived from the original on July 11, 2024. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
Munroe, Randall (December 13, 2017). "Seven Years". Webcomic. XKCD. Archived from the original on March 4, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
Munroe, Randall (November 16, 2020). "Ten Years". Webcomic. XKCD. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.

blog.xkcd.com

Munroe, Randall (October 6, 2006). "Many news things, some overdue". xkcd: The blag of the webcomic. WordPress. Job. Archived from the original on August 24, 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2014. My about page mentions that I work for NASA — I'm technically a contractor working repeated contracts for them. However, they recently ran out of money to rehire me for another contract, so I'm done there for now.^{[independent source needed]}
Munroe, Randall (January 14, 2008). "ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat". blog.xkcd.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
"Color Survey Results". xkcd. May 4, 2010. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
Munroe, Randall (March 19, 2011). "Radiation Chart". www.xkcd.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
Munroe, Randall (September 30, 2013). "Asteroid 4942 Munroe". xkcd | The blag of the webcomic. Archived from the original on October 3, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
Munroe, Randall (November 5, 2010). "November - 2010 - xkcd". blog.xkcd.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
Munroe, Randall (June 30, 2011). "Family Illness". Archived from the original on May 21, 2018. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
Munroe, Randall (September 12, 2011). "<3". Blog. XKCD. Archived from the original on November 3, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2011.

youtube.com

Munroe, Randall (December 11, 2007). Authors@Google: Randall Munroe (@Google Talks Adobe Flash video). Mountain View, California: Google. Event occurs at 24:13, 48:05, other timepoints. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved September 25, 2008. ...Calvin and Hobbes was the first comic that I discovered. / ... I'm pretty sure I started [posting drawings] in September 2005
"xkcd's What If?". youtube.com. Retrieved December 5, 2023.