I just love xkcd - its my favourite comic at the moment, and I keep spamming everybody with my latest favourite. The strips are often diffult to decipher for any one other than computer scientists, and they are very geeky and just simply fun.

I came across a youtube video today of a talk that the author Randall Monroe gave at Google december 2007, and I wanted to share that with you.

The father of algorithm analysis Donald 'Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it'  Knuth has appeared in xkcd a few times:

So Google invited him to ask Randall Monroe a question, and he askes him what his n log(log n) algorithm is for searching :)

Furthermore the author of the Python programming language Guido van Rossum now works at Google, so in reference to this cartoon he had a single question:

Im not sure Monroe recognized him though, but its fun none the less. Watch the video for the question, its a little difficult to explain.

Monroe actually mentions one of my other favourites in regards to animated stick figures, Don Hertzfeldt who did the amazing and insanely funny short animated films Rejected Cartoons and Everything will be OK

Check it out! (and now back to the code)

Related Links:

• http://xkcd.com/
• The Verizon Issue
• Randall Monroes Blog
• http://limerickdb.com/