May 09, 2007

Map of online communities and related points of interest on genius webcomic xkcd. (previously) Kind of like the map you find at the beginning of a doorstop-sized fantasy book; maybe this should be the first page of the Web?

OK, so we're not on the map-- but only because, obviously, our location is classified. Shame-- I would have liked to see a TraciKraken emerging from the waves!

posted by Pallas Athena 17 years ago
  • Good thing it started as an online map, as it will need to be redrawn every day. Every hour?
  • This was my desktop for a few days. Love it.
  • Heehee, "blogipelago."
  • Where's MoFi?
  • WoW absorbed MoFi back in 2006. We now can be found at Monkey Crusade
  • ob xkcd is overrated
  • ob you're dead to me, fuyu. dead.
  • Hate to say it, fuyugare, but I'm with zorgon.
  • Whatever one may think of xkcd in general, I really like this map in particular: not just the way it visualises our beloved internets, or the nod to fantasy-maps in general, but the way he's done the "geography" (check out the compass rose.)
  • I won't be happy till Monkeys are on the map. Or not. Keep the riff-raff out.
  • nice one, homunculus! Hee hee.
  • InsolentChimp, that map is filled with awesomeness.
  • *applauds InsolentChimp*
  • *wild applause* IC, that was the best thing I've seen all week. I'm all set to move into my summer villa in Werzogovinia!
  • Thanky, thanky, all! (Does the unemployment show?)
  • Very impressive!
  • just a little
  • )))))))
  • Ah! Fond memories of childhood holidays in Cape Cockpunch came flooding back. Yet I failed to spot the fenlands on your masterpiece, IC. I was left prostate with grief, as it were.
  • *wipes tear* That's -- that's beautiful, man. *sniff*
  • *sneakily pencils #mofirc into a remote corner of the map*
  • *sees mistake, quickly blunders in with eraser*
  • I love the giant Tracicracken in the middle, and the Shoals of Trolls. BRAVO! Made my day :)
  • Brilliant! *sneakily pencils in haunted cemetary where dead posts are brought back to life*
  • That's where the Vampire Melons live!
  • WHAT!?!?!!! No Isle of Taglines? Begone, ye knave, to the Land of Daisy_May! Your cartographic skills be damned!
  • There is a Tag Line! It's right by your house, too.
  • Update: work at the MoFiIC (MonkeyFilter Institute of Cartography) never ends! Due to Abiezer_Coppe's persistent lobbying, Primate Fenland, "the masseuse", from the Cathedral of Xyxx in Anonymous Georgopolis has decreed that there shall be an A.M. line to separate "special time" zones. This line is centered on the chapel and bisects Mofircistan. What this will mean for the residents of Mofircistan is currently unknown, but likely scatological. A joint expedition by the intrepid explorers, Lara and homunculus, into the Mountains of Eek has discovered a unique Necropolis in which Eeks are revived by Monkey cultists who converge to breathe new life into dead things. While this may seem a trivial discovery, we may now understand through this site the legendary origins of Daisy Malaysia. Also, the expedition has yielded the discovery of a new species of melon native to the area. Correspondence with the explorers on the subject has been scattered and poor, leaving only the cryptic, yet ominous, "Beware of the Vampire Watermelons". Te existence of these species has previously been dismissed as a folk tale from Werzogovinia, but this recent discovery has given the scientific community of New Sfilter pause. Back to you, Nancy.
  • Awesome!
  • Splendid! This may be the first time I've had a positive impact on anything. No surprise it involved anal massage.
  • Malarkey? or Effective Way?
  • All the bananas for InsolentChimp. Magnificent!
  • Brilliant, IC! *keeps vigilant watch for the return of his intrepid, beloved Larababy*
  • And the study of our beloved and mysterious land continues, thanks to the brilliant cartographer Insolent Chimp! I have returned with enough killer melons for all. I nearly had to eat homunculus when I got hungry, but then I realized I had a pack of M&Ms in my purse.
  • Oh, and Monkeyfilter:No surprise it involved anal massage.
  • *Peers at fine print on map *Saves, opens in BigPictureProgram and enlarged Why, there's the tagline. Right next to my place! *GramMa dodders off, peering 'round anxiously
  • *sqints uncertainly* Hom, just where are we on this map?
  • I assume we're somewhere near MeFi Island in the Troll Bay.
  • And about the same size as the . in /.. We're in illustrious company, albeit unseeable.
  • The Loch Ness Monster's Song Sssnnnwhuffffll? Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl? Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl. Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl – gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm. Hovoplodok – doplodovok – plovodokot-doplodokosh? Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok! Zgra kra gka fok! Grof grawff gahf? Gombl mbl bl – blm plm, blm plm, blm plm, blp. --Edwin Morgan
  • Oh, that's great! I'll have to save that for the grandfillies.