I’d like to let you in on a very self referential and very geeky in-joke posted to the web. It takes a bit to get to the punch, but if you’re in on XKCD, you’re probably rated just to skip to the bottom.
Geeks like the Discovery Channel, in general… I mean how could you not like a channel which gives guys like Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman a budget, a ton of resources and research material and explosives. Last year or so, the Discovery channel did an ad expressing its love for the world with many of its stars taking part in singing a silly song – see Ref 1.
Ref 1.
Geeks, if they’ve been exposed to it also love XKCD. What is XKCD?
xkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe,[1][2] a former contractor for NASA.[3] Munroe describes it as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”[4][5] It is widely read[6] and has been recognized in such mainstream media as The Guardian[7] and The New York Times.[8]
Ok, so there was this XKCD take on the Boom-de-Yadda video above… see Ref 2.
Ref 2.
So – given these two separate artistic endeavors, in the great modern tradition of the web… we have a mashup. This web-comic has been re-created in video, with significant web-geeky folks taking the roles of the speaker in individual cells…
The Result: XKCD Boom de Yadda….
Tons of in-joke references for why certain folks were chosen to sing certain parts – You may not recognize them, but Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Lawrence Lessig, et al are here – see the full rundown.
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