In our effort to expand the conversation on building a smarter planet, we asked Randall Munroe, the genius behind the web-comic XKCD, to create a few just for our blog. Here’s his take on smarter health care:
As for our take on smarter health care:
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9:11 am
It’s just really very interesting and good to came across the post.
Posted by: health insurance
6:57 am
2 randoms within 20 seconds.
Posted by: this_is_annoying
7:32 am
I fell once again and again and again and again.Who cares why and where I fall,I am enjoying it!!!
Posted by: Aditya
3:19 pm
Weeeeeee… I fell off the random slide too. …or is this the end of the universe? either way, I’m hungry. Lets eat a cow that serves itself!
Posted by: sl1d3f4n
9:26 am
Anyone who reads this comment is gay. Gotcha son.
Posted by: Nelson
8:45 am
Is this the most commented page on their site?
Does posting a xkcd graphic lead you readers away?
Posted by: roflaleham
12:51 pm
I guess it is true that doctors all over the world have terrible handwritings.
Posted by: Manchurian
8:59 pm
third time here! I feel so honored
Posted by: paul
2:20 am
24 days later, and several hundred clicks of the random button, and I’m back here again.
Posted by: BMuscat
9:24 am
This is my second in the 15min I’ve spent reading these. I just found xkcd today, and I kind of want to go back to reading them.
Posted by: Piotr
11:40 am
RANDOM RANSOM!
Posted by: Mike
4:39 am
Random indeed!
Posted by: Bill
6:25 pm
it feels so empty without the mouse-over text…
Posted by: emilee
1:36 am
Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall.
Posted by: BMuscat
10:34 pm
Round 5, baby!
I think there may be a deeper message bringing me back here so many times…
Posted by: Qwaz
4:29 am
Awesome! I feel like I just won a prize :p
Posted by: CakeMonitor
1:53 am
Bazinga!
Is this Random Thing Sarcasm?
Posted by: Rach
1:42 am
sad… I’ve spent four days (not continuously) randomly hitting random to see if i found another easter egg and… I’ve seen this one already :(
Posted by: Jhade
3:53 pm
Is this like an Easter egg? am I special, now? FTW!!
Posted by: David Kaplan
4:56 pm
Yay, super cool random moment:)
Posted by: Sebastian
4:48 am
What the duce? now how am I meant to get on with work
Posted by: Tom
3:44 am
Holy crap, the random button on xkcd was more random than I thought.
Posted by: mjc
3:52 am
2nd random in a month.
Posted by: xkcd addictee
4:29 pm
Ahhh! Help where am I? All I know is I was happily floating around XKCD and then I was here…oh hey look its the guy that codes the universe! ….sure i’ll help..where do you get all the rocks from?
Posted by: Y-not Rider!
10:40 pm
where’d the randumb button go?
Posted by: dennis
6:29 pm
we be rolling random!
Posted by: jt
2:37 am
more outside randoms requested…to stop me (and others like me) from endlessly clicking the random button in xkcd…
Posted by: xkcd addictee
7:33 pm
Help I’m trapped in a universe factory!
Posted by: Tom W
11:11 pm
I like it! something to end my day with. Thanks, xkcd!
Posted by: summer
7:16 pm
MacGyver is back!
Posted by: The Finn
10:39 pm
Hell…. I wasnt ready for this! The zombies! So maaannnnnnny. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Posted by: shewhomustnotberaped
6:11 am
Yesh! I gotted a random!
Posted by: Michael Rosenberger
10:52 am
RANDOM AND I DISLIEK!!!!!
Posted by: rkz
5:09 am
Woah. Since when could you leave xkcd by hitting random?
Posted by: Naleh
4:31 pm
OMG. I’m sure someone else has mentioned it but that THX1138 thing is a movie.. You crafty little devil!
Posted by: ;D
3:36 am
someone said ” yeah i can post something clever here”
that was his clever momment o ,o
and what the hell?
how many of these out-of-xkcd-linkz there are?
Posted by: Duko
11:36 am
I guess this is recently (6 months ago) implemented. Well I’ll be.
Posted by: John Baber
6:19 am
Random searching XKCD = magical things.
Posted by: Kaez
7:08 pm
17++
Posted by: Paul
11:14 am
17
Posted by: Paul
6:17 am
haha… first random!
Posted by: Shabs
8:52 pm
well at least we all share a common goal, to find all sites outside of xkcd that we can get to by the random button
Posted by: randall munroe
3:55 am
alas, yet again.
Posted by: justayn
3:18 am
this is my second time in one of these tonight third overall…i spend too much time on xkcd…
Posted by: smiley
11:57 pm
Random >_>!
Posted by: compgenius999
3:57 pm
Lol, no more sea monsters. Love XKCD!!
Posted by: MaddLibbs
1:38 pm
wait, now I’m confused.
*moment passes*
I get it now!
The doc thing was funny.
Does this happen often? Don’t answer that, I’d probably never end up on his page again.
Posted by: Pat
11:42 am
im here on a random serch on xkcd, and im not the only one
Posted by: dvallej
9:59 am
W00t, 2nd Random too
Posted by: Alf
11:28 pm
Wait, I clicked random, how did I get here?
Posted by: Chaos Incarnate
1:08 pm
Wow, so many xkcd fans have probably never commented so much on one board before. Except, ya know, the xkcd forums…
Posted by: Master_Rudik
8:55 pm
also from xkcd. :) this is exciting.
Posted by: Justayn
6:27 pm
Legend has it that if you click Random for the rest of your life, you will come to every page on the entire internet!
Posted by: Tareq Abuissa
1:25 pm
The power of xkcd: All comments on this website are from xkcd readers.
Posted by: Almafuerte
12:46 am
2 different ones in one day. Double random club!!
Posted by: Mike
7:32 pm
this random is less startling
Posted by: Aaron F L
1:25 pm
Second Random xkcd of the week, third ever. I love these things, even if they don’t have an alt-text.
Posted by: William P.
8:44 pm
Yea! I can post something clever here!
Posted by: :D
1:50 pm
If this comment shows up in the next 10 minutes i will know that the blog comments aren’t moderated
Posted by: James
7:23 pm
I do love me some random.
Posted by: Matt F.M.
12:01 pm
My 2nd random. How many are there?
Posted by: Adam
5:05 pm
im tired of this happening
Posted by: sam
12:17 pm
RANDOM! WTF?
Posted by: Haxie
6:43 am
We get it. The random takes you here. Now shut up about it.
Posted by: Ton Berry
5:52 pm
random club!!!!
Posted by: John
2:28 pm
Why did random send me here?
Posted by: Random
3:09 am
All hail the random
Posted by: Cheeto
1:38 am
random prevails yet again…
Posted by: Sadi
11:07 pm
Second random page, how many are there?
Posted by: Melz
9:44 pm
I love you all!
Posted by: Levi
12:07 am
Woot! You guys’ve no idea how special this makes me feel… And I haven’t even taken a look at what I’ve unearthed. It’s probably YouTube’s fault: I’m always compelled to read all the comments before actually viewing what I came to the page for… (random’d as well, btw)
Posted by: Nicki
1:41 am
Dig it like a spigot.
Posted by: Sean
12:14 am
2nd random as well; this really is cool. We need merit badges or something, or yeah, jackets. Letter jackets.
Posted by: VarkAard
5:44 pm
yaha, my second random comic, the random club demands jackets
Posted by: adahaka
9:01 pm
Hooray for random!
Posted by: Apsicle
12:43 pm
Random’d! FTW!
Posted by: Tyloric
8:50 pm
randomness! I’m now in two of the clubs.
Posted by: Adam
2:31 pm
Th random button has given me the privilege of being in this special club. YAY!!!
Posted by: Brent
4:07 pm
Horay, I’m chosen! Mhhh…
$ssh root@login.yourmother.biz
password: qwerty
Posted by: failroot
8:42 pm
Awesome. This is my second hit as well. Let’s start an exclusive club or something.
Posted by: Ben
8:18 am
AGAIN…
ok this has to be more than a coincidence..
i rondomed to this one too..
bt this time there is mouse over text…
:)
Posted by: sandy1kumar
7:46 am
Two visits now… This is getting repetitive. I said, this is getting repetitive…
Posted by: Steve
10:03 pm
Hurray for random !
Posted by: playest
3:18 pm
I was here! (2nd random as well, yay).
Posted by: m
8:01 pm
Second Random ive found lol
Posted by: Brian
8:21 pm
Random clicks I’m trapped in a cycle.
Posted by: katherine
7:51 am
if I know anything about med students it’s more likely the pressure of too much alcohol
Posted by: jim
7:41 am
It’s so true! I am a medical student and my handwriting has mysteriously become less and less legible since I started med school. I have attributed this to my brain melting under the pressure of too much learning.
Posted by: Katya
5:24 pm
random clickers…united. :]
Posted by: Emily
1:30 am
Oh wow, another random discovery! I wonder how many other xkcd jewels are lying out there, undiscovered, waiting for intrepid random clickers to unearth them? This is the second so far, right? First squirrels and then health care. I should follow this blog. They have good taste in cartoonists.
Posted by: Aislin Kageno
11:58 pm
random
Posted by: Deiden
4:51 pm
I random’d too ! Blast !
Posted by: Bigre
8:16 pm
No alt text :(
Posted by: Emily
9:10 pm
yay for random, hah
liking the THX1138 ref :p
Posted by: Nova
10:29 am
Yay! Random! Alpacas!
Posted by: JockeTF
12:56 pm
yay for random :D
Posted by: Coraline
2:24 am
Awesome two random moments in one night! I’m on a roll!
Posted by: Aaron
8:06 am
Just as with the squirrels XKCD, no alt-text… =(
Posted by: Lollies
1:08 am
whoo! huurraandum
Posted by: StanFTWiMeanFord
5:16 am
woop my first smarter planet random! go me :o)
Posted by: Kim
5:10 pm
wat, random got me here :s
Posted by: LTC
3:34 pm
“Prescription THX1138″
My favorite part of xkcd is the obscure references.
Posted by: Becca
11:37 am
no more seamonsters!
Posted by: Jason
9:46 am
Custom handwriting-style font?
Posted by: Christopher Parker