Cory Doctorow
There’s no red cape. But, then again, this was taken back in 2004:
Photo courtesty Windley (via, of course, a Creative Commons license)
Cory Doctorow was the guy who first convinced me to publish xkcd under a CC license, allowing people to share my comics freely. It’s easy to do and was one of the best decisions I’ve made. Check it out at CreativeCommons.org. If you want to learn more about the copyright debate, I recommend Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture, which is available online for — surprise — free. I read it as an audio book on a long car trip, but I recommend the text version — the audio book has a different reader for each chapter, and they’re of wildly varying quality.
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I’ve got a slightly more flash Cory-with-Goggles photo in this entry on my blog. It may not be a red cape, but a shiny “Decepticon” shirt is a pretty good substitute.
http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/3/23/2828988.html
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:03 pm
“allowing people to share my comics freely”
And where have you seen them shared? :-)
Seriously though, I love your comics and I will select some to print out soon. I would ask for high-res but we all know about that… maybe I’ll use bicubic to upscale your online version :)
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Tomer, bicubic probably wouldn’t be the best option for xkcd since it is a drawing, HQ4X or another emulator filter would probably give the best results since they are designed to operate on sharply defined edges and such. (read about it at http://www.hiend3d.com/hq4x.html)
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Well, I’ve shared the comic on my blog, NetworkPerformanceDaily (which got on Slashdot yesterday and does so with frequency…)
http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2007/03/futureblog.html
It also has a picture of me in goggles and a cape.
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I’ve seen your comics pinned to my University Lecturer’s office door :P
It’s refreshing to know they have a good sense of humor :)
(Oh and for the record they’re Computer Science lecturers, and it was the Lisp comic)
March 25th, 2007 at 9:24 am
That’s neat. A lot of profs at my college had comic clippings on their doors. Some doors are nearly wallpapered with clippings.
March 25th, 2007 at 10:52 am
The website Macrochan, a depository of image macros of all sorts, has a section with some XKCD comics.
http://macrochan.org/search.py?tag=Themes%3AComics%3Axkcd
March 25th, 2007 at 11:16 am
I’ve seen ‘Centrifugal Force’ drawn on someone’s message board outside their door (instead of a more conventional “Hello! You were out!”).
March 25th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Off-topic, but the goggles and cape are appropriate…
Is this cooler or less cool than the human-sized hamster ball? http://www.jet-man.com/actuel_eng.html
March 26th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Re: Comic on Mon.
Is there anything significant about the park off of Cedar and Dudley in North Cambridge?
March 27th, 2007 at 5:24 am
I was wondering the same thing, the jake. I simply assume that the park holds some meaning to the author, which the relevance is not important to the reader.
Maybe it’s where he tried out his first giant hamster ball?
March 27th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Cory is one of those persons who make reading blogs worth it. Knows who is too? Kathy Sierra. But some sick people thinks that using his supposed freedoms to take another people freedoms is acceptable. We must to support her!
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/as_i_type_this_.html
March 27th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Not you & the jake: But what’s up with the date, which is 6 months out in the future? Even though the character is talking in the past tense that wanting something doesn’t make it so, it would seem as though Monday’s comic is actually a call to the readers to make it true. So is there going to be an xkcd swarm there on 9/23? Or is this supposed to be acted upon only by his one true love? (I’m fairly new to this comic, so maybe this is something that the regulars would understand…)
March 28th, 2007 at 12:27 am
you are a horrible, horrible bugger. HORRIBLE.
…have you read any of the books past the first? :P
March 28th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Cory Doctorow just received an EFF Pioneer award at O’Reilly’s etech conference.. They gave him a red cape, goggles and a balloon.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Jesse’s right! It’s true! Here are some utterly terrible phonecam pictures!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34762601@N00/sets/72157600031909586/
Manifest destiny.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:53 am
*groan at Ender joke*
And to those posters above, why ruin the surprise? I beseech the power of Randall Munroe to delete the spoilsport comments (if it happens, it happens - it shouldn’t be an organised thing).
March 28th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Sorry!
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:16 am
I like the spam protection :-)
Just thought I’d let you know that I really appreciate the CC license. I love all your comics, but the one hanging up in my shared office is the evolution one. I’m in a grad program for ecology & evolutionary bio, and we love your comics.
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:22 am
I really love the fact that xkcd is under CC; for instance, it made the lojban community totally comfortable doing a translation of #191, “Lojban” (and for the most part we’re public domain/open source fanatics anyway).
So if this is the guy who inspired you, props to him! ♥
May 14th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Thinking of making use of Free Culture as an audio book… any of these readers you suggest steering away from?
http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:01 am
my eyes! the goggles, they do nothing!