xkcd and the Straight Dope

[Yllaria]

It’s almost like today’s cartoon was written about the SDMB. If it isn’t 2/20/08 and you need to tab back, it’s the one titled Duty Calls .

Don’t forget to read the mousover message.

[WordMan]

Well done. But we’re not alone - Wikipedia-geeks can get pretty obsessive, can’t they?

[Turek]

@Yllaria

Don’t forget to read the mousover message.

I never realized there were mouseover messages. Thanks!

[Inner_Stickler]

@Turek

I never realized there were mouseover messages. Thanks!

Ooh, now you’ll have to go back through the archive!

[Athena]

Hmm I don’t get the mouseover with Firefox… it’s there with IE though!

[LurkMeister]

I get the mouseover with Firefox, although the longer ones are truncated.

[Inner_Stickler]

Yeah, I dislike having to open up properties to read the full text but I’m not opening a whole nother browser just for one page.

[gazpacho]

@LurkMeister

I get the mouseover with Firefox, although the longer ones are truncated.

http://www.xkcd.com/about/

Why can’t I read the whole comic mouseover text in Firefox?

They can be read with extensions like [Long Titles](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1715), or by right-clicking on the images and going to 'properties', then clicking and dragging to read the whole thing. This is a bug in Firefox, Mozilla Bug #45375. It has been outstanding for many years now.

Note: It looks like it's been fixed in Firefox 3.0. p

[Flander]

@Inner Stickler

Ooh, now you’ll have to go back through the archive!

Ditto. Today will NOT be productive!

[Skywatcher]

@Yllaria

If it isn’t 2/20/08 and you need to tab back, it’s the one titled Duty Calls .

Permanent link to this comic: xkcd: Duty Calls

[SmartAleq]

Nothing to see here, move along…

[Tristan]

@SmartAleq

Nothing to see here, move along…

Some of them are just like that… a trailed off thought.

Curse you!

[LurkMeister]

Thanks for the tip, gazpacho. I installed Long Titles and it works fine.

[Justin_Bailey]

@Yllaria

It’s almost like today’s cartoon was written about the SDMB. If it isn’t 2/20/08 and you need to tab back, it’s the one titled Duty Calls.

And once again the SDMB’s raging ego rages about our reach into the wider world of the Internet.

[Aioua]

@Justin_Bailey

And once again the SDMB’s raging ego rages about our reach into the wider world of the Internet.

Yeah, we’re not even on the map.

[Alessan]

@Aioua

Yeah, we’re not even on the map.

I like to think of us as Qwghlm.

[Don_t_Panic]

@gazpacho

Long Titles

Hey - it looks like this extension also just happened to quadruple the usefulness of mousing over thread titles on this very Dope. Very nice.

[Shirley_Ujest]

@WordMan

Well done. But we’re not alone - Wikipedia-geeks can get pretty obsessive, can’t they?

Them, sir, are fighting words!!!111111

cite?

[Liberal]

@Yllaria

It’s almost like today’s cartoon was written about the SDMB. If it isn’t 2/20/08 and you need to tab back, it’s the one titled Duty Calls .

Don’t forget to read the mousover message.

A very funny cartoon! Thanks.

[WordMan]

@Shirley Ujest

Them, sir, are fighting words!!!111111

cite?

Fighting words meaning you are a Wikipedia geek don’t like the phrasing, or meaning that you see a throw-down between Doper’s & WikiHeads sometime down the road? If the former - trust me; if you read any of my music threads, you know I consider geekery to be Og’s calling - I am a card-carrying guitar geek (amongst other topics) and respect top geekery in all fields.

If the latter - I don’t know; are we looking to rumble with the WikiHeads? I picture a bunch of librarian types going at each other with slide rules and card catalog drawers - not pretty.