I assume Wirecutter is some sort of review site. The joke’s probably funnier if you’d ever heard of it before.
Yes, it’s one owned by the NY Times. I only have heard of it because I get the NYTimes daily email and they have a small section with Wirecutter recommendations. I ignore it.
Yeah, I just thought it was about wire-cutters (electrical engineer, here - I know where my towel is at, but also where my wire-cutters are).
If you need advice:
Now that’s a useful website. Thank you
Better bring along a few ballpoint pens to season the deal.
I’d known about this famous problem since encountering it in a puzzle book when I was a child. More recently, I learned a lot more about the problem from the always-entertaining Cliff Stoll in a Numberphile video. Today, I was curious what explain xkcd had to say about it so I read what they had so far, and learned a couple new things. And then I rewatched the video, and with one of the new things I learned from explainxkcd I was able to spot a mistake Cliff made in his explanation that I didn’t know enough to understand the first time around. 
The mistake I spotted was: Cliff uses the term “circuit” incorrectly at least twice during his video, at stages where he says a “circuit” is possible, but now I know wouldn’t be.
So that’s what happened to Clifford Stoll. Huh. Good for him.
Yeah, I remember him from his highly entertaining computer-sleuthing book in the early 90s (Cuckoo’s Egg), but hadn’t heard much from him since his less-entertaining Internet skeptical book)
He’s been selling Klein bottles, and appearing in Numberphile videos.
His website for the Klein bottles is a hoot. It looks like something that my first-year web design students would write at about week three of learning about HTML. He dates it as first published in 1995, so it was probably state-of-the art back then, but looks like he keeps updating the contents including 2022 contact information.
Last I checked (back when I bought one), he was still updating his youngest kid’s opinion of the biodegradable packing pellets. But by now, that kid is probably in or past college, so they’re probably not eating the pellets any more.
Thanks
I am deeply shamed the concept of “volcano seeds” has never crossed my mind up to this moment.
They’d better be wearing some fire-resistant boots. Pyroclastic flow across the ankles is no joke.
I feel like I’ve seen volcano seeds, or something like them, in XKCD before…
You sure you don’t have them confused with Acme’s tornado seeds?
Perhaps this?
or this? (part of a series of scale models)