Everything I’ve viewed it on so far (IE on desktop, Safari and Atomic Web on iPad or iPhone) gives the “sun” image. I’m in Chicago.
I fired up Perfect Browser on my iPhone and set it for “Firefox 3.6”, and it produced an image of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial with the caption chiseled overhead: “In this marble prison / As in the nightmares of the nation / they tried to devour / The nanobots that constituted / Abraham Lincoln / Are entombed forever”
Same results when I set it as “Firefox 7” or “Firefox 9.”
Set as IE 6/7/8, Opera 10.5: “sun” image
Set as “Google Chrome”, I got the minor IL earthquake/major IL snowstorm one.
BTW, it’s definitely a snowstorm, not a tornado as someone in IL upthread got. I wonder if I’ll get tornado as a result when I go home to the burbs tonight? (Working in Chicago proper right now.)
I suspect being in IL is why I got the one about the Lincoln Memorial via Firefox.
This is so cool! In the DC area, I get the earthquake/hurricane thing on Firefox, something about nanobots in the Lincoln Memorial in IE, and northern lights in Safari (on my iPhone). I’m missing a plug in in Chrome.
Likewise, mine is definitely a tornado. She’s begging him to close the storm shelter doors with a giant funnel cloud appearing and he won’t do it until she admits that IL disasters are worse than CA.
I’m currently at work in Kaneville, IL so it’s fitting enough.
THe final panel here is them trudging through deep, fallen snow, with snow still falling and blowing horizontally into their faces. She’s complaining that snow looked so soft in pictures, yells about her neck, and then “HOW DO PEOPLE LIVE HERE?” He just replies, “Come on - it’s only three more miles!”
This reminds me of a similar situation between my husband and I this winter, driving snow and all, but we were just going “Aaaaaa!” intermittently and then laughing about how this prevents the city from getting larger than it already is.
On Firefox full screen, I get a joke about a girl finding a really long snake. If I shrink the window size, one of the jokes (a guy riding the snake with a saddle) disappears
On IE full screen, I get a joke about a bunch of guys in the dark saying its too quiet with a stretched out panel with raptor at one end. On a smaller window, the raptor disappears
I got a strip about shopping for an item while reading reviews of it on the web.
That would be this case:
Firefox, Javascript disabled (Friday’s comic, “Reviews”, still with title “Umwelt”)
Probably because he knew the April Fool’s comic definitely requires javascript enabled
And I just double-checked, it definitely specifies Chicago in the 3rd panel, not Illinois. I wonder how far outside Chicago you’d have to be to see a switch? I’ll try it out on the train on my way home.
I’d like to say thanks for the thread. I can never keep the mouse-over message going long enough to read a long one, so until I read this, I literally didn’t have a clue. (Is there a trick to getting the mouseover to show again once it’s expired. I can only get it to pop once.)
And, of course: Awesome webcomic effort and a nice example of the concept.
Well, one workaround is to stop by the xkcd forums, where somebody starts a thread within minutes of a new comic being up, including the mouseover text.
