If you move over, move the page up or down a click, then mouseover again, it will pop up a second time. Repeat as necessary.
Wow. So much for referring to xkcd strips by #. I’m in Washington (state) running Linux. No IE on this machine but Firefox renders the Voight-Kampff" test and Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome) produces the snake.
heh. I’m getting “Wisconsin” here. Blizzard setting.
I’m in the U.K.
I get the snake in Firefox, the turtle/lie detector thing in chrome, and the Sun in IE9 (64bit), Safari and Opera. I guess the Sun image is a sort of default.
I note that the mouseover on the snake only mentions browser window size. There is no clue given there that it makes a difference which browser you are using.
You can also go to m.xkcd.com there will be a link to click to get the mouse over text.
That’s great to know!
Firefox 10: I got the one with the snake (expandable to show an extra panel).
IE9: A silhouette comic with a group of guys (“2quiet2furious”) and a little dinosaur.
Safari 5.1.2: Same as the IE strip, except that the dinosaur is only visible when the window is expanded. (The gag actually makes sense in this browser.)
Default Droid browser: A sketchy sun.
Wii Opera browser: Comic does not display. Previous and next day strips display with no problem.
In London, using Firefox, I get a atick man standing on a shore saying “sorry I don’t have a comic poking fun at the UK here - I only have time to get to the most important US states.”
In ChromeI get an “error message:” “this plug-i requires Sergey Brin’s permission to run. Please wait while he is woken.”
In both, the mouseover says that “Umwelt is the idea that, because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually inhabit very different worlds.” I quite like that idea, though as a German speaker I’m also thinking “what? Umwelt means universe.” It’s weird the way English speakers choose extremely ordinary German words to describe esoteric concepts.
I just used Firefox through a U.S. proxy, and got the Turtle/lie-detector thing that I got from my regular connection in Britain in Chrome. Firefox in Britain consistently gets me the snake. What I am getting in Essex, in both browsers, is quite different from what SciFiSam is getting just 40 miles or so away in London.
Clearly this depends on much more than the browser you are using, and there is more to it than location dependence too.
Actually, the use of umweldt in the relevant sense, was introduced by Jakob von Uexküll, who was German.
Hmm, fair enough. It just looks a little odd to me. (No d in Umwelt, btw).