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[Pnx]

The front page of Wikipedia is awesome, all of the things it says on it are true.

EDIT: Although there's a typo on the marriage thing. It should say:

• 2001 – Marriage in the Netherlands became more samey.

[Derekristow]

Dresden Codak is redirecting to a weird video, but I don't know why he thought anyone would check the site.

Well, clearly someone did, so he made a good assumption

[LordBucket]

kongregate now has an option to make the site "3d" for those who happen to have 3d glasses

[Aqizzar]

I like how Wikipedia manages a sense of whimsy without letting it knock real information off the frontpage.


XKCD had a comic about an earthquake in Dallas.  I take it the text changes depending on where you are.  Very clever.

[DJ]

I just get the Umwelt comic

[Ochita]

yeah, the umwelt comic is the comic that changes on your location. For some reason, mine was blade-runner themed. With the Voight-Kampff test, with the turtle question.

The person who is being tested says "It knows what it did."

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Mine was about a snake.

I didn't really get it.

[Rose]

Mine was about delivering supplies to berlin via chairlift.

[Darvi]

I wonder what happens if you checked the website from outer space?

[klingon13524]

I wonder what happens if you checked the website from outer space?

He must of accounted for that. Now I'm incredibly curious what the ISS XKCD is.

[Darvi]

Probably porn ads for girls IN SPACE.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

....Does the ISS even get regular internet access?

[Aqizzar]

There has to be a way to fake your IP to make the Internet think you're on the ISS.  That, or it just registers as being from a NASA ground center.

[MonkeyHead]

AFAIK its a node... I do follow a large number of Astronauts on twitter that have tweeted (including some sweet pictures) from in orbit...

From Wikipedia:

The ISS is equipped with approximately 100 IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad model A31 and T61P laptop computers. Each computer is a commercial off-the-shelf purchase which is then modified for safety and operation including updates to connectors, cooling and power to accommodate the station's 28V DC power system and weightless environment. Heat generated by the laptops doesn't rise, but stagnates surrounding the laptop, so additional forced ventilation is required. Laptops aboard the ISS are connected to the station's wireless LAN via Wi-Fi and are connected to the ground at 3 Mbit/s up and 10 Mbit/s down, comparable to home DSL connection speeds.

So, the answer is yes - which means now we somehow need to find out what genius Randall pulled for up there... though I suspect the ISS might have a .mil address, so it might be the same as the warship one I posted earlier.

[RabblerouserGT]

I think I'll stop adding names. It's adding to the work.

Also, sorry for the delay! I seem to have had succumbed to weakness and fell asleep!

EDIT: Duuuude.
I thought the forums' servers were breaking!