Triangulation 412: Randall Munroe: XKCD - Randall Munroe, XKCD
08/30/19 • 75 min
Randall Munroe is the creator of the greatest comic strip on the internet: XKCD, and the author of the new book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. He talks with Leo Laporte about how he got started making comic strips, the importance of not making fun of people for not knowing stuff, and the best way to generate letter pairs for kerning.
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Host: Leo Laporte
Guest: Randall Munroe
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Randall Munroe is the creator of the greatest comic strip on the internet: XKCD, and the author of the new book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. He talks with Leo Laporte about how he got started making comic strips, the importance of not making fun of people for not knowing stuff, and the best way to generate letter pairs for kerning.
Buy "How To": https://amzn.to/2ZzxGLM
Host: Leo Laporte
Guest: Randall Munroe
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