0946: “Family Decals”

[JoinUsNowAndShareTheSoftware]

This comic reminded me of an rms quote (In response to the news that a colleague would not have as much time to devote to Emacs since the birth of his daughter):

It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.

Ignoring the pressure to start a family or even have any long-term relationship is the best choice for a lot of people but they don't seem to realise.

[Vertices]

In Brazil these stickers are known as the "kidnapper's catalog".

On another note, it surprises me that nobody has mentioned the obviously missing third car: the one with only a single guy, and boatloads of money.
(Disclaimer: I'm happily married).

[sexual_chocolate]

Can we PLEASE get this in the store? I would love to buy one.

[a13ean]

I'm pretty late with this, but my gf got these for our car this past summer: http://gotfork.net/images/Window%20decal.JPG

[Dodestar]

I'd still prefer the one on the left.

[merrak]

Sometimes it's tempting to buy a set of family stickers so I can go around adding random new members to people's families. I doubt they would notice for a while, if at all.

[CZeke]

That would be awesome. You'd be the decal equivalent of a cuckoo bird. (Ever read about cuckoo birds? Don't.)

[hardidu]

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http://i40.tinypic.com/2qcjipx.jpg

I credit XKCD 100% for this, but I loved the idea too much, and had to run with it. Plus, my family/baby-crazy in-laws will downright HATE it. And that, of course, makes me smile.

[Rickster]

What does the alt-text even mean?

My only guess was a reference to the Mouse Army, but I'm probably way off there.

It's an HTML tag. It's intended to say:

"print this text here" if you can't find the picture/image I really wanted to display here

If you mouse over the picture, most browsers will show you the text.

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<img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_com/images/srpr/logo3w.png"  alt="TEXT YOU SEE WHEN HOVERING" title="TEXT YOU SEE WHEN HOVERING" />

I tried to make a cool example with the google logo and hover text, but I couldn't figure out how to let the board take my BBCode code

[phlip]

Not quite, you're mixing things up. The "alt" attribute specifies the text that's displayed if the image can't be loaded - it's supposed to be an alternate representation of the information in the picture, so if the picture is missing, or you have a text-only browser, or a blind user using text-to-speech, or any other reason why you need a text representation of the picture, it's there. Meanwhile the "title" attribute (not just on images, on any HTML element) stores "extra" information, which is displayed by most browsers in a mouseover tooltip.

Referring to the mouseover tooltips as "alt-text" is a misnomer that dates back to the fact that ye olde versions of IE would display alt text in a tooltip (and didn't recognise the "title" attribute), so website builders would break with the intended usage of the alt attribute and put tooltip-appropriate text in there. IE has since corrected its ways, but the name has stuck.

[CZeke]

Uh, guys? Tiberius wasn't asking what alt-text was. He was confused by the text itself.

[jnrice]

Hey, when will I see this decal in the xkcd store?! I know I would put one on my car.

[hardidu]

Hey, when will I see this decal in the xkcd store?! I know I would put one on my car.

You can just build them online... Goto Familystickers.com and order the components.

[pjt008]

I guess I'm a little late to this party, but...

I made decals for my car that are guy + cat + bag of cash. I'd post pics but I can't do attachments or links as a newbie - can I point someone to them so they can post them?

thanks,
Peter in Vermont