1037: "Umwelt"

[Rythoka]

Perhaps there is a way to view the entire a1comics directory.

[pareidolon]

Wow, talk about an April Fools! I wouldn't have even guessed this if I hadn't visited the forum.

I live in Illinois, which is probably meaningful for my Firefox image:


But For IE I get this odd


I haven't gotten a multi-panel comic and I don't use any other browsers, so I can't see the "middle panel enlarging" thing for myself.

[Dobblesworth]

Windows 7 from Australia
Firefox (11?) and safe mode: Black Hat Man at a desk and being a classhole to a turtle
Opera and IE (not sure if most recent...): some sort of vortex
Chrome and safe mode: snake going through a Portal ^TM pair with White Beret Man riding

[JohnSmith1]

I take back what I said about the units. Seems like it is dynamically generated. Rythoka getting kilometers in Oklahoma must have been either a bug or some routing wackiness.

I'm getting 6 km (4 miles) in Toronto, Canada, while sardia above me got 3 miles (5 km) in Illinois. I wonder whether this figure is dynamically generated based on the population density? Anyone else getting different numbers?

[killminusnine]

Chicago, chrome:

[bekalm]

This is akin to the source. It will allow us, I presume, to post to our individual ones
I used chrome, went to inspect element and got the image from ghenkEggov8.
See what you guys can do?

I got this panel ...



what went wrong?

You only got one of the images, it seems. That's strange. My version does not have a dinosaur even when expanded.

[edit]
clearly you're screwing with me.

[DCB]

I'm in Boston on Mac OS 10.5

On Safari I get a comic making fun of 21, where the MIT students can't count cards. The comic is constant with respect to broswer size expcept at maximum window size there is an addition character added who points out the MIT students can't count properly.

On Firefox I get the snake comic and all the panels after the 1st one have multiple variations. Too many to list, I think each has like 3 or 4 layers showing depending on both height and width of screen, with the max screen showing all the possible easter eggs all together.

On Chrome I get the newspaper comic, which is constant.

[YttriumOx]

Here in Germany, with both Firefox 11.0 and Chrome 18.0 on MacOS X 10.6, I get this image:

The alt text is: "Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds."

With Safari 5.1.4 on the same system, I get that black one with the white circle that others have already posted. The alt text is the same as above, but with "Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your web browser" appended. Note this is slightly different to the one about browser window size.

[Würtz]

Ubuntu in Aarhus, Denmark - using Chrome:


Ubuntu in Aarhus, Denmark - using Firefox:

[Exkakx]

Wow, how any comics ARE there? This is like 15 comics in one

[JimsMaher]

This is akin to the source. It will allow us, I presume, to post to our individual ones
I used chrome, went to inspect element and got the image from ghenkEggov8.
See what you guys can do?

I got this panel ...



what went wrong?

You only got one of the images, it seems. That's strange. My version does not have a dinosaur even when expanded.

[edit]
clearly you're screwing with me.

lol

[kotofei]

Warship off the coast of Japan. Both Firefox and IE show



It's picking up on the .mil domain, I'm sure.

And don't worry, the launch window for the North Korean missile won't open for several more days.

(edit: fixed the image)

[Exkakx]

Also, the "next", "random", and "previous" buttons are rounded for this comic...

[jozwa]

From Ie:

On Firefox, in Finland, got this:

Got those and on Chrome (Win7):


So error messages all the way.

[cupcake123]

Firefox in the UK loads this for me...

http://tinypic.com/r/jkwvx1/5


I'm a new user (long time lurker) so not sure if I can post images

[EdoDodo]

In France, running Mac OS X, on Firefox, I get:

http://i42.tinypic.com/6z3nsl.png

In Safari I get the one about Northern Lights over Canada, and in Chrome I get the snake one.

[solarion]

This is actually really cool. It's one of those things where I think "Why has nobody ever done this before?"

Humour's so-so sometimes but conceptually I can't fault this thing. Kudos.

[JimsMaher]

Windows / Chrome

courtesy Adobe's BrowserLab

[Daeizer]

I'm in france using chrome and I got this.

http://imgur.com/JPasf

[Tewkesound]

Meanwhile, in the UK (On Firefox)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18562157/UK-XKCD.jpg

[Rythoka]

Using a User-Agent switcher, I've determined that I can only view two comics: The one about Oklahoma, and one small one-panel landscape.

I sincerely hope Randall explains the setup and allows all of the comics to be viewed tomorrow.

[effh]

Firefox in the UK:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/7e233a4ee44cb4b3e1eeb369ea971c9edc24de88039df3a565679e13848b09aa.png
Just to add to the list of panels that haven't already been mentioned.

[legend]

Wow, this is really cool.

In chrome I get the snake one.
In ff I get the one with the turtle.
In IE/opera/safari I get the white hole one.

But all of them have been posted here already.

[davean]

This is actually really cool. It's one of those things where I think "Why has nobody ever done this before?"

Humour's so-so sometimes but conceptually I can't fault this thing. Kudos.

I don't know but when I came up with the idea I knew I just had to do it.

[davean]

So now what I posted before isn't working. All the images have moved to a new URL that doesn't follow that nice pattern... Maybe it can help someone else who knows more?

Oh my, I completely missed your first post.

Does anyone here think Randall would use server resources to randomize the comic panel URLs every now and then to keep us from doing this? Sounds a bit crazy to me, honestly.

Randall? No.

Me on the other hand ... and it *is* April 1st so ...

[cupcake123]

This must be a record day for new users registering on your forums! Loving all the different comics though! Are there really different ones for every state?

[Luminary]

Mac user using Chrome... from Canada

Slightly different version of the Aurora comic... Lights above but also the reference to hockey hahaha...

[KrazyerKate]

http://tinyurl.com/UnweltXKCD <--We've got a google doc going compiling all the XKCDs for today. Y'all should add your info.

edit: aaaand the doc just blew up. Apparently this board has a lot more readers than the irc channel.

[scone527]

Here's what I got using Firefox in Burlington, Vermont:

http://i.imgur.com/BhoXA.jpg

[907Code-G]

Randall, I love you, and your wonderful Alaska themed comic for my Google Chrome. So excellent. Also, once again, not something I thought was a known topic outside of alaska, you seem to have localized knowledge of these places you did these for. And I got the snake one in Safari. I'm a Mac Snow Leopard guy in Alaska right now. Currently having boot problems with my linux bits and pieces, or I'd start screen capping those.
Also,

[Sysice]

Mac user in Alaska using Firefox. Safari gets me the snake picture.

http://tinyurl.com/77p2ywx

[King]

In the snake comic, there is an extra panel (containing a mirror image (minus the text) of the first panel. Apparently this snake has two heads.) that only appears for me if I stretch the comic past maximum size (1920x1080) and extend it onto my second monitor. I wonder if any of the other comics do this.

[GooglyBoogly]

I am in New Zealand and see the same thing as king. An extra panel on the snake comic if I zoom out enough.
If I use IE 64 bit I get the circle (it doesn't change if I zoom in or out)

[solacelost]

Warship off the coast of Japan. Both Firefox and IE show



It's picking up on the .mil domain, I'm sure.

And don't worry, the launch window for the North Korean missile won't open for several more days.

(edit: fixed the image)

Same image here, just finished cropping the screenshot to post.

I'm in Germany, signed in with my CAC right now.

[Jou]

Just for completeness,



Is the URL is generates for Germany, Seamonkey 2.8 on W7 x64 (link to the original instead of a screenshot).

Now that I know from this thread it is dependent on some things I hope I can find the rest.
My old "html 1.1" knowledge was enough to get me the link above, maybe I have to update it to the year 2012 now.

[Nyerguds]

Amazing. It even changes based on referrer; try following the link from the xkcd Wikipedia article.

[Brian-M]

Windows 7 from Australia
Firefox (11?) and safe mode: Black Hat Man at a desk and being a classhole to a turtle
Opera and IE (not sure if most recent...): some sort of vortex
Chrome and safe mode: snake going through a Portal ^TM pair with White Beret Man riding

Also Australia.

I've tried it with Seamonkey in Puppy Linux and Firefox in Xubuntu and got the Black Hat Man hooked up to the lie detector while being asked a hypothetical question about a turtle both times.

This is actually really cool. It's one of those things where I think "Why has nobody ever done this before?"

Humour's so-so sometimes but conceptually I can't fault this thing. Kudos.

How do you know it isn't happening all the time? Would you even notice? I've heard that Google does this a lot, and your search results can vary dramatically by location.

It's just in this case, people are meant to notice.

Does anybody know enough to look through the page source and see what's happening

I tried looking at the source with the view Page Source option, and I got the page source for the Reviews comic instead. So I tried Save Page and opened the page with a text editor and found three images (could be individual panels) with nonfunctional URLs. When I load the saved file in my browser I get no images.

Here's the relevant code:

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<div style="width: 515px; height: 262px;" id="comic"><div style="width: 515px; height: 262px; left: 50%; margin-left: -257.5px;" class="comic"><div style="left: 4px; top: 4px; width: 200px; height: 254px;" class="panel"><img src="xkcd:%20Umwelt_files/2a572fbbcda913d3284584f9d2a923585c4d5309b47387d06c47dfa4d8cd.png" style="left: 0px; top: 0px;"></div><div style="left: 208px; top: 4px; width: 126px; height: 254px;" class="panel"><img src="xkcd:%20Umwelt_files/071b716e160714d5807acc5475f985e166e52273ee0edea491cccd21e71d.png" style="left: 0px; top: 0px;"></div><div style="left: 338px; top: 4px; width: 173px; height: 254px;" class="panel"><img src="xkcd:%20Umwelt_files/1a9aa7fcb076f32b6d33cdf2ff6a4c91a4e047f85c0d913c52dcf21baa58.png" style="left: 0px; top: 0px;"></div><div title="Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your browser window." style="left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 515px; height: 262px;" class="cover"></div></div></div>

[MiffTheFox]

Fucking around with user agents in Chrome on Windows 7, Firefox gives me the snake, and Chrome gives me this:



XKCD. IT DOESN'T SNOW IN ALABAMA.

(Although if you changed the hurricane one to be about tornados I'd forgive you.)

[BlueNight]

Amazing. It even changes based on referrer; try following the link from the xkcd Wikipedia article.

From Wikipedia:
From Twitter:
From Facebook, Dinosaur Comics: nothing special
I finally got the April Fool's joke: I just stayed up an extra hour because of you, Randall. I missed sleep. Good prank.
(I pranked my church: I put five bulletins together with part of the text upside-down. I'll edit this post with the results tomorrow.)

[ygp]

In the snake comic, there is an extra panel (containing a mirror image (minus the text) of the first panel. Apparently this snake has two heads.) that only appears for me if I stretch the comic past maximum size (1920x1080) and extend it onto my second monitor. I wonder if any of the other comics do this.

I get the extra panel only when I resize the Safari window maximum width (or use full screen mode) on my 1680x1050 display. Is it possible the script detects when the window is as large as possible?