1037: "Umwelt"

[jakelin]

A new one, spotted in the Netherlands-

Darn it I was feeling all special for seeing one no one had mentioned! I opened the page and got this and was like hm another pretty one too bad there's nothing for April fools only to go to the forum (to find out the alt text (I'm on an iPhone).
Also got the earthquake one, which I thought was earllly specific beig an
Oklahoman from California and our crazy snow and earth quakes on the last two years

[Vanzetti]

In Israel I get the same hebrew comic no matter which browser...

[Soliloquy]

Looks like they've got one specifically for Las Vegas.



I've also got a variation on the puzzle piece one in Opera that I can sympathize with. (Yes, I downloaded Opera just for this comic).

[gaby426]

I am temporarily in Paris (France) but I'm from Montreal (Canada), it may explain why I have the Solar Storm causing lights over Canada in Internet Explorer, with the "It's cold out" answer.
I also have the turtoise-in-the-desert board in Firefox, but no turtoise in the last panel.

At last but not at least, I have a new one to offer that I got in Chrome :
http://i.imgur.com/Iz8Su.jpg
And the alt-text is only : Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually inhabit very different worlds.

For those who wants each panel :
http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/d67af5c5869732bd7b3624e8eca5c7127bc0a61b91b763e2d611e28bf4f0bb09.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/894dee4cd7e60a9b659f7cdc70b2d646141aa0898322035ff737f2df7019b1ec.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/33cc5ceaabbe4638808dbc45495df441c11eaef6a98c24064fe67d4213a472ad.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/50250cf38a7562ad40dd105c706f0f983565c39008159db1484da1148ce3ebfd.png

[jkp1187]

From an anonymous proxy server....


http://www.flickr.com/photos/48856068@N00/6889381652/in/photostream/lightbox/

[Misnomer]

Just clicked through from Xkcd's facebook page and got this:

[algorerhythms]

It would be even more fitting if the Oklahoma earthquake one had a tornado instead of a blizzard.

[chrynelson]

Sadness, Dallas' doesn't really work! I got the "HOLY CRAP IT'S AN EARTHQUAKE!"-"I guess we grow up tougher in California."-SNOW!! comic... but Dallas really doesn't do snow. Or on the occassion that it does happen, we PANIC! Dallas has INCREDIBLY HOT SUMMERS and, if you must, tonadoes.

That aside, this is a great April Fool's idea!

[SpringLoaded12]

I see the northern lights one, which is my favorite so far (New England, Windows 7 Home, Firefox 11, no referrer). It's a good message. That girl had better suck it up; New England is "cold out" from October through April.

This is pretty nifty. I'm interested in seeing the scripts that make this work, especially with the dynamic strips such as the earthquake one (unless there's just a different image of that for each state?).
Also, it'd be nice to see all the strips laid out on one page with a description of what determines which one you get. Maybe Randall will provide that on the blag tomorrow?

Looks like they've got one specifically for Las Vegas.

inb4 butthurt MIT students.
Although, some of the guys on my dorm floor do make me wonder if WPI's standards are lower than I thought they were.

[Dorp]

Not only did Randall remember that Alaska is a real place where people live, he gave us a helicopter-hunting wolf-riding badass while all the rest of you got silly comics about snakes and turtles. Randall knows where the real men live.

[Hebes]

This is what RIT Students are seeing this morning (well, at least ones using Firefox 11 on Windows 7)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/f86afa98e07d9e6cfbb1cbf7f6550dacf0ac61a056dc2435ec0e639c99f52d15.png

[redstart]

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

Umwelt-Germany.png

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.

I got this same one in central Virginia with Firefox 11.0, which is why I didn't get that there was anything funny going on at first... no idea what this has to do with my location.

[jwred5]

Got the Aurora one, but the first panel shows the guy saying "...visible even here in Oregon." Good to know someone out there realizes our state didn't die of dysentery!

[ammy55]

Arizona here, i feel so left out c-can Randal just not draw a dust storm?

[AislinKageno]

I'm located in Washington DC, and I get a comic similar to the earthquake/blizzard one, but the last panel is changed to refer to hurricanes. Accessing from Firefox 11 on Windows 7.

Edit: Also, I get the Lincoln-nanobot one when I open the site in IE9.

[Marslyr]

I'm at the University of Massachusetts, and we have a variation of a previous one with an abbreviated school name!

[FormicaArchonis]

I ran through my older browsers on my older boxes, including three Netscapes, and I hit this one:



Which is funny because that was the one browser on that machine that wasn't Netscape. I must've twerked the user-agent at some point.

[CALL-198]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/reviews.png

[solobutterfly]

My mind, it is blown. I can't even fathom how long it took to set up all those variations of variations of comics. I'm definitely going to have to keep my eye on that google docs and hope there's a somewhat organized way of seeing all the possible iterations at some point. This is just COOL.

[Sgore]

SUNY Albany student, but not currently on campus right now.
Anyone able to tell if they've got anything special for over there?
(We did kind of make national news for some embarrassingly destructive St. Patrick's Day partying incidents last year, and there's some neat nanotech research going on around here, but outside of that I can't think of anything he'd pick to make a specific comic about for us so I doubt he did...unless he combined the two somehow...)

[TheLupineOne]

Can anyone try looking at XKCD on their mobile phone browers, game console browsers, and handheld console browsers?
Edit: on my 2.1 Android, I get the "white hole" comic.

[ahammel]

I get the black portal thing with both Conkeror and Konqueror* on Fedora, which leads me to speculate that this is the "what the hell browser are you running?" comic.

_{*Yes, I have both of those. Shut up.}

[Colin OOOD]

In Israel I get the same hebrew comic no matter which browser...

Deep.

[Sgt.Artemis]

Fantastic comic(s?). A lot of time must've been put in to making this work.

For reference, Windows 7 x64, Sweden.
Chrome gets me the Snake one.
IE gets me the baclk one with a white centre
Safari on my iPhone gets me the black one with s white centre.

[neo cassady]

From Facebook, in Chrome

[bluejello]

Ubuntu 10.04 with opera gets me the white hole thing, and firefox gets me the snake comic. m.xkcd.com does not have this. Now to try it on my wii.
The wii got nothing, as in no image loaded.

[Tyrannosaur]

One of the most amazing comics ever! Although it is irking my ocd-- I want to see all of them! haha.
(openSUSE 12.1)
Opera 11.61 "There does not exist, nor could there ever exist, a plugin capable of displaying this content"
Firefox 11.0 A snake! Through a portal? There's an ELEPHANT in it!!! Haven't had Little Prince references in a while

[AndyHat]

On my Verizon phone over 3G: <img src="http://i.imgur.com/SecB9.jpg">

Over WiFi it gets the same comics as IE.

[pyronius]

Holy shit guys! It also changes if you view it on acid!

How did he do that!?

[AislinKageno]

One of the most amazing comics ever! Although it is irking my ocd-- I want to see all of them! haha.

You and me both, friend. I hope Randall comes out with an archive of all the comics after April Fool's is over.

[scifiknitter]

The Safari picture is just another point of view. This time from the inside.

[algorerhythms]

I think Randall must be reading this thread, because the Oklahoma earthquake comic just changed to a tornado. Awesome!

[AislinKageno]

I think Randall must be reading this thread, because the Oklahoma earthquake comic just changed to a tornado. Awesome!

*gazes up at the heavens* Dear Randall, if you're watching... Still holding out for that post-Fool's archive!

Also, speaking of post-Fool's, know what gag I liked the most? 90's Geocities xkcd. <3 That was a fun year.

[project2051]

I got the "too quite" one on Firefox, the "ring" white hole on IE. So I thought I would try my Kindle (keyboard) at first I got the first half of the snake one, then it changed to a plugin warning one, which read:
"This plugin requires clearance from the corporate press office in order to run" "Remember amazon is a team; individual employees should never speak for the company without authorization."

[acrooks]

Here is a compilation of comics so far.

http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/rnpym/xkcd_umwelt_nonpermalink/c479h3s

[Envelope Generator]

I tried on Dillo and got a segfault. Awesome. How did he do that?

[JetstreamGW]

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.)

Christ, I can't figure out how to get mine out of the source. It's only showing me the source for 1036.

Mine's like yours, but it says TEXAS instead of Alabama and has a Tornado. Firefox, Austin, TX.

I think Randall must be reading this thread, because the Oklahoma earthquake comic just changed to a tornado. Awesome!

yeah, I have this one, talking about Texas.

[Drooling Iguana]

Chicago, chrome:

I got the same one (Firefox,) but it said Toronto instead of Illinois, and "six more kilometres" instead of "three more miles."

Thing is, we got a pretty tame winter in Toronto this year, with barely any snow.

Also, the second panel shrinks and grows depending on the size of your browser window. Get it small enough and you only see the guy, with the girl's dialogue coming from off-panel (and the balloon-lines changed to reflect this.)

When I view the site on my Android phone (Galaxy S, Froyo,) I get the snake comic.

[EnigmaMTC]

Got this one on safari.
widening the window gets this.

Spoiler:

[Qaanol]

Here are all the panels I’ve gotten so far in Maine, in no particular order:

Chrome:

Spoiler:

Firefox:

Spoiler:

Netscape:

Spoiler:

Everything else I’ve tried:

Spoiler: