![]() ![]() Things in this book by page (Contents) īelow is the complete index of the book called Things in this book by page. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone-age 5 to 105-who has ever wondered how things work, and why. How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers).planes with turning wings (helicopters).the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table).the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates).the other worlds around the sun (the solar system).the shared space house (the International Space Station).In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including: Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In this way others can try to create simple explanations themselves. On the release day Randall also released a simple writer that would only accept the thousand words listed at the back of the book under The ten hundred words people use the most. These are listed in the explanation for the hoverboard comic. Several references goes back to the book from this comic. There are many themes and references throughout the game, but the two main themes are Star Wars (the largest part to the right part) and The Lord of the Rings to the left. If they are on a mobile device such as a smartphone, Cueball is controlled by tilting the device. But this is not done by clicking and dragging though, instead the user controls Cueball on a hoverboard (hence the title of the comic) by using the arrow keys, assuming that the user is on a desktop computer or a laptop. In the style of 1110: Click and Drag it was possible to move around in a very much larger picture than what was shown in the frame. But it was far from being a small or normal comic! It was the first "real" game comic released on xkcd (albeit not the first interactive comic). ![]() On the day of the book's release (even though it was a Tuesday) Randall also released the comic 1608: Hoverboard, which was a direct celebration of the book's release (it says so in the comic).
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