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Thursday Dec 17th in Cambridge, MA is your last chance in 2009 to meet Randall Munroe for a book/poster/raptor-signing. It's a free event, so please drop by.

XKCD VOLUME 0: THE SIGNING Thursday, December 17th, 2009 At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 26-100, 6:00 - 8:00 PM We had an extremely successful book tour shortly after the release of xkcd: volume 0 that raised enough money to build breadpig's xkcd school in Laos. And we're grateful to all of you who showed up to support xkcd and this project. But we didn't make it to Boston/Cambridge, which is particularly ironic because xkcd lives there. Well, now's your chance to meet Randall Munroe and pick up a special last minute autographed gift for someone special (or yourself,...

Rather ironically, I suppose, breadpig is a big fan of Buy Nothing Day. The rest of the year, we'd love for you to buy our products, though. But more to the point, if you can avoid traditional commercial gifts this year, the breadpig wholeheartedly supports you. Consider sending someone a kiva gift certificate (or making a donation to their favorite non-profit in their name), or creating something (even if you've got no talent, even something like baking is doable and oh so rewarding - especially if you, say, baked a pig-shaped bread loaf), or charting the perfect quest for a...

via blag.xkcd.com: Sales of the xkcd book continue to be quite strong thanks to glowing reviews (thank you!). And the breadpig recently learned that we'd raised enough from our fundraising book tour to get the xkcd school built! Now we need your help to dedicate it. You see, each school will have a permanent plaque installed with whatever Randall chooses. Leave your suggestions in the comments of his blag entry and we'll report back to you later this week when xkcd chooses the final dedication.

We couldn't have done it without you. We aimed to raise $32,000 for Room To Read to construct The Kengthan Incomplete Primary School in Laos (don't be troubled about the 'incomplete' part, that's just a tricky translation from Lao to describe the education level - it's going to be 100% complete when it's built). It wouldn't be very helpful if we built a school that, for instance, were missing two walls. Our fundraising events in New York and Silicon Valley alone brought in over $30,000 in generous donations from attendees, but we were pushed [well] over the top through book...