Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek

Like any good uncorporation, breadpig aims to do things a bit differently. Last year, we published a tutorial for how LOLMagnetz generated $30,000 in profits (for charity, but profits nonetheless). We donated $15,000 to the SF/SPCA that December of '08 and the rest went back into Breadpig, Inc. to purchase more inventory and fund our next project, the xkcd book, xkcd: volume 0. Thanks to many of you who are reading this, the xkcd book has been (and continues to be) a great success! From the 3-stop book tour alone, we raised enough to build "the xkcd school" in Laos;...

Steve and I had the privilege of giving a keynote at last year's PyCon. Watch the video [steal slides here] for Steve's gripping account of the switch from Lisp to Python, see him artfully respond to questions about why reddit's search is so unsatisfying, and hear me get asked if I'll sponsor PyCon the following year (it's near the end of Q&A, when the audience decides to give Steve a respite). I said yes, albeit while put on the spot, but it was a "yes" nonetheless. I aspire to be a man of my word, so if you're attending PyCon...

We'll be publishing a 2009 Breadpig, Inc. profit & donation recap shortly, but there's an overdue "Thank you" due for ThinkGeek. For giving breadpig yet another feature in their catalog (I think this makes three times? Awesome!). We couldn't have given away $15,000 in LOLmagnetz profits last year if it weren't for ThinkGeek, proud distributor of LOLmagnetz. We love you, ThinkGeek.

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,...