Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek

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...

After selling out (yay!) of the xkcd book, we had some printing delays over the last few weeks (sorry!) that have held up shipping for some of you. All books should have now been shipped, but if something seems very wrong, please forward your invoice to us. After getting your feedback on the xkcd blag, Randall chose the following dedication to be inscribed on the plaque at the entrance of the xkcd school in Laos; we think it turned out quite well: “Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses...

Breadpig has a crush on @mental_floss, so when Mental Floss asked us to post this entry, we didn't hesitate. Love makes you do things like that. On the brightside, it also means you have a chance to win a free copy of xkcd: volume 0. These four songs all make brief appearances (in one way or another) on one, best-selling album. What are the four songs and what is the name of the album they appear on? When you have the answer(s), send them to AnotherAwesomeMFContest@gmail.com.

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...