Um, I only read the first and last (i.e. 13th) pages of this discussion, but has nobody noticed the javascript file that immediately follows the image link in the source? My browser isn't parsing it nicely so neither can I.
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<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/time.png" title="Wait for it." alt="Time" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/static/time07.min.js"></script>
Looking at the js file as a block of text, it looks like it takes a rather circuitous route to update the file based on some complicated but arbitrary factors. A catch-me-if-you-can, if you will.
Seriously somebody must have noticed this already???
[edit, sorta]
Actually, they did: props to Quenty for noticing it:
http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?p=3302825#p3302825 And Rosewinsall:
http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?p=3302723#p3302723 And from El Gecko's comment, I can see that the filename itself changes:
http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?p=3302575#p3302575And Paulmiranda breaks it down a bit more
http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?p=3302608#p3302608 And Prosthetic_lips even further
http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?p=3302503#p3302503And curiously, I was going backwards in the thread, yet the analysis went deeper the earlier I went! (I stopped after page 8, starting at page 13)
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