Astounding backstory behind XKCD's "Time"

Actually, yes.

Using the at-your-own-pace viewer: http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/

The Playback Speed counter only allows you to go as low as 1 frame-per-second. However, if you open up the JavaScript console (on Chrome: View->Developer->JavaScript Console; on other browsers, Google it) you can discover that it’s simply setting a variable called “time.”

“time” is the number of miliseconds between frames. So if you type into the console

time = 10000

and hit “return”, there will now be 10 seconds between frames. If you type in

time = 3600000

there will be one hour between frames.