Astounding backstory behind XKCD's "Time"

I meant automagically. I was thinking of just setting it up in a nice place in my apt. and then…hey, those sand castle people are at it again!!!

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.

Ooh. Geeky hacking fun! My inner Radical Edward is squealing in joy and doing nipups! Thanks!

windmill are harder to put together than a steam engine

Actually the discussion was the construction of the technology itself, not the infrastructure to make it functional so I stand by my point. If it’s an acceptable suggestion to “sequester carbon in the form of clean-burning waxy nodules” for future use then why can’t you sequester electric motors and magnets? One is renewable and the other is finite… I know which I’d choose for rebuilding civilisation.

This one let me scroll through one at a Time.

http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/

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