My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.

Sometimes I read webcomics. I used to read User Friendly many years ago, and I read Sluggy Freelance religiously (once in 2001 I actually set aside an entire day to do nothing else but read the comics from the start to where I'd started reading). For a while I read Bunny. Now the only comic I read is xkcd. ghoti thinks I should read Ozy and Millie, too; I've tried a few times, but it's hard to jump in in the middle, and I don't have the time I had in 2001 to read things from the beginning.

I have sometimes thought of making a page which explains the joke in each xkcd for non-geek people (after all, occasionally I have to go and ask other people when the tables are turned). On the other hand, there are the xkcd forums to do that in already.

Sometimes I read A Softer World, which is the only place I know where the comics appear in more (or perhaps as many) dimensions simultaneously as xkcd:

1. The contents of the comic image
2. The mouseover text
3. In xkcd, the title of the comic, which is also the filename. ASW comics have titles hidden in their filenames which usually also give you an extra insight into the comic. (It also makes them a lot harder to read, though I suspect there's a greasemonkey script.)

ASW needs forums even more than xkcd does, though: xkcd is often clever and subtle, but either you get it or you don't. With ASW it's more like a poem, and quite often one of those kinds of poems where you read it and you want to run out and stop the next person on the street and say "Read this poem! Quickly! Savour it as fast as you can, and then tell me what you think it means!" Of course there's the LJ feed, but that disappears off into the bit bucket after a few weeks anyway.

So really I like thinky comics more than laughy comics, and that was what I wanted to say, and I should write my posts more readably rather than relying on stream-of-consciousness. And I would rather be a judge than a miner. The end.

Allow me to recommend something. You don't have to be a programmer to use it. It's fun and useful and you will be recommending it to others pretty soon. It's Greasemonkey.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on. When you install it, it lets you modify the way you see any page on the web you want. Every time you add a "script" to Greasemonkey, it changes the way you see and interact with a particular site; there's a big repository of scripts at http://www.userscripts.org.

For example, take a look under http://userscripts.org/tags/livejournal : one script lets you comment on posts without leaving your friends page, one lets you ignore your friends' posts which have a given tag, one displays the city which anonymous commenters with IP recorded come from.

You can get Greasemonkey here.