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Category: Announcements
Room to Read Picks Breadpig for Twitter Fundraiser
We’re thrilled to have been selected to carry the Room To Read torch for this Twitter #tweet4books fundraiser!
Apr 23, 2010 | View Comments | View Post
Pause. Take a deep breath.
We’re doing a long overdue redesign of breadpig.com. Things should be looking better come Tuesday. Do not be alarmed. Keep calm and carry on.
Apr 05, 2010 | View Comments | View Post
Did you hear? The xkcd book puzzle was finally solved! (no spoilers)
But if you want spoilers, we’ve got the link to the xkcd forum thread!
Mar 22, 2010 | View Comments | View Post
ThinkGeek now carrying xkcd: volume 0
It’s a little known fact that monkeys and breadpigs are naturally quite amicable with one another. Less known is that monkeys can be found riding breadpigs during their lunchbreaks as a means of sport, similar to that one Harry Potter plays with brooms. One result of this is the success of LOLmagnetz on ThinkGeek (who’ve [...]
Mar 18, 2010 | View Comments | View Post
The xkcd school in Laos is complete! Rejoice!
With over 25,000 copies of xkcd: volume 0 sold so far, breadpig is thrilled to announce that the xkcd school is complete! Thanks to all of you who helped get us here.
Mar 15, 2010 | View Comments | View Post
The reviews are in, xkcd: volume 0 is a winner
Thursday Dec 17th in Cambridge, MA is your last chance in 2009 to meet Randall Munroe for a book/poster/raptor-signing. It’s a free event, so please drop by.
Dec 16, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Meet Randall and grab a signed copy of xkcd: volume 0 in Cambridge, MA on 17 Dec
XKCD VOLUME 0: THE SIGNING Thursday, December 17th, 2009 At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 26-100, 6:00 – 8:00 PM We had an extremely successful book tour shortly after the release of xkcd: volume 0 that raised enough money to build breadpig’s xkcd school in Laos. And we’re grateful to all of you who [...]
Dec 11, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Don’t trust Santa to get you what you want, add something from breadpig to your wishlist (or surprise someone else!)
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 [...]
Dec 03, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Help xkcd Choose a Dedication for the School in Laos
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 [...]
Oct 13, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
We did it! You raised enough money to build our xkcd school in Laos
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 [...]
Oct 02, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
5,469 xkcd books sold in first week
Thank you! I’m not sure if this would rank xkcd: volume 0 on the New York Times bestseller list, but we’re certainly pleased with your response to the book. Our events in New York, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley were all packed with eager xkcd fans and we hope you had as much fun at [...]
Sep 23, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Borderlands Books: First Bookstore in the World Stocked with xkcd: volume 0
When the book was first announced in the New York Times, the very first bookstore to email us to stock xkcd: volume 0 was Borderlands Books, a San Francisco geek institution. Not only were we thrilled to have our book on their shelves, we could hand-deliver the first batch — they’re only a few blocks [...]
Sep 19, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
xkcd: volume 0 is now on sale
It’s out! xkcd: volume 0 is available for $18. We came in $1 under our target price. There’s also an option to get your copy with an autograph from Randy (ideal if you can’t make our initial fundraiser book tour). [Sorry for not making it more clear in this entry, but it was a limited [...]
Sep 15, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
xkcd Book Tour Announced
Can’t make it on the tour? Grab the book here, get a bunch of friends together, and roleplay. Dates of the xkcd book tour: Sept 19th @ 18:30 – New York (R2R event) [waitlist online] Sept 21st @ 18:00 (VIP), 19:00 for all – San Francisco (EFF event) [get tickets] Sept 22nd @ 19:00 – [...]
Sep 08, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
ScienceCommons $455 Richer Thanks To The DNA Of Internet Celebrities
The auction got another bump from ScienceCommons before bidding ended this afternoon at $455. I trust they’ll enjoy the ROFLDNA. This is breadpig’s second ROFL-success (last year’s ROFLaptop contest ended at $521 raised for OLPC) but this one-of-a-kind-DNA-artwork was the idea of Erik Martin, reddit community manager, troublemaker, and member of the breadpig honor guard. [...]
Apr 10, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
