Randall Munroe came to CMU to give a talk yesterday. It was the most attended talk of the semester. Randall's talk was fantastic -- he said that he is trying to fill part of his bedroom with plastic balls (like in one of his cartoons). He also drew two mini-cartoons while talking, which was very cool. Finally, he set two very useful standards. First, he declared that punctuation need not go inside quotation mark (eg, did she say "I love you"?). Second, he declared himself president of the Internet (so that another evil person wouldn't take it.
I guess what I really like about Randall's talk (and about XKCD) is that it's a way to relax and reflect on being a tech person. It feels like The Daily Show for geeks.