The author says xkcd epitomizes everything bad about "nerd culture", but honestly, I think I could say the same about this blog post. Who really cares how accur

The author says xkcd epitomizes everything bad about "nerd culture", but honestly, I think I could say the same about this blog post. Who really cares how accurate Randall's description of OS X's system architecture is? It gets across the point of abstraction. Pedantry and misdirected anger (at a webcomic!) are a lot worse than a technical inaccuracy, in my opinion. And if the fans of the comic are annoying, that isn't xkcd's fault. Every popular thing on the web has hangers-on.