Hidden Messages
I just found out that Abstruse Goose leaves hidden messages in his comic file names! Uggh .. checking out web comics is becoming more tedious now: must read comic strip, highlight over with mouse cursor to see alt-text for the first hidden message, and a few more clicks to find the file name for the second hidden message. What’s next? decode images for steganographic messages? I sure hope not 
May be I should build a browser plugin to automate all that…
Renato are discussing.
That is actually a trend in nerdy webcomics: PhD comics have the “Emergency Button” below and I guess xkcd has the same. And yes, I think Abstruse Goose had some deeper hidden messages in the past. Also, I don’t see the “second hidden message”. Where is it?
Oh thanks for telling me about that emergency button
I never saw that!
As for the Abstruse Goose messages, so the “first one” is the one you get when you hover your mouse cursor over the image (just like with xkcd). The “second one” is the actual file name for the picture itself, to see that, right click on the comic picture and select “properties” (or try to save the image somewhere and see).
For example, in today’s comic his file name says that his drawing represents how his room looks like while working, and previous messages were interesting as well