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- 12:58, 9 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+271) . . 1379: 4.5 Degrees (more refs for 60-80 m)
- 12:41, 9 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+262) . . 1379: 4.5 Degrees (mistake: 200 foot rise in Cretaceous Hothouse)
- 18:40, 7 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . 1378: Turbine (fix wikipedia link)
- 18:36, 7 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . 1378: Turbine (mechanical Work, not kinetic energy;)
- 15:06, 6 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . 1337: Hack (consolidate recent news, and put all the commentary above the transcript so it isn't missed)
- 21:10, 4 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 1377: Fish (pan over, not out)
- 21:09, 4 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+48) . . 1377: Fish (clarify earth's presumed situation)
- 13:37, 2 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+169) . . 1376: Jump (orbit)
- 15:06, 30 May 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+20) . . 1375: Astronaut Vandalism (copyedit)
- 18:00, 28 May 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+95) . . 1374: Urn (She might also want to have her grandfather back, and be playing with the word "replacement".)
- 13:36, 23 May 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+80) . . 1372: Smartwatches (copyedit, wikify)
- 16:14, 9 May 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+118) . . 1363: xkcd Phone (replace some overreaches)
- 13:49, 2 May 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+280) . . Talk:1363: xkcd Phone (Screaming when in free fall: my first Android app!)
- 12:16, 29 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+235) . . 1361: Google Announcement (google hat tip)
- 12:11, 29 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+168) . . Talk:1361: Google Announcement (dig google!!)
- 13:12, 17 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,632) . . Talk:1356: Orbital Mechanics (discrepancies)
- 15:05, 14 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-90) . . 1355: Airplane Message (simplify and avoid notion that only a pharoh name might break the record)
- 14:56, 14 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-97) . . 1353: Heartbleed (copyedit, revise some overinterpretations)
- 12:30, 11 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+209) . . 1354: Heartbleed Explanation (no need to authenticate)
- 12:55, 10 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+418) . . 1353: Heartbleed (point to diagnostic sites, clarify expanded discussion, fix punctuation)
- 14:07, 9 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+72) . . 1353: Heartbleed (clarify decryption risk)
- 14:03, 9 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . 1353: Heartbleed (not "signals" but "HeartbeatRequest messages")
- 12:35, 7 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . 1352: Cosmologist on a Tire Swing (wikify)
- 12:29, 7 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-61) . . 1352: Cosmologist on a Tire Swing (simplify, clarify)
- 21:04, 31 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+62) . . 505: A Bunch of Rocks (Label feynman diagram. Add a more worthy incompletion, the rest of which seems picky to me.)
- 14:33, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+193) . . Talk:1345: Answers (ffi)
- 14:31, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-253) . . 1345: Answers (add citation from talk, drop suggestion about avoiding nocturnal predators (they sleep also like all animals), modify notion of question-begging, avoid over-interpreting megan's statement.)
- 14:44, 18 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+36) . . 1337: Hack (follow news)
- 14:43, 18 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-188) . . 1337: Hack (news via NPR that johns hopkins is trying to establish control)
- 17:07, 17 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . 1343: Manuals (fix typo, clarify text)
- 13:52, 14 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . 24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey (describe godel's work a bit more crisply, don't assume who acts in final panel)
- 13:38, 14 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . 1342: Ancient Stars (lowered the estimate on number of stars to 4000. 5000-10000 seems high. we could use better citations here on what is visible under what circumstances to people with what visual acuity. other copyedits)
- 23:42, 12 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-11) . . 1341: Types of Editors (clarify usage of WYSINWYG)
- 23:36, 12 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . 1341: Types of Editors (avoid gendered pronoun)
- 16:48, 9 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-132) . . 1339: When You Assume (google ref is gone, well explained now I think, so removing incomplete)
- 16:34, 9 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-18) . . 1339: When You Assume (clarify more that it is a modified form of the proverb)
- 14:06, 22 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-31) . . 1333: First Date (fix punctuation)
- 14:29, 15 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+110) . . 1330: Kola Borehole (deepest point)
- 20:17, 4 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-7) . . 513: Friends (grammar)
- 20:14, 3 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+10) . . 1325: Rejection (remark = interjection)
- 20:03, 3 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . 1325: Rejection (like => want)
- 20:02, 3 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . 1325: Rejection (not an actual quote: remove quote marks)
- 19:51, 3 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 1325: Rejection (girl => woman)
- 19:49, 3 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-84) . . 1325: Rejection (simplify; remove most references to "jerk" - not used, complicates discussion)
- 19:24, 3 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+240) . . 1325: Rejection (negging)
- 19:15, 3 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+308) . . 1325: Rejection (baseball quote; passive aggressive)
- 18:50, 3 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+46) . . 1325: Rejection (fix typo in transcript, add link and "nice guys finish last" remove some overinterpretation)
- 13:59, 31 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+81) . . 1324: Weather (incomplete turkish archaeology)
- 13:44, 31 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+276) . . 1324: Weather (more on turkish archaeology)
- 13:37, 29 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-63) . . 1323: Protocol (copyedit)
- 13:30, 29 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+307) . . Talk:1323: Protocol (meta)
- 13:21, 29 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-5) . . 1323: Protocol (clarify intro)
- 14:58, 27 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 1322: Winter (copyedit, not monosylabic; avoid POV; ice, not snow)
- 14:41, 25 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-65) . . 1321: Cold (copyedit)
- 01:19, 21 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-224) . . 1319: Automation (remove odd reference to "following sentence" and unnecessary redundancy and vulgarities)
- 01:56, 19 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+199) . . 1313: Regex Golf (clarify a few points and wikify norvig)
- 14:48, 15 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-33) . . 1317: Theft (clarify some points)
- 15:34, 14 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . 1316: Inexplicable (finesse dealing with whether blanket return policies would allow haunted computers to be returned)
- 07:03, 10 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-69) . . 1052: Every Major's Terrible (not just lisp; reference repeat the past quote by santayana; clarify astronomy)
- 06:27, 10 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-42) . . 1052: Every Major's Terrible (drop notion that binary trees are related to chaos (at least that's not discussed in the link provided). Switch from discussing MBA (not mentioned by Randall) to business.)
- 15:47, 8 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+194) . . 1052: Every Major's Terrible (link to ben miller's performance and expand on the other one. no longer trivai)
- 15:25, 8 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+79) . . 1052: Every Major's Terrible (clarify refrain)
- 15:13, 8 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-214) . . 1052: Every Major's Terrible (update intro)
- 14:49, 8 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-13) . . 1314: Photos (reorder, streamline explanation)
- 14:53, 3 January 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . 1312: Haskell (→Explanation: fix grammar, clarify side effects)
- 14:28, 30 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+255) . . Talk:1310: Goldbach Conjectures (clarify "incomplete" and bots)
- 14:27, 30 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+16) . . 1310: Goldbach Conjectures ({{incomplete|surely not quite complete yet...}})
- 14:18, 30 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+11) . . 1310: Goldbach Conjectures (linkify prime, copyedit, use less ambiguous term "divisor" rather than "factor")
- 14:43, 25 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-121) . . 1308: Christmas Lights (clarify and rearrange the explanation)
- 17:28, 23 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+551) . . 1297: Oort Cloud (update after predicted earth passage; reference "In Memoriam". polish some of the text)
- 13:47, 16 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . 1304: Glass Trolling (fix voice command link - don't use)
- 13:46, 16 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-31) . . 1304: Glass Trolling (copyedit, tone down overly broad assertions)
- 06:17, 10 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-54) . . 1301: File Extensions (clarify various extensions, reduce redundancy)
- 13:19, 5 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+596) . . 893: 65 Years (incorporate astronauts from talk)
- 13:50, 4 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+17) . . 1297: Oort Cloud (burnt => ISON (broken up, with multiple tails))
- 13:45, 4 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+51) . . 1297: Oort Cloud (trivia=>perspective)
- 15:14, 3 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-63) . . 1297: Oort Cloud (try to incorporate more of the talk commentary and clarify the language)
- 14:47, 3 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-90) . . 1298: Exoplanet Neighborhood (Drop "new-new" sentence, unrelated to anything in the comic as far as I can tell, unexplained after being questioned on talk page.)
- 14:56, 2 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+251) . . Talk:1297: Oort Cloud (need cites for argument that they aren't comets or comet nuclei out there....)
- 16:56, 1 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+574) . . User talk:Dgbrt (→1297: oort cloud: comet nuclei, asteroids, etch: new section)
- 16:34, 1 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,121) . . Talk:1297: Oort Cloud (→When is a comet a comet?: new section)
- 16:33, 1 December 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-55) . . 1297: Oort Cloud (clarify comet nucleus vs comet (not asteroid), as described on talk page (please comment there if you disagree); oort cloud is part of solar system; clarify that we're not positive the object is ISON; clarify later visibility; copyedit)
- 14:12, 29 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+203) . . 1297: Oort Cloud (looks like P/2013 P5....)
- 13:59, 29 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+52) . . 1297: Oort Cloud (copyedit, clarify oort cloud and ison)
- 05:44, 29 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-107) . . 730: Circuit Diagram (→Explanation: delete exaggeration on arduino)
- 15:36, 28 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . 356: Nerd Sniping (→Explanation: ~= 0.77323954474 ohms)
- 15:43, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+177) . . 1296: Git Commit (→Explanation: unusual order)
- 15:13, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+64) . . 1296: Git Commit (Revise description of branching for clarity and to avoid unlabeled speculation. "final" doesn't necessarily seem related to production readiness - it could mark any sort of finality, but is more common in a commit comment than in a branch name)
- 15:56, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+10) . . 1295: New Study (remove incomplete template, remove my dup comic template, and clarify national geographic story)
- 15:25, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+210) . . 1295: New Study (→Explanation: add comic template, more systematic approach to related stories)
- 23:22, 19 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+429) . . Talk:1292: Pi vs. Tau (→What is the period of the wolfram answer?: new section)
- 15:29, 19 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+199) . . 1292: Pi vs. Tau (replace POV "trivial nature" comment with neutral summary. add ellipses to e+2 and 1.5 pi and correct final digit of e+2 (don't round off))
- 15:14, 8 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . 57: Wait For Me (wikify randall)
- 15:12, 8 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+15) . . 57: Wait For Me ("randall munroe can travel in time"!)
- 14:44, 8 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+349) . . 57: Wait For Me ('''about time''' from Discussion :))
- 14:13, 8 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . 57: Wait For Me (Special relativity)
- 14:11, 8 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . 57: Wait For Me (→Explanation: reformat and explain and link alternatives, drop "certainly...")
- 15:27, 5 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,033) . . explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals (→Increase support via prominent display of copyright and license for text submitted to explainxkcd: new section)
- 14:56, 5 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+148) . . 1286: Encryptic (demonstrate base64 encoding)
- 14:40, 5 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-19) . . 1286: Encryptic (move "hidden message" up into main description)
- 04:23, 5 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 1286: Encryptic (typo, formatting)
- 04:20, 5 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+293) . . 1286: Encryptic (snowden's password?)
- 04:08, 5 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+142) . . 1286: Encryptic (reference "crossword" solutions below)
- 04:01, 5 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,148) . . 1286: Encryptic (more background and clarity on password issues)
- 16:12, 4 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+395) . . Talk:1286: Encryptic (randall's 3des password?)
- 13:57, 28 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+277) . . 1283: Headlines (more on einstein; wording changes)
- 12:49, 16 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+109) . . 1277: Ayn Random (Arnold Vinick, west wing; fix typo)
- 02:15, 8 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+35) . . 1274: Open Letter (drop a conspiracy theory; many groups each with control)
- 14:32, 7 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-4) . . 1274: Open Letter (→Explanation: implicit argument against conspiracy theories)
- 14:17, 4 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+146) . . 1273: Tall Infographics (gizmodo)
- 13:57, 4 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . 1273: Tall Infographics (combine themes at the top)
- 13:48, 4 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . 1273: Tall Infographics (small amount of information visualized here)
- 13:46, 4 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+47) . . 1273: Tall Infographics (big data also about visualization)
- 13:11, 4 October 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+267) . . 1273: Tall Infographics (big data)
- 13:34, 30 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 1271: Highlighting (fix transcript typo)
- 13:11, 23 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+115) . . 1268: Alternate Universe (Cooked tarantula spiders are considered a delicacy in Cambodia)
- 13:05, 23 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . 1268: Alternate Universe (=>Daylight saving time (more google hits than savings time), wikify)
- 15:44, 21 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 1256: Questions (fix large version link, improve styling of title)
- 15:38, 21 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+133) . . 1256: Questions (list highlighted questions in panels first; put vertical questions in the same order; link to large version)
- 14:32, 21 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . 1256: Questions (bullet: terminal ballistics)
- 14:06, 21 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-7) . . 1256: Questions (until today => continues)
- 13:54, 18 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+243) . . 1266: Halting Problem (new "practial" answer inspired by talk page. and change practical => physical; theoretical => mathematical)
- 13:42, 18 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+143) . . 1266: Halting Problem (Heat death of the universe, spelling)
- 05:03, 17 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . 1265: Juicer (→Explanation: combine and contrast explanations)
- 13:23, 16 September 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-88) . . 1265: Juicer (drop early text about the vitamins being in the juice - that's discussed later. drop "ostensibly onerous" - not supported by the comic, drop attribution to "health freaks", no call for that.)
- 13:29, 20 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+29) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (wrong on dog planet)
- 13:16, 20 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+71) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (earth: tantalizing, put ref to 1231 as aside)
- 20:49, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+93) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (permadeath)
- 20:35, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+10) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names ("candidate planet" for kepler-1686)
- 20:33, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (Earth Similarity Index)
- 20:31, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+133) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (backup earth)
- 20:19, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+339) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (a few updates)
- 15:26, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+65) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (hot planet)
- 14:40, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+73) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (Note: Gliese 667 Ce is located in the habitable zone of the star system)
- 13:44, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+161) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (start table of explanations)
- 13:33, 19 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+89) . . 1253: Exoplanet Names (unicode snowman)
- 15:55, 14 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-66) . . 1251: Anti-Glass (remove unsupported interpretations)
- 14:26, 10 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+70) . . 1249: Meteor Showers (include title text for context)
- 14:22, 10 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+155) . . 1249: Meteor Showers (leonids and Time)
- 13:40, 10 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+94) . . 1249: Meteor Showers (just perspective, not gravity; nasa cite)
- 13:28, 10 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+95) . . 1249: Meteor Showers (clarify convergence observations)
- 13:20, 10 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . 1249: Meteor Showers (opaque roof => indoor lights)
- 17:21, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . N User:Nealmcb (link to me at wikipedia) (current)
- 16:55, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+170) . . Talk:1244: Six Words (kerbal! orbiter?)
- 16:54, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+157) . . 1244: Six Words (incorporate discussion point about use of kerbal by nasa folks.)
- 16:37, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+424) . . 1244: Six Words (I see no justification for rejecting the notion that kuiper belt could be the goal, and previous version makes more sense: Undo revision 45299 by Emurphy (talk))
- 13:12, 10 June 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+46) . . 1223: Dwarf Fortress (telecom surveillance; access to data, rather than storing it all. turing machine: theoretical not hypothetical)
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