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...t if you attempt to simplify a system of problems by creating a new system of evaluation for the problems you often have instead made the problem more co
...on the American {{w|Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard Time}}. In the rest of the explanation, EST refers to the comic's Earth Standard Time.
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| titletext = Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more b
...|Randall]] presents a mathematical argument against the idea of making fun of people for their ignorance. The mathematical argument, presented in the fir
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...int of the song is that it makes no sense to pick any major since they are all terrible!
...l}} is a military rank in the United Kingdom and many other countries. (As of August 2018, the title text has been changed to [https://www.youtube.com/wa
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...n websites such as mentalfloss.com. These quizzes normally have an element of challenge by presenting tonally similar quotes, such as "Who Said It: Ted N
...n this comic, Burns is substituted with Charlie Bucket, the main character of the 1964 {{w|Roald Dahl}} children's novel, ''{{w|Charlie and the Chocolate
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<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Cueball|Comics featuring Cueball]].''
...aracter design early in the comic's run. Several of the [[:Category:Cancer|comics about cancer]] also have Cueball representing Randall himself.
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This is a list of comics from 1001 to 1500.
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...der was recently converted from Episcopalianism and he's still figuring it all out.
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...g. Its art style is minimalist, told through simple [[stick figure]]s. New comics are posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and are accompanied by a [[T
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...ht does not exceed the capacity of the knapsack, and the combined value of all the items is maximized.
...e ones that, if a polynomial time algorithm is found for any of them, then all NP problems have polynomial time solutions. In short, particular guesses in
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...then was hurled sideways through the picture window. Even worse, it's one of those lamps where the switch is on the cord.
...tphone. They spot a lamp they like, check the price, and agree to buy, end of story.
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...east four extensions on it, which explains the little symbols to the right of the address bar. Extensions are small programs that install into your {{w|I
...titute/replace a string is "s", e.g. "s/old/new/g" replaces any occurrence of "old" with "new". The title therefore contains the command to change "keybo
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...onouns#Full list of personal pronouns|Wikipedia}} has a nice chart for all of English's personal pronouns, current and archaic.
...not the work is autobiographical is unknown. Also unknown is the identity of the person whom each work refers to. It is believed that Sonnet 18 is addr
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...ve it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well.
...rites 4chan into her next novel, thereby drawing in a large number of fans of her novel as a counter-attack to what 4chan ran on the Twilight forum. This
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...r or situation from a previous xkcd strip. In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial.
Most of the panels are references to previous xkcd strips, but a few are not.
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...r its small size and coming pre-installed with Linux. With a diagonal size of 11 inches, it would take a big hamster ball to carry it like this.
...ball from the inside. A {{w|webcam}} is connected magnetically to the top of the hamster ball, which connects to an rf link to transmit wirelessly to th
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...and downloads] page where a list of sources and the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png full image] can be downloaded
{{Quote| I had a huge amount of fun putting the money chart together. It was the first time in a long time
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...ically terrible baby names invented by Randall. It may relate to his other comics about why he shouldn't be allowed to have access to babies.
This is a list of the names with a short description:
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...ely: restarts) on December 21, 2012. This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the calendar used by the Mayan culture. Knowing
...the Mayans, because the world didn't end.{{Citation needed}} It is worthy of note that this comic was published nearly a year ''before'' the "significan
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...ck bold text for the labels on most of its products (usually with an image of the product as well as the brand name), although more recently, text in acc
The style of packaging might be a reference to ''{{w|The Prisoner}}'' TV series from the
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...nt and corresponding chart about school courses. The idea is, "the subject of the class appears in the classroom" and the chart compares how dangerous an
...ght are also mentioned. See details about all the subjects in the [[#Table of subjects|table]] below.
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...rson deciding to sentence him to death, instead of confirming his position of Internet Secretary. Black Hat replies that he was "never interested in taki
...plain why Black Hat was nominated as Internet secretary. These are all the comics in [[:Category:Secretary|Secretary series]]:
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...just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wildly inaccurate data which traced back to...
...isinformation but make said misinformation seem reliable through a process of "circular reporting".
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...p games), but in last night's game their win seriously damaged the chances of the Yankees (longstanding rival team)."
...dge domain. Cheat sheets are commonly used in mathematical applications to list important formulas or for measurement conversions; but they may also be use
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This comic consists of a chart where [[Randall]] has plotted {{w|fruits}} according to two criteri
...rated a lot of discussion. That comic indicated that Randall had [[#Change of taste|changed his taste]] over the years. Later, Randall suggests using a [
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...hich would mean the winner gets to donate the prize money to their charity of choice. In the fifth panel Fillion, takes the phrase and twists it to mean
Electric skateboards have been the subject of several other comics like [[139: I Have Owned Two Electric Skateboards]], [[409: Electric Skateb
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...ecause it is so big and there are so many different things happening in it all at once. [[Cueball]] comments about this while hanging from a balloon, whic
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...a password is. It is calculated as ''log2(a^b)'' where ''a'' is the number of allowed symbols and ''b'' is its length.
...ressed with log2(65000*94*94), with 65000 representing a rough estimate of all dictionary words people are likely to choose. (For related info, see https:
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| titletext = What's the complexity class of the best linear programming cutting-plane techniques? I couldn't find it an
...e shortest one. However, this approach will take a long time as the number of possible routes increases superexponentially as more nodes are included.
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...rticle is about the text at the bottom of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. For comics featuring footnotes, see [[:Category:Footnotes]].''
...e's history, with a gap of 22 days without any footnotes after the removal of the original footnote.
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...comic refers to the study of {{w|cryptography}}. We can note the presence of the {{w|International Association for Cryptologic Research|International As
...o ensure that the process can eventually be reversed. One common component of round functions is the {{w|S-box}}, a simple table that converts input byte
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...nch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.
...ct he has found out that the {{w|inland taipan}}'s has the deadliest venom of any snake (see [[#Snake venom|more]] below).
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| titletext = The Wikipedia page List of Numbers opens with "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it."
...ion). Negative numbers may be called imitator numbers in the comic because of their similarities to positive numbers.
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| titletext = The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good rea
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...aster, it must, as a result of {{w|Bernoulli's Principle}}, create an area of lower pressure above the wing; this causes {{w|lift (force)|lift}} (that is
...eory is true, can planes fly upside down? (If the simple airfoil theory is all that permits planes to stay up in the air, then flying upside down should r
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...structure, or any number of other kludges and hacks which turn maintenance of the code into a nightmare; or else it is written well and beautifully struc
...rse, the writing of this new program is also locked in the perpetual cycle of choosing between ugly/bad code that works marginally well, or good/pretty c
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| titletext = As of this writing, Ubuntu 6.10 and Firefox 2.0 have left my computer a complete
...imated television shows, a {{w|collectible card game}}, and a whole series of video games. The premise is that a young "trainer" goes out to explore the
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*A larger version of this image can be found [http://xkcd.com/657/large/ here].
{{notice2|SPOILER ALERT!! If you do not wish to read spoilers for Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Primer, please [[Special:Random|do
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...[Megan|Megan's]] question, about a proof that there are an infinite number of {{w|prime numbers}}, in {{w|haiku}}. After the first line she floats up and
...mself in his ''{{w|Euclid's Elements|Elements}}''. A more traditional form of this proof follows:
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| titletext = I am firmly of the opinion that if something doesn't have a year on it, every time the exp
...bly no longer be suitable for consumption. This could be due to any number of reasons; most products will rot or grow mold after their expiration date pa
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...the {{rw|Moon_landing_hoax|Moon landing hoaxers}} are at the receiving end of [[Randall]]'s pen.
...y ''BigMike133'' confuses the {{w|Space Shuttle}} (which was never capable of landing on the Moon) with the {{w|Apollo Lunar Module}}.
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...ully executing the hack, he realizes that he does not know what to do with all this power.
...has proven this. He could use his power to realize his sadistic pleasures of messing with people, but he's already a serial [[72: Classhole|classhole]]
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| titletext = Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required readi
...s comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by a {{w|fractal}} of blogs.
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A [http://xkcd.com/802_large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on xkcd.
This comic shows a map of internet communities where the size of each region roughly corresponds to its size, and its proximity to other reg
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...n Basin is being flooded. They run back to their home, assemble the people of their village, and board a makeshift raft. At the end they reach land with
.... The comic on xkcd.com today currently loops through the last five frames of the comic.
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...readers doing things like breaking hashes, edited a rapidly-shuffling set of target Wikipedia articles, and donating to Wikimedia Foundation. (The vanda
...isn't a static image - even the title text changes depending on which part of the image you're hovering over. It presented a competition for students to
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...imparted by orbital motion (or gravity assists or the Oberth effect), all of which can make it easier to reach outer planets.
...of gravity decreases with distance from the planet. However, a comparison of energy expended to escape the gravitational pull allows for a simpler compa
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{{List of comics}}
...is page, but they can be accessed using the links above. A simpler list of comics can be found on the official [https://xkcd.com/archive xkcd archive].
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...s ago on earth. The delay is due to the time that it takes for expressions of the meme to travel (presumably via radio waves) to distant star systems.
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..., whether directly or through an independent organized vote, in the naming of planetary satellites, newly discovered planets, and their host stars."
...ppropriate entries that don't meet certain criteria. This implies that the list would have been even worse if presented in its unfiltered form (as seen bel
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...lse assumptions, such as "Why are there pyramids on the moon". Originally, all these questions and many more (33,171 in total) could be found at http://xk
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...e flexibility and power of abstract mathematics with the intuitive clarity of abstract mathematics.
...m of computer programming with roots in {{w|Lambda Calculus}}. Core tenets of functional languages often include: function application and composition, d
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...]e|[mtg]a|j|iso|n[hl]|[ae]d|lev|sh|[lnd]i|[po]o|ls/ matches the last names of elected US presidents but not their opponents.</nowiki>
...ar expressions have been mentioned on xkcd in [[:Category:Regex|many other comics]].
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.... At noon and midnight, the break between segments is indicated by the tip of a dark grey triangle.
...each hour), so that the picture is always correct for the nearest multiple of 15 minutes.
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...f stars you see is probably many thousands of years old' is a rare example of laypeople substantially OVERestimating astronomical numbers.
...that star to reach Earth. However, the brightest star {{W|Sirius}} is one of the nearest at a mere 8.6 {{W|Light-year|light-years}} distance. In other w
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1350|original comic}}.
This was the fifth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous April fools' com
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| titletext = We will have an entire wing of the library devoted to copies of book #26, because ohmygod it's the one where Jake and Cassie finally KISS!!
...collapses. But in Randall's version, the experts have made a list composed of many books from the {{w|Animorphs}} series.
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.... First, we'll need a gigantic spool of thread. Next, we'll need some kind of... hmm, time to head to Seattle.
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...ost to her. When the tournament began, he promptly became the first member of said club, and over the years it accumulated a large and illustrious roster
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...ion}}'s (NCEP) rainfall to determine where the hurricane was present. Most of the hurricanes are listed by their US reporting names, with hurricanes befo
...s in each of the regions who are old enough to have been alive through all of these is quite a daunting task. In principle, this would be the only way to
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| titletext = The days of the week are Monday, Arctic, Wellesley, Green, Electra, Synergize, and the
...items in the sets without noticing, to the point where, when attempting to list a single set, each item mentioned actually belongs to a different set.
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...strate this situation, and for $25 I promise not to take further advantage of this ability to create incentives.
...he way. The trolley can be diverted by using a lever, with the consequence of saving the 5 people but killing the 1 person.
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| titletext = He probably just poops over the side of the sleigh.
...some basic {{w|physiology}} with the physical law of the {{w|conservation of mass}}.
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...bolt, but you only brought screwdrivers, you can try sandwiching the head of the bolt between two parallel screwdriver shafts, squeezing the screwdriver
...n}}, however appliance makers keep designing increasingly strange {{w|List of screw drives|screw heads}} and users keep acquiring increasingly strange sc
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1506|original comic}}.
This was the sixth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous fools comic was
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...dall found his own method to determine which words would go on his list, a list that is revealed in the book. (It can also be found [https://www.xkcd.com/s
...so the [[#Things in this book by page|entire index from the book]] listing all the 45 different explanations.
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...gic 8-Ball}} using {{w|emoji}} instead of words. "Emojic" is a portmanteau of "emoji" and "magic".
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...ferent films. It may be relevant that the film {{w|Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice}} was soon to be released at the time the comic was made where the
...als (perhaps including [[Randall]]). The final grouping on the lower right of the bracket features a several retail stores and a film.
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...ers a singed photo of Richard Stallman. They stare in silence. "This," one of them finally says, "This is a man who BELIEVED in something."
...ing Systems to mobile can be observed. Beyond the present day, we see some of Randall's humorous predictions as to which technologies and companies will
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| title = The Rise of Open Access
....342.6154.58 PDF version] is still available on the site. A larger version of this image can be found [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/the_r
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:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:LiveJournal comics|LiveJournal comics]].''
...drawing this comic full-time. It's immensely fun and I really appreciate y'all's support.|[[Randall Munroe]]}}
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| titletext = My country's World Cup win was exciting and all, but c'mon, what if the players wore nylon wings and COULD LITERALLY FLY?
...have not been satisfactorily answered or proven by anyone in the {{w|List of unsolved problems in physics#Astronomy and astrophysics|scientific communit
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...ld be considered a planet. Pluto was considered a planet for a long period of time until, in 2006, the {{w|International Astronomical Union}} (IAU) creat
...Pluto a planet?" will therefore always be "yes", regardless of the status of the Pluto in our Solar System according to the IAU. However the same [https
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...th [https://www.google.com/forms/about/ Google Forms], containing a series of questions. The questions range from mundane typical survey questions such a
...e to play with”. A strange data set is a ripe opportunity for a sampling of readers. It's also supposed to be “a search for weird correlations”...
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| titletext = And when I think about it, a lot of "things I want to do" are just learning about and discussing new tools for
...dated; apps themselves might need to be updated, which can create all sort of incompatibilities which the geek then needs to spend time fixing. One term
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1608|original comic}}.
...egory:Interactive_comics|interactive comic]] made to celebrate the release of [[Randall|Randall's]] new book, ''[[Thing Explainer]]'', which was released
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...getting my baking soda and vinegar mountain added to the Decade Volcanoes list.
...science for the lower grades but rather a childish experiment in the hands of older students.
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The first of two [[:Category:Christmas|Christmas comics]] in a row, as it was followed by [[1621: Fixion]].
...le in the spirit of Christmas (as he usually does in [[:Category:Christmas|comics released]] close to said holiday, this one being released on December 23rd)
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...ember a time before as "new", this often provokes a feeling of age and out-of-touchness.
...s] to feel old". Without waiting for a reply he starts to make such a list of things that will turn 10 and 20 years old in 2016, before he is interrupted
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...our roads will be full of uncontrollably-swerving cars and our skies full of Amazon delivery dogs.
...g the news more fun. But there have been several [[:Category:Substitutions|comics using substitutions]] both before and after these ones.
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| titletext = Superman lies near the bird/plane boundary over a range of distances, which explains the confusion.
...l {{w|dwarf planets}}. See for instance also explanations, for the layman, of the results here: ''[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astrono
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...estament}}). (See the [[#Trivia|trivia section]] regarding an on-line list of duos).
...re mentioned (they go through four [[#Cycles|cycles]]). (In the title text of [[1644: Stargazing]] from the week before this comic, there is an indirect
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1663|original comic}}.
This was the seventh [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous fools comic was
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...a museum--it's just an area near the Lake Festival Laser Show where a lot of planes have crashed.
...bleak"). While some of the topics are normal for a talk page (e.g. "Origin of city's name"; "Discuss: New picture") others are increasingly absurd. The t
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.... If we can't figure it out, maybe we should just give up and just replace all the portraits on the bills with that weird pyramid eye thing.
...t summarize and ridicule the recent controversy over the upcoming redesign of US currency. The dialog between the US Treasury and reporters is paraphrase
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...continents?" downwards), the comic applies to a political map.) While many of the options are very serious, a few bizarre options reference fictional map
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...ity and terseness found in many man pages, making fun of the typical style of the genre.
*Synopsis: a synopsis of the valid command line formats
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...rs, so it will be possible to easily continue with the explanation of each of the remaining figure. I'm not sure I will be able to continue with this wor
...have completed the descriptions for characters 647-1000; however, for many of the characters, verification and/or alternate explanations might be necessa
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...omics]] so they can be used in the explanation of each of the [[1000: 1000 Comics/1000 characters|1000 characters]].
*In about half of the images below <font color="red">'''red numbers'''</font> going from 1 to
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...g comic: [[1379: 4.5 Degrees]]. By having readers scroll through millennia of slow-paced natural changes, Randall uses the comic to confront the rapid te
...s, called {{w|Climate change denial|climate change deniers}}. One argument of theirs is that global warming is happening for natural causes, summarized w
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...those Independence Day ships and interpret the rest of the image in light of that.
...very dramatic and would not be realistically possible. It may be done out of ignorance, or knowingly by taking {{w|artistic license}}. As someone intere
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...everal of the same rare letter in a row. (See [[#Table of life goals|Table of life goals]] below).
...ing the artist's name of a musician. All later entries have at least three of these letters, which are most often used in very strange, often difficult-t
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2067|original comic}}.
...m the previous election could occur. It is the second of three consecutive comics that deal with this election.
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This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a Tornado Safety T
...nt of a tornado, such as "stay away from windows," "go to the lowest floor of your home," "if in the open, take shelter in a ditch," and so on, see these
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| titletext = Once you've done this, make a note of how old they were. Then, when their age reaches double that, show them this
This is yet another comic designed to [[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|make people feel old]], following soon after the last
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...after this comic, and had been widely reviled on the Internet for its lack of original plot, characters, and jokes.
...ing with the presumption that somebody had to make a film about a "section of Unicode".
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...States] make these issues seem rarer, thus making it funnier. Below is the list.
...e distinction between an object's identity and its label, e.g., "The state of Texas (identity) is named Hexxus (label)", though you can argue that "Texas
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...in which case it gets converted to voicemails, and I think I'm locked out of my voicemail.
...l number for his business). But this number is useless as it just forwards all calls directly to #1, the cell phone.
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...ll caps font, except for the word "xkcd" in the logo image. Here is a list of the changes that have been made:
....org/web/20060710090528/http://www.xkcd.com:80/ July 10, 2006], the design of the website changed dramatically to one very similar to the current one.
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...s disproportionate focus on Finland, Mongolia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
.../imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bad_map_projection_time_zones_2x.png bigger version] of this image can be found by clicking the image at the comic on [https://xkcd
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| titletext = I'm one of the few Instagram users who connects solely through the Unix 'talk' gateway
The comic consists of an {{w|Euler diagram}} showing a wide variety of {{w|Online chat|chat systems}} and their intersections. (Euler diagrams sho
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...n candies with these flavorings, it's likely that this is Randall's rating of artificial flavors rather than the actual products.
...lly the pink fruit that is rated for both colors, or the chart is a rating of candy (such as jellybean or popsicle) flavors, as it is not uncommon for bo
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...any luminosity, the teapot would be very easy to confuse for other pieces of space debris, and the space to search is extremely large; the task is thus
...upon a person making unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others." As such, Russell's teapot is very often used in atheis
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...l eclipse across the entire contiguous United States and beyond. The other comics are [[1876: Eclipse Searches]], [[1877: Eclipse Science]], [[1878: Earth Or
...then the rest of the points would be on the x-axis without any indication of which would be cooler.
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...these phenomena happened within weeks of each other for observers in much of the US - a coincidence that Randall celebrates.
...tates}}. Randall already made [[:Category:Total Solar Eclipse 2017|several comics about this eclipse]] and had traveled to Missouri to witness this for himse
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This comic draws parallels between the act of emptying a physical rubbish bin and emptying the {{w|Trash (computing)|recy
...erating system, or user error. The user then is required to find the cause of the problem and rectify it before the file can be deleted. This may be diff
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...y concerns; be assured that our phones will never store or transmit images of your face.
...he comic plays with many standard tech buzzwords, and horribly misuses all of them, to create a phone that sounds impressive but self-evidently isn't to
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...ems any easier to tackle in the first place. The comic questions the usage of spreadsheets for anything beyond organization.
...ount() function to find the number of problems to be solved, but since one of those problems is not knowing how many problems she has, it is trying to in
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| titletext = Where I live, one of the most common categories of sky object without a weird obsessive spotting community is "lost birthday p
...ases}}, although these planes are in fact registered to the {{w|Department of the Air Force}}, rather than a holding company.
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...side the Solar System, we should immediately launch a mission to fling one of our asteroids back in the direction it came from.
{{w|ʻOumuamua}} is the first detection of an [https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/faq/interstellar interstellar ast
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...to be corrected for by GPS satellites / is now recognized as a major cause of World War I).
...ded}}. The facts are seeded by a mishmash of common tidbits about the time of year.
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...ey didn't take seriously? Hitler. I'll be like him, but a GOOD guy instead of…
...nbox that can result from this. The emails get more and more absurd as the list goes on. For example, the last one combines a request for campaign contribu
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...we give "generations" while also predicting some future names. The release of this comic coincides with the [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03
...c., by substituting other letters or characters that would seem emblematic of the time period.
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...tteries tend to be something of a problem, and he references this in other comics as in [[1373: Screenshot]], [[1802: Phone]] and [[1872: Backup Batteries]].
...to correct the misconception at all; however, following the internal logic of the comic, the second person also communicates via banner plane. (This is a
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*A large version of the comic picture can be found [https://xkcd.com/1970/large/ here].
..., different matches are made at each end of a domino. Fun fact is that two of the people are "named after" the game: {{w|Fats Domino}} and {{w|Domino Har
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1975|original comic}}.
This was the eighth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous April Fool's com
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...roposed by Randall, though they do have the [https://oeis.org/A000053 list of subway stops on the New York City Broadway line (IRT #1)], perhaps because
;sub[43] - All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence
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...ple for one dollar feels to her more like a simplified, imaginary ''Idea'' of a transaction (a "{{w|Platonic Ideal}}") than like something that could act
...ht. Then, when doing real problems in the real world, one spends the rest of one's life almost never being able to use the simplified tricks demonstrate
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This comic shows a graph (a 100% stacked area chart) of incoming phone calls over time to [[Randall]] since he was older than six y
...require the caller to enter the number once, greatly reducing the chances of accidentally entering a wrong number in general and eliminating the possibi
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...we're making disappointingly little progress toward the obvious next stage of vehicle: The Unobtanium-hulled tunneling ship from the 2003 film 'The Core.
...ip flight. (This was at the time of release of this comic on November 19th of 2018, a month before the 115th anniversary for the first airplane flight).
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...er. Sure enough, Cueball sets the computer down and offers a detailed list of the arcane problems his computer is giving him.
...material to contract, and it is this mechanical expansion and contraction of the material over repeated charging cycles that damages the battery, reduci
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...} search activity by date and region. Used properly, it can give a picture of what topics people are interested in (as evidenced by what they search for)
...though not reflecting the same time period across all maps). However, none of them seem to show any especially ''useful'' comparisons. States in gray did
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...link to a [https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_of_128.png image of the results].
This was the ninth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous fools comic was
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...updated whenever [[Randall]] has news to share. However, after the novelty of the news ends, the page usually goes back to its default header text, which
...tended periods though. The most recent header text can be found at the top of the [[Header_text#Global_header_text|Global header text]] section, if it ha
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...in Google Sheets. I replied with a single-cell formula that took in a list of dates and outputted a calendar. It used SEQUENCE(), REGEXMATCH(), and a dou
...on his computer, with an {{w|Shoulder angel|angel and devil on either side of him}}, trying to influence his work. The angel is telling him to do things
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...games (see [[#List of games|List of games]] below). At the bottom of this list, 2nd to last, he chooses to click on ''{{w|Super Mario Bros.}}'' which the
...e constant upkeep and communities change with time, and the digital worlds of video games, where everything is static until the plot demands otherwise. A
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...The keys to successfully throwing a party are location, planning, and one of those aircraft carrier steam catapults.
*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2198|original comic}}.
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...explanation by linking either to a section on this page with certain types of images or by linking directly to pictures that can be uploaded on this page
...w To]]'' book. So for three days (from Tuesday to Thursday) the front page of xkcd looked like this with both header promotion and promotion comic on the
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...https://milklife.com/articles/nutrition/types-of-dairy-milk other sources] list similar but not identical numbers such as 3.25%.
...s "{{w|dark energy}}" accounting for the increasing speed of {{w|expansion of the universe}}.
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...matically gets one point; luckily this has no consequences except in cases of extremely low turnout.
...While the referendum is asking voters to select a method from a long list of methods, a referendum is usually presented as a specific proposal which req
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...vious strips will be retroactively un-CC'd and relicensed under UFS terms. All online content will be protected via proprietary DRM. I also recieved a let
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...the film (or, if he has, he doesn't actually want to spoil it for us), all of the so-called spoilers are nonsensical.
...r's new superweapon, the '''[superweapon name]''', a space station capable of '''[evil plan]'''. They unexpectedly join forces with their old enemy '''[c
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...hat it began in 1839 as "O.K.", a fanciful abbreviation for "oll korrect" (all correct).
...almost never thought of as an abbreviation anymore. The original spelling of the word as "O.K." with periods after the letters is less commonly used in
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...ytail may be expressing a belief that nothing bad could happen as a result of the upgrade, and not expecting an answer.
...n be found below. Ponytail facepalms at her friends' overly-literal senses of humor.
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As [[Megan]] is telling [[Cueball]], separate species of animals have evolved into "crab-like" forms at different times. Naturalists
...ilar adaptations to their environments, despite being 'stranded' offshoots of different forerunner pelagic species.
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...e proof of the Poincaré conjecture is that Grigori Perelman will come out of retirement to try to fix it by drawing a loop around the hole and contracti
...matics, a sort of successor to David Hilbert's {{w|Hilbert's problems|list of 23 problems}} announced in 1900. The seven problems are:
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| title = All-in-One
...w performs them in that order instead of the reverse, saving a HUGE amount of CPU time.
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...st, the last two of which devolve into absurdity - perhaps from the stress of preparing the other 78 entries.
...d.com/2379/sources/ these sources], as mentioned in the bottom left corner of the comic.
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...ers which could be placed anywhere on the comic itself by a player. A list of these stickers is collected below.
...e specified, the first column of any entry can be substituted for the part of the link X’ed out to show the image.
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2445|original comic}}.
This was the 11th [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous fool's comic was
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...are scattered on a road to slow down someone pursuing you. Hence the title of ''Wikipedia Caltrops''.
...ar to a weaponized version of [[356: Nerd Sniping]], using the high levels of focus that tend to come along with nerdy interests against someone. Munroe
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...to say "next slide, please", but these requests would have been edited out of the historical transcripts. The comic imagines the places where the slide b
...y instructions for a slide projector operator. See details in the [[#Table of quotes|table]] below, including the quote in the title text.
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{{List of comics}}
This is a list of comics from 2001 to 2500.
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...e reviews are useful for consumers trying to choose among the wide variety of products available.
...the importance of specific practices or belief in specific creeds. Members of those religions might not recognize a reviewer as having truly "tried" thei
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...header text after the end on January 31, 2022. It was not a permanent part of the header, and was removed once the [[Header text|header text]] was change
*On January 10th 2022, [[Randall]] added a countdown in the top right corner of the [[Header text|header text]] on {{xkcd}}.
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...ies ''{{w|Star Trek: The Next Generation}}'', which is focused on the crew of a starship. The ship is equipped with {{w|Replicator (Star Trek)|replicato
...implies that the display shows each part of the order, and provides a list of options for the next step.
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...ither uninformingly similar to each other, as an extremely generic diagram of a biological cell, or made to look somewhat like the item spoofed by the de
No parody, except for the very vague diagram of a cell with a perinuclear region within it that could also just be a fried
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...true 100% efficiency, barely touching the water, and it can even lift off of the surface and fly to more efficiently pursue fleeing hubristic liners.
This comic humorously plays with the idea of efficiency in a typically absurd and satirical "Black Hat" fashion. Black H
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This interactive game is the 14th [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous April fools' com
* the cat, which swats balls in front of it
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...generally allowed to do certain things for the first time. These are a mix of legal restrictions (such as the age for driving and voting), rules from pri
...es#/media/File:Restricted license age requirements by US state.svg|In most of the country, 16 years is the minimum age for a restricted driver's license.
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Randall searches for various terms that are composed of some common prefixes and common suffixes, but not always commonly associate
...Ducking just below 1 million hits is fourth placing {{w|Marine Biology}}. Of the 42 possible fields just 14 have more than 100,000 hits, and only four m
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...are either three or five consonant letters between every consecutive pair of vowel letters in the alphabet. Forming these supposed design notes are many
...rs would change ("be ruined") if they got together, subverting the meaning of "ruin" in a more positive way.
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2712|original comic}}.
...range, showing the direction towards their center of gravity and the size of the body. A circle also appears around the spaceship whenever it collides w
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| titletext = I love their cover of 1,200 Balloons, Dalmatians, and Miles.
...musical group formed by collaboration of existing solo artists and members of other musical groups.
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| titletext = It's hard to believe, but lots of kids these days ONLY know how to buy prepackaged molecules.
...sted with quantities and prices. The ambiguity of chemical formulae is one of the jokes in the comic.
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Here the long tables needed for the explanation of the interactive comic [[2765: Escape Speed]] could be moved.
=Table of planets=
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...s segment on [[xkcd|xkcd.com]]]]{{TOC}}These are the links at the top left of the page to navigate around on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]:
...[[links]] and make a note on [[links]] with the earliest web archive link of it.-->
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:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Footer comics]].''
The footer comics are likely selected for representing the topics covered on [[xkcd]]. They a
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2765|original comic}}.
This is the 13th [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]], but 18 days late, see the [[2
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| titletext = "Ow! One of the petri dishes I left on the tower railing fell and hit me on the head. H
...point, but would have little value as a scientific experiment; almost none of the things being tested are directly related to each other.
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<noinclude>:''For other instances of this title, see [[What If (disambiguation)]].</noinclude>
...each frame. This has become known as the [[Countdown in header text]], see all details on that page. Later he released a different countdown with comic [[
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...e of throw, throwing speed, spinning speed, and weight of the ball — all four graphs encompass a range far larger than would be useful for reference
...ly, which could annoy, anger, or even endanger other bowlers and employees of the bowling alley.
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...hortened the light-year in 1582, it led to navigational chaos and the loss of several Papal starships.
...arth-sun distance. The comic was released about a week before the leap day of 2024, a leap year.
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...}}, where patrons form teams and compete to answer questions about a range of topics. The typical goal for trivia games is that they be challenging, yet
Cueball uses a variety of strategies to write bad questions, including questions that are trivial (wh
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