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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1110<br />
| date = September 19, 2012<br />
| title = Click and Drag<br />
| image = click_and_drag.png<br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = Click and drag.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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*[http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/13n1e.png 13 North, 1 East]: 2 whales is possibly a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the planet [http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Magrathea Magrathea], where (improbably) 2 incoming missiles are turned into a whale and a bowl of petunias.<br />
*[http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/11n11w.png 11 North, 11 West]: apparently empty cell<br />
*[http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/11n11e.png 11 North, 11 East]: apparently empty cell<br />
*[http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/3n2e.png 3 North, 2 East]: A falling {{w|Icarus}} screams "I hope the story of how ''Building Wax Wings Enabled Me To Fly'' teaches everyone a lesson about hubris." Referring to the Greek myth of Icarus and his father's escape from Crete by building wings of feathers and wax.<br />
*[http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1n13w.png 1 North, 13 West]: the statue of liberty head and hand is reference to {{w|Planet of the Apes(film)|Planet of Apes}}.<br />
*[http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1n7e.png 1 North, 7 East]: there seem to be a {{w|Mario}} level (level 1, Super Mario Bros 1, NES). This is confirmed by text on [http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/3s7e.png 3 south 7 east].<br />
*[http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/9n2e.png 9 North, 2 East]: {{w|Apollo 13}} messaging 'Houston, we have a problem''<br />
*[http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1n2w.png 1 North, 2 West]: "I came here to chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum" is possibly a reference to a scene from the Movie "They Live" or to the Duke Nukem Series.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*The click-and-drag portion of this comic is divided up into 2592 sections of 2048x2048 pngs.<br />
*The populated area is 81 frames wide(33 West - 48 East) and 32 frames tall (13 North - 19 South)<br />
*According to [[Randall]] in #xkcd on the night this was released, a full size image of this comic, leaving out the blanks would be 60 gigapixels, a true single rectangular image would be close to a terapixel.<br />
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