<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Black Hat|Comics featuring
...hat style hat, that quickly evolved to have the current shape and style of a {{w|pork pie hat}}, already used in [[45: Schrodinger]].
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Here we have [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] discussing {{w|geology}} and the words they use are ripe wi
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...ly using {{w|Skype}}, {{w|FaceTime}}, or another video calling service, as Cueball later asks him to watch closely, holding his phone up to show the other guy
...ttp://zapatopi.net/blackhelicopters/ The Truth about Black Helicopters] is a (satirical) example of one such website, supposedly explaining the truth be
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...or message — it trips over one of the simplest commands, indicating that Cueball's system is messed up. ''Really'' messed up.
...in a folder called "android_vm" suggests Cueball was attempting to boot up a virtual Android device, but somehow wound up directing the Linux server to
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...onary.com/define.php?term=vaguetweeting "vaguetweeting"], which is posting a short message of sadness or frustration without context. This is frustratin
...as altruistic as a for-profit company can be). In the comic, ContextBot is a fictitious Google invention which puts context for these statuses, presumab
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...y}}ing him. This comic inspired several xkcd readers to give Cory Doctorow a red cape and goggles when he won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award. Cory Doctorow'
:Cueball: What? Who are you?
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...problem, Cueball "Just Gives Up" and puts all his items and furniture into a box labeled "Misc" for miscellaneous, with the exception of his laptop, ca
* A TV
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...ons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the sur
...]] is referring is [https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/73388356461019136 a tweet] by {{w|Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, an American astrophysicist and science
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...nly expressed sentiment of disliking Mondays. In the first panel, there is a reference to the {{w|Loverboy}} song "{{w|Working for the Weekend}}"; both
[[Cueball]] then presents a philosophical observation: that the calendar is a human-made construct and that days of the week hold no meaning in nature. H
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...stent in the 1970s, and his telephone has a {{w|rotary dial}}, rather than a {{w|touch tone}}, so he can't "press" 1.
...{{w|sideburns}}. The caller is somehow using time travel to directly dial a number in the present.
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This comic is mainly a joke on the traditional {{w|pick-up line}} that goes: "Baby, if I could rea
...inuing with that tired pickup line, addressed at [[Blondie]] at the bar, [[Cueball]] jumps at his hypothetical chance to rearrange the alphabet and fix the {{
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...wiftKey}} on his smartphone and brags about this to [[Megan]]. SwiftKey is a product that is installable on {{w|iOS}}/{{w|Android (operating system)|And
...ous word(s) and what it believes is the most likely words you would use in a sentence containing the previous word(s).
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<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Megan|Comics featuring Meg
:''For Megan's boyfriend, see [[Cueball]].''</noinclude>
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...side a box that is floating in a beam of heavenly light. Inside the box is a pair of shoes with five toes - and with these magic shoes, he can outrun {{
...d to make you feel like you are running barefoot). Specifically, the shoes Cueball takes out of the box look like {{w|Vibram FiveFingers}}.
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...bidden for you to interfere with human history until you've at least taken a class on it.
...n for "be right back". He soon returns, commenting that he found Hitler in a very noisy bunker in the year 1945.
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...no questions asked, for any candidate who describes themselves as 'more of a deficit sugar glider.'
...ive foreign policy, compared with "doves" who prefer negotiated diplomacy; a deficit hawk thus tends to promote harsher economic actions to 'defeat' def
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...aining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than
...s strategy are all feasible separately, and because he describes them with a barrage of trendy buzzwords, his audience is impressed and fails to notice
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...being a successful rapper to an ambitious politician. This may be seen as a sort of {{w|gentrification}} of black culture, one of the main themes of th
...r measure, or in this case, rap music. Obviously, the song is updated with a reference to {{w|Adele (singer)|Adele}}, who was, of course, not performing
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...sometimes gave away "perks" to the users with the highest Klout scores, as a means of advertising the products of their sponsors. Generally, the informa
...hat a small, active group of followers is considered more influential than a large, passive group of followers.
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...work hard and bring money home to your family to put food on the table. If a man is out of work he may be stressed out about how to "bring home the baco
...o works as a pharmacist, does bring home the bacon, and he tells this to [[Cueball]].
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