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...comic, each state of the United States of America has been filled-in with an object of similar shape. Several years later Randall made a new map of the
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...rational, which inevitably result in a system just as complicated. This is an example of the paradox in complexity theory that if you attempt to simplify
...tands for ''Earth Standard Time'' (hence the title), but it is in itself a joke on the American {{w|Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard Time}} and the Austr
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...org/web/20150401183305/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhaEjgnmy3c Here is an Archive.org link to the video.]
...his song the term {{w|Major (academic)|Major}} refers to the US version of an academic major. The point of the song is that it makes no sense to pick any
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...ped in a driver's license factory." The most literal interpretation of the joke would be that some being who helped to create the universe in a "universe f
...umber|this property}}, but the absence of this property would in itself be an extraordinary coincidence. However, the probability of finding any given st
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An {{w|Umwelt}}, as the title text explains, is the idea that a person's entir
...nce to The Ring (https://imgur.com/wlGmm), as though to suggest that using an alternative browser is dismal and horrific.
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For the joke in this comic, an extension accidentally replaces the word "{{w|Computer keyboard|keyboard}}"
...sier to use a proper full-sized keyboard, whether you hunt-and-peck or are an accomplished touch-typist, although this may depend a lot on practice.
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...to these old black-and-white tapes of Bob Ross slumped against the wall of an empty room, painting the least happy trees you've ever seen. Either PBS nee
...he Chief would congratulate or encourage the players. {{w|Rockapella}} was an {{w|a cappella}} band featured on the show that gave clues, punctuated the
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...ntually halts, and prints out the error. The comic claims that if you read an unmatched parenthesis, you will look for it for the rest of the day too.
It also refers to an awkward feeling when you see something out of place in a piece of literary
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[[Richard Stallman]], or ''rms'', after his handle, is an old-school hacker known for establishing the {{w|Free Software Foundation}}
...m from the world though that is historically inaccurate, it is strong. The joke of the comic, as it also turns out, is that the two [[Cueball]]s dressed up
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[[Ron Paul]] is an American physician, author, and politician who is a {{w|US House of Represe
{{w|Tron (film)|Tron}} is a movie made by {{w|Disney}}. There is also a joke about {{w|Pokémon}} in the phrase "... evolves into ...". Pokémon is a ga
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| titletext = An eternity later, the universe having turned out to have positive curvature a
...rang, which somehow manages to hurt the {{w|ozone layer}} (as indicated by an off-screen voice). This is of course not possible with a boomerang, as the
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...the inner anatomy of the human body, the effects of friction, what goes on inside a beehive, and many others.
...rnative seems more likely, since the third panel shows them still going on an adventure, however briefly it takes to get to the library/computer lab.
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...rsial, as well as being comforting. Liking these specific things suggests an ordinary, easygoing lifestyle paralleled by the projection.
...ect and has very little skewing of the poles. {{w|Buckminster Fuller}} was an eccentric futurist who believed, for example, that world maps should allow
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...tion author who serves as co-editor of the weblog {{w|Boing Boing}}. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the {{w
...{{w|GNU}} as a coder. GNU is supposed to be the pinnacle of free software; an operating system with no restriction, allowing the user to modify and custo
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...comic title, and both of these invite the reader to ''Click and drag'' the inside of the last panel, with their mouse, and by dragging, explore what is hidde
...umor, desolation or happiness here and there... which can easily captivate an xkcd reader for a long time (and as such qualifies as [[356: Nerd Sniping|n
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...ie misunderstood his wish, and gave him a 12-inch pianist. The crux of the joke is that the word ''pianist'' sounds similar to the word ''penis''. The man
:[Cueball is holding a box with an open lid. A miniature piano is inside. Megan is looking at it]
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...ovie {{w|Die Hard}}, where several supposed terrorists have taken hostages inside the fictional building Nakatomi Plaza. They take over the building, and cut
...evidently concerns the man on the phone, who knows that a good sysadmin is an unstoppable force once started.
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...r cells and replicate very quickly. However, to make these genetic changes inside the cells, they used {{w|HIV}} as the vehicle to introduce these new genes
...inject into the patient's body. This is similar to the song {{w|There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly}} in which a little old lady who swallowed a f
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...n, and the closest-in {{w|gas giant}}. The core of the planet is hidden by an enormous gaseous atmosphere, and this comic lists a number of theories abou
...own is much too large. "Emergency Backup Earth" was previously proposed as an [[1253: Exoplanet Names|exoplanet name]], and was used later for a [[1555:
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