Randall explained in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 a speech at Google] five days before this comic was released that he was nerd sniped, i
...ery State] (7 years after this comics release), the entire comic was shown at the top and the truck again further down the post—Randall has again been
10 KB (1,726 words) - 08:59, 15 December 2025
...Earth, they will meet at that same angle on the map. It also follows that at every point the vertical and horizontal scales are the same, so locally i.e
...wn as {{w|Virtual reality headset|VR headsets}}, were considered a gimmick at best. The original idea is as old as 3D graphics, but it never really took
25 KB (3,966 words) - 15:50, 29 October 2025
...iful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind}} in which {{w|John Forbes Nash, Jr.|Dr. John Forbes Nash, Jr.}} comes up with his famous concept of {{w|Nash equilibrium
...retical physics to the general public, a practice that was not very common at that time. One of his more famous books, ''{{w|Surely You're Joking, Mr. Fe
4 KB (617 words) - 11:36, 13 October 2025
It appears that the (at the time) {{w|United States presidential election, 2012|upcoming 2012 elect
...ween the states proportional to their population; although each state gets at least one (the House also has non-voting representatives from non-state ter
27 KB (4,112 words) - 17:03, 9 December 2025
...ightmare about being swarmed by hundreds of mouse-sized dromaeosaurids, my work will have been done.
Cueball is holding a lit cigarette, recalling the role of chain-smoking John "Ray" Arnold, the Chief Engineer of Jurassic Park, played by {{w|Samuel L.
3 KB (506 words) - 00:54, 29 March 2025
| titletext = My favorite thing to do at parties is to talk judgmentally about people who aren't there.
...rty, only to find himself tuning out the gossip of his friends in order to work on math problems in his head. He writes down the prime numbers on cards, an
5 KB (783 words) - 04:07, 28 October 2025
...o, if you read his speech at Rice, all his arguments for going to the moon work equally well as arguments for blowing up the moon, sending cloned dinosaurs
On May 25, 1961, U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]] gave a [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/xzw1gaeeTES6khE
4 KB (705 words) - 18:20, 21 January 2024
...restrictions is one of the most alarming tendencies of the present age.' --John Harvey Kellogg, Ladies' guide in health and disease (1883)
..., a couple of decades ago, and this has been happening for over a century (at least). This comic makes a point that the older times people refer to, were
15 KB (2,411 words) - 19:30, 18 December 2025
...ogle search results. Strip versions of popular games are a common activity at parties, especially when alcohol is involved. The obligation to remove piec
...e other columns named sports or board games where a strip variant would be at least conceivable, the last one includes the {{w|zero-player game|zero-play
9 KB (1,500 words) - 21:56, 28 June 2025
...performances of 4'33" in studios where another band happened to be playing at the time.
[[File:John Cage (1988).jpg|thumb|right|John Cage in 1988 (from Wikimedia Commons)]]
2 KB (279 words) - 10:25, 26 October 2024
...bstruse plot-line makes it nearly impossible to fill the gaps. Any attempt at inferring the missing images would therefore be largely guesswork. The comi
: Dissatisfied with her work, Megan is thinking about alternative ways to improve her light arrangement.
10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:34, 12 October 2025
...oenix, in which Bellatrix Lestrange kills Sirius Black. Radio waves travel at the {{w|speed of light}}. The title text jokes that these memes are so anno
The table below lists all the memes described, and the star at which the comics states those memes should be heard by the time when the co
24 KB (3,815 words) - 16:54, 25 November 2025
...this for many years (e.g. ''{{w|National Enquirer}}''). The numbers shown at the headline are also often wrong and not covered by the article.
...effect}}; his work on relativity was still not accepted by many physicists at that time.
11 KB (1,856 words) - 16:40, 26 February 2025
...ssible regular expression which would match all elements of one set, while at the same time not matching any element from the other set. The day after th
...regex golf generator, which leads to another "meta-" layer of abstraction. At the end, Megan notes this sequence of meta-meta-... might go to infinity an
14 KB (2,442 words) - 22:44, 4 December 2025
:[Title panel at the top left]
:[This section is right below the title panel at the top left - it covers the price of a single coffees up to the hourly sal
120 KB (17,998 words) - 19:05, 17 June 2025
...new trend among teens is sweeping the nation, but is it dangerous? Details at 11:00.").
...the 1995 {{w|Oklahoma City Bombing}} on the second anniversary of the fire at the Branch Davidians compound.
17 KB (2,629 words) - 12:33, 24 November 2025
...tendency goes back to ancient mythology. The opposite approach, setting a work in a speculative future, has been less common prior to modern times. The ol
...l world of this era to the one the author projected. This doesn't make the work less valuable, necessarily, but it does make the limits of such speculation
31 KB (4,634 words) - 15:23, 14 August 2025
...he book down and walks off, and soon finds that he himself has been living at the bottom of a flower much like the frogs in the bromeliad. This is an all
...e Game]], and to {{w|John Conway}}, two days after he died, in [[2293: RIP John Conway]].
5 KB (780 words) - 22:38, 11 November 2024
| titletext = At the boundary between each zone, stories blend together. Somewhere in the Ne
...(A 51st section is located in the Atlantic Ocean.) Inside each section is at least one reference that is supposed to describe the entire area encompasse
23 KB (3,887 words) - 16:42, 2 March 2025
...[1506: xkcloud#Transcript|front page]] by clicking on the image of Cueball at his desk.
:[At the top of the page there are the following text:]
45 KB (7,766 words) - 19:12, 17 June 2025
