A larger version of this comic is available [http://xkcd.com/1079/large/ here].
...an object of similar shape. [[:Category:Maps|Maps]] are a common theme in xkcd. Several years later Randall made a new map of the US mainland [[1653: Unit
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...t}}'', which has been [[:Category:Minecraft|referenced multiple times]] in xkcd comics. [https://minecraft.wiki/w/Diamond Diamonds] are a very valuable res
...impression that the two people in the cropped image are there without that person. This demonstrates how ''context'' is important to understanding a situatio
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...ck" your life and improve it. Life hacking appears to be a common theme in xkcd, such as in [[2024: Light Hacks]].
:[One big plain room with a person sitting on the floor with a laptop on one side, a modem and wireless router
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...the information provided by Klout was not held in high esteem. The type of person who took most interest in their score was typically not well-liked.
...an if the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska tweeted that they liked that blog. Or xkcd publishing a comic about Klout would lead to an all time high in [https://t
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...hosts to designate a finite amount of higher-tier rewards, so if a wealthy person knew in advance that they would want to guarantee a specific reward from a
...ck hat, $5,000 vs $500 goal), so Baron von Husk may have got the idea from xkcd.
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Clicking on the image on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] links to a now-unavailable [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhaEjgnmy3
There are at least two performances of this xkcd song online where the transcription is shown to make it easier to understan
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...coauthors who did not do much more than work in the same department as the person who actually wrote the paper (a sad but true fact). Presumably Cueball's fr
Zombies are a [[:Category:Zombies|recurring theme]] in xkcd, particularly zombie scientists, which has also occurred both before with {
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...ng, but the other way around.|Randall Munroe|[https://xkcd.com/about About xkcd]}}
...ific answers to absurd hypothetical questions", while on his [https://blog.xkcd.com personal blog], called ''[[Blag]]'', he posts announcements related to
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'''Cueball''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is distinguished from other characters by having no distinguishing fe
...e Cueballs|multiple Cueballs]], any of whom can be called Cueball. Early [[xkcd]] comics featured Cueball-style characters who occasionally included facial
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...'' or ''{{w|Doom}}'') in which you are looking at the world from the first person perspective of the character you are controlling. [[Randall]] notes in the
Like most other games in the ''{{w|Sniper Elite}}'' series, the 2017 Third Person Shooter ''{{w|Sniper Elite 4}}'' allows the player to track and see brief o
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...her text-processing utilities, including {{w|Perl}} (a favorite subject of xkcd), and has entered into the geek lexicon as something that could appear in g
...s a boast commonly made in Western movies, where it is used to mean that a person is the fastest at drawing his gun in a duel (or, alternatively, can fire hi
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...in the modern world, [[:Category:Velociraptors|appear several times]] in [[xkcd]]. This is the second such instance; the first is [[87: Velociraptors]].
...ct, but there's an [https://web.archive.org/web/20150326152959/http://fora.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=120&start=40 archived version]:
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'''White Hat''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is distinguished by his eponymous white hat which appears to be in th
...ite hat guy, [[Beret Guy]]. See more on how little these three interact in xkcd in the explanation for [[:Category:Characters with hats|Characters with hat
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...veJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account.
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Earhart seems to think the person she is talking with is stupid for not comprehending such a simple answer, b
:Off-screen person: What's that airplane?
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...W TABLES;</code> command to see how the database is structured. In 2019, a person chose a vanity license plate that said "NULL" and subsequently [https://www
...ck] that happened in the 2010 Swedish general elections, and [https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ several people tried it on Randall's c
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...Eve Party]], one particular unnamed Cueball is revealed to be a different person from Rob, due him being able to misidentify another figure as Rob.
...me for this character was discussed at length. See the following [[explain xkcd:Community portal|Community portal]] topics:
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...Being taught something in an academic setting does not necessarily mean a person will readily understand/realize the concept, hence the lack of absolute cau
...|correlation does not imply causation}}, ''correlation'' is here seen as a person, giving you subtle hints where to look for the cause. This is a metaphor fo
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