...annoying and impacts productivity. However, if it is too low spinning one's chair becomes more fun than working.
...es that if your chair spins too easily, you can actually hurt other people's productivity by spinning competitively.
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...hat like these turbines) and also to {{w|John Christopher|John Christopher's}} ''{{w|The Tripods|Tripods}}'' trilogy, a young adult series of books that
...tury literary figure {{w|Don Quixote}} arrives. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]]'s depiction seems to be inspired by {{w|Don Quixote (Picasso)|the drawing}} b
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| titletext = The best thing about Strunk/White fanfiction is that it's virtually guaranteed to be well written.
...er {{w|E.B. White}} (perhaps better known as the author of ''{{w|Charlotte's Web}}'' and ''{{w|Stuart Little}}''), is commonly referred to as "''Strunk
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...oteric filesystem, a corrupted source archive, or just a system clock that's set incorrectly; however, since these file modification dates are an import
:Computer: Well, that's what a segfault feels like.
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...and 80's, followed by an exponential rise in cell phone usage in the 2000's. Black Hat reverses the correlation/causation fallacy, and comically comes
...creen either from the weight of its lower body or the pressure of the user's fingers on the LCD screen is enough to make him squirm in discomfort. The r
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...te Hat]] is analyzing a movie about movies when Cueball compares White Hat's description of the movie to masturbatory {{w|Omphaloskepsis|navel-gazing}},
:White Hat: ...No, but see, it's a movie ''about'' movies.
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| titletext = This was my friend David's idea
:Jeffy's ongoing struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder
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| titletext = What's the complexity class of the best linear programming cutting-plane technique
...is is also likely a reference to [[78: Garfield]], which parodies Garfield's simplicity.
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...prepared something beforehand. Before he even finishes, Megan answers "It's you", meaning that no one else is so geeky that they would answer like that
:Megan: It's— ...Wait. How do I know it's really you?
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...There have been two major footnotes displayed over the course of the site's history, with a gap of 22 days without any footnotes after the removal of t
...r to the more mathematical usage of plus or minus, which would indicate it's best viewed on a Pentium 2, or a Pentium 4, but nothing else.
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...in seven days. (For scale, the most-watched video at the time of the comic's publication had 78 million views.)
...os in the FLV format. This, presumably, would reduce the quality of Samara's apparition. The title text also implies that nobody deserves that, although
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| titletext = No white guy who's been mentioned on Twitter has gone on to win.
During election season in U.S. presidential elections — and especially in election night coverage — i
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...{w|glass}}. When this occurs in nature, hollow tubes called {{w|fulgurite}}s are formed. [[Cueball]] uses this knowledge and a spark of handiness and in
...e "for some value of x," used frequently in physics or mathematics when it's not necessary (nor easy, maybe not even possible) to calculate a suitable v
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...since the early days of the site, it has consistently referenced the comic's themes. Here is a quick summary of the major changes that were made to the
...18, 2005]'' ''{{Quote|I draw things. There's a new one every M/W/F. There's an RSS feed (taken from the [http://www.livejournal.com/users/xkcd_drawings
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...tletext = He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he's copied on /var/spool/mail/root, so be good for goodness' sake.
...rs of the password are not shown. Even though the password is correct, Rob's account is not in the list of accounts that can use <code>sudo</code> (the
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...plies that the content doesn't matter to her, only the quality in which it's delivered to her ear. Megan promptly hangs up; she could've been highly off
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...e situation is reversed: [[Beret Guy]] is bringing ice to a party, when he's lured by [[Danish]] up to "her place" and drugged. The next morning he awak
...has been left on the counter. This could also be another pun on Beret Guy's response of yelling ''AAAAAAA'', which could be another kind of AAA club th
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...nd ''tangent'' with respect to the lengths of a right triangle's edges: '''s'''ine = '''o'''pposite over '''h'''ypotenuse, '''c'''osine = '''a'''djacent
...pointing in towards the circle from each corner of the paper. Behind Hairy's head is another paper with a graph that looks like a positive third degree
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| titletext = I'm not saying it's all bad, but that movie has not aged as well as my teenage self in 2000 was
...er and was implied to be a big fan initially, but now doesn't feel that it's aged well. As an adult, he doesn't claim the film is all bad, but has lost
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