...n [[mw:Help:Editing pages|how to edit wiki pages]]. There's also a handy {{w|Help:Cheatsheet|wikicode cheatsheet}}.
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...style hat, that quickly evolved to have the current shape and style of a {{w|pork pie hat}}, already used in [[45: Schrodinger]].
It's not verified that Black Hat is a reference to {{w|Black hat hacking}}, but the character's personality is in line with the id
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...it is the mitten and the eagle). This comic could also be a reference to {{w|Giuseppe Arcimboldo}}'s portraits, which were composed of objects such as f
...uitar amplifier}} {{w|speaker cabinet}}, and Alabama and Mississippi are {{w|moai}} facing in opposite directions.
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...] discussing {{w|geology}} and the words they use are ripe with puns and {{w|double entendre}}s which also have sexual meanings. In the end, they just d
...aps a {{w|portmanteau}} of {{w|orgy}} and {{w|erogenous}}), "huge," and "{{w|Thrust fault|thrust}}."
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...ot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.|{{w|Mark Twain}} ([https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Misattributed proba
...front of his computer talking back. They are probably using {{w|Skype}}, {{w|FaceTime}}, or another video calling service, as Cueball later asks him to
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...of vision related facts, arranged in a way that they all fit inside your {{w|field of vision}} (the conic area in which you can see at any given time).
...enter of the image). This is because the {{w|retina}} is denser near the {{w|fovea}}, in the center.
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...readability. The practice began first with text messages, also known as {{w|Short Message Service|SMS}}, or Short Message Service, which limited messag
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[[Cueball]] has messed up his {{w|Linux server}} (which can have the prompt ~# or ~$), {{tvtropes|WalkingTech
...ok in the /usr/share directory for items that can be run unless the user {{w|PATH (variable)|tells it to do so by changing the $PATH variable}}. The pre
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This comic is based on a common {{w|superstition}} that when someone's {{w|eyelash}} falls out, that person can make a wish on it. This comic appears
...e likes (and there are some very large finite numbers out there, such as {{w|Graham's number}}).
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...al poster wants to use the Internet while on the toilet, but can't get a {{w|Wi-Fi}} signal there.
...e distributions. Fake torrents exist, which usually contain an encrypted {{w|RAR (file format)|.rar}} file which requires a password to open. To get the
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...mash-up between the ''{{w|Lord of the Rings}}'' trilogy and the novel ''{{w|Charlotte's Web}}''.
...ed to Cirith Ungol by {{w|Gollum}} and to the lair of the ancient spider {{w|Shelob}}.
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...figure in an earlier stage of the Hundred Years War. As you can see, the {{w|Pawn_(chess)|pawns}} (foot soldiers) on the right side of the chess board h
The word "{{w|gambit}}" means "an opening in chess, in which a minor piece or a pawn is s
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...guests." While [[Cory Doctorow]] is not in this comic, the character is {{w|cosplay}}ing him. This comic inspired several xkcd readers to give Cory Doc
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...vania, where the film is set. The folklore ritual consists in removing a {{w|groundhog}} from its burrow. If the sun is shining and the groundhog can se
...e finds himself increasingly attached to his coworker Rita (portrayed by {{w|Andie MacDowell}}). The pair gets closer, and, in the end, they sleep toget
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...g is [https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/73388356461019136 a tweet] by {{w|Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, an American astrophysicist and science communicator.
There are a number of {{w|moon landing conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories}} claiming that the mo
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...ys. In the first panel, there is a reference to the {{w|Loverboy}} song "{{w|Working for the Weekend}}"; both the song and the panel highlight how many
...the logic of this argument falls apart. Simply renaming the days of the {{w|Gregorian calendar}} would not change their social or economic function. Th
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[[Black Hat]] has become bored with attacking {{w|Emo}} kids, a cultural and, particularly, musical phenomenon characterized
Instead, Black Hat has chosen to attack {{w|computational linguistics}}, an interdisciplinary field that combines theor
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...t in the 1970s, and his telephone has a {{w|rotary dial}}, rather than a {{w|touch tone}}, so he can't "press" 1.
...l as a hair-style that may be an era-consistent bleached short-perm with {{w|sideburns}}. The caller is somehow using time travel to directly dial a num
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An {{w|exoplanet}} is a planet outside of our solar system, orbiting a different s
...une}}-sized, and the tiny dots are small {{w|terrestrial planets}} (like {{w|Earth}}).
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...t as if a "couple" meant exactly three. The title text also mentions the {{w|Sentence spacing|sentence spacing}} issue as an example of another topic kn
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