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However, in typical [[xkcd]] fashion, rather than continuing with that tired pickup line, addressed at
...ar {{w|writing}} system (script) to write a particular language, including rules of spelling. English orthography is rather infamous for being rather compli
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:xkcd presents
:<u>Rules</u>
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{{comicsrow|442|2008-06-27|xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel}}
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...er decreases. The human brain is very good at seeing patterns and deducing rules, and the seemingly natural conclusion is that that the one is leading to th
...https://store.xkcd.com/products/correlation available as a T-shirt] in the xkcd store before it was [[Store|shut down]].
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From ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'':
...channers wrote in to complain I was violating [https://www.4chan.org/rules rules] 1 and 2. Some 4channers are a little slow on the uptake.}}
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...hirt for the doctor, a necklace of beads must be exchanged. In the [http://xkcd.com/996/info.0.json official transcript] the doctor is described as an {{w|
...r comics:" and below that a link to a [[Blag]] post regarding [http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/06/30/family-illness/ family-illness] that talked about the real w
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...ich urges politicians to pass and enforce laws in a way that preserves the rules and rights set down by the {{w|Constitution of the United States|U.S. const
* Randall's ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' blog and [[explain xkcd|this wiki]] use the {{Template|Citation needed}} template as a joke, after
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...y Dvorak himself). And the 'slow typists down' thing is a myth. Also EMACS RULES VI DROOLS WOOOOOOO!
...]], and since then it has become a [[:Category:Dvorak|recurrent theme]] on xkcd.
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...words people are likely to choose. (For related info, see https://what-if.xkcd.com/34/).
xkcd's password generation scheme requires the user to have a list of 2048 commo
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| titletext = I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional bias
...lly set in the late 15th century, has a significant amount of history. The rules and traditions are well established. The knight is a piece that can only mo
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...th a crossbow. ([[:Category:Crossbows|Crossbows]] are a recurring theme in xkcd.)
...ack Hat continues to provide an example of his tendency to play by his own rules. A clay pigeon is a clay disc that is thrown into the air and serves as a t
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...e him the first person to receive tribute in conjunction with his death on xkcd, but [[:Category:Tribute|not the last]].
...em is that ''Dungeons and Dragons'' isn't so much a game as it is a set of rules for describing stories. It requires the intervention of a {{w|Dungeon Maste
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...reates a computer that can process any possible function, out of rocks and rules for the interaction between rocks. He then simulates a particle followed by
...to build a {{w|cellular automaton}}, a computational model based on simple rules to advance from one state to the next. Certain cellular automata are {{w|Tu
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| Lord Jesus rules the Earth from Throne in Jerusalem.
...ially global warming, is a [[:Category:Climate change|recurring theme]] in xkcd.
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Every piece being attacked at once is impossible under standard rules. If all of the pieces are being attacked, that includes both kings. It is i
...tex" and trap them from getting out. This is not the case, but, within the xkcd universe, he has performed an equally absurd gambit (also named after himse
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...Conjecture states that this holds for any set of obsessively-hand-applied rules.
.../store.xkcd.com/products/collatz-conjecture available as a T-shirt] in the xkcd store before it was [[Store|shut down]].
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| title = What xkcd Means
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...n] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com].
...ppy Farm" was more popular at the time. This strikes many English-speaking xkcd readers as odd, because Farmville is much more famous, leading one to wonde
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