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  • ...y virtually every science-for-kids-or-fun TV show that go in for that kind of thing...) [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 03:46, 19 Jun ...Cueball was expecting his friend's dad to appear out of nowhere instead of the Diet Coke + Mentos eruption. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.45|108.162
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  • ...Stygimoloch spinifer' (meaning 'horned dragon from the river of death') in the semifinals. ...rection that {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}} has taken with nicknaming the versions of their {{w|OS X}} operating system. They started at v10.0 "Cheetah", and hav
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  • | titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'. ...demic)|Major}} refers to the US version of an academic major. The point of the song is that it makes no sense to pick any major since they are all terribl
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  • ...on|its discussion section]]. Other issues probably belong at the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]].}} ...all>Re-signed here - b/c I broke the comment in two when I added the "List of comics" header. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User tal
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  • <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe|Comics featuring Ra ...ies I do the same thing, but the other way around.|Randall Munroe|[https://xkcd.com/about Source]}}
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  • ...your proposal has already been submitted. </i>{{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Proposals|Text=<small>(+post)</small>}} At the moment, browsing through the explanations using the previous and next buttons is interrupted whenever there's an explanation mi
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  • {{notice2|Please don't add new topics here. Go [[explain xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests|here]] instead.}} ...anything on the <s>blog</s> wiki as spam or notify admins of the existence of it? (Most stuff can be simply removed.) What about user pages? --[[User:Jef
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  • Hi, just to let you know that I move the thread you started to [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]. Cheers, --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User ''For discussion of the Ruby Import assistant. Please create subsections for each item.''
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  • ...to protected pages, more user rights etc.</i> {{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Admin requests|Text=<small>(+post)</small>}} '''List of Admins:'''<br/>
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  • ...anything that doesn't fit anywhere else. </i>{{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Miscellaneous|Text=<small>(+post)</small>}} == The Community Portal's design ==
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  • == XKCD Store link == ...Mr Munroe money and force him back to his day job instead of drawing more XKCD :-) --[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 20:23, 2 August
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  • ...system actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your *To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.
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  • ==Thanks for helping roll back the vandalism== ...sed vandalism. I'm hoping this is just a spike owing to the popularity of the comic, but I'm with you; if it doesn't die down, something more drastic is
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A40%20pm-,Strip%20series,-One% ...ch to Kurt Halsey to chaotic and sappy.<br>The whole series is [http://www.xkcd.com/comic/comic.html here].
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  • | titletext = We have met the enemy and he is us. ...ve it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well.
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  • ...sources and downloads] page where a list of sources and the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png full image] can be downloaded ...almost forgotten how enjoyable it can be.|[[Randall Munroe]]|[https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/11/24/money-chart/ Source]}}
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  • ...To Statement Considered Harmful"] in particular contributed to the decline of ''goto.'' ...]. Velociraptor attacks are a running joke (and fear) often expressed in [[xkcd]].
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  • ...picted in the film have some discrepancies with the size and appearance of the velociraptors. For example, scientists have since discovered that velocirap ...m in the modern world, are a subject of (or appear in) several strips of [[xkcd]].
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  • ...To encourage people to be on their toes, I'm not going to say what book or author. ...isinformation but make said misinformation seem reliable through a process of "circular reporting".
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  • ...ext = This digital music thing will probably reach its endgame sometime in the next decade or so. These are very exciting times. ...he is part of this comic series, and thus also this comic, as he narrates the epilogue.
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  • ...that reversing the order of the two vectors also reverses the direction of the cross product. ...and rule that might be useful to some physics students doing exercises out of their textbooks. However, it would give incorrect results with books in lan
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  • ...FoxTrot, an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists, of which there are an oddly large number. ...nistrator/super user. This forces Randall to agree. This is a reference to the very popular comic [[149: Sandwich]], which has now become a geek culture c
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  • ...(in this case through "thinking logically"), however the player receiving the advise (a clearly more knowledgeable and experienced player) immediately re ...every position, although they do come up with great moves through the use of complex algorithms.
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  • ...f a game of truth or dare. This is Bloody Mary's first appearance in xkcd, the second being [[2364: Parity Conservation]]. ...or towards each other. It's not clear if they simply collide, or pass into the opposing mirror. Megan may be attempting an experiment either in particle p
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  • ...- specifically that each cell is in a "box". In this case, the cadence of the text doesn't seem to be poetic, but in some comics it could be. --[[User:Bp ...o Cordelia, where one would expect "the enemy" or similar. And this before the shots are fired. Someone needs to read a bit more carefully. Anonymous 00:1
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  • | titletext = The best thing about Strunk/White fanfiction is that it's virtually guaranteed ...o the style guide, an instance of {{w|meta humor}}, a recurring theme in ''xkcd''.
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  • ...at were made to the tagline, along with a link to the earliest web archive of it available: ...raw 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/info drawings journal]) [ht
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  • | titletext = The fact that things like the npm left-pad incident are so rare is oddly reassuring. ...hive accepts submissions of any type of information, including new backups of web pages and newly-made public domain content.
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  • ...at someone armed with this particular statistical knowledge would not take the normal precautions and therefore leave themselves far more vulnerable. ...owing a certain event can't or didn't happen and not having any data about the event.
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  • ...clichés like "candle-lit dinners" and may, in fact, simply indicate that the person enjoys romantic gestures and activities in general. It is likely tha In this comic, [[Randall]] lists "long walks on the beach" as an interest on a dating profile. However, while a romantic walk m
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  • I disagree with the original author of the article, I don't think Garfield is poorly written. However, to avoid any gr ...corporate culture has made Dilbert a hit, and we ourselves are discussing XKCD here. Watterson would be smiling right now. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title=
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  • ...ve appeared as "Star Trek: Into Darkness." They eventually decided against the colon, and I wonder if this comic is poking fun at that debate.[[Special:Co The Associated Press style manual says to capitalize all prepositions that are
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  • The wings are gonna have to be waay bigger if that plane is gonna fly. '''[[Use ...ch, a noted aviation author who published a series of flying books called "The Ferret Chronicles" in 2002-2003? --[[Special:Contributions/144.92.241.6|144
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  • ..., and finally retract, reforming the frame again, but pulling him apart in the process, in a rather macabre comic. ...the frame becoming a character, the main protagonist, and sole survivor of the strip.
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  • | titletext = Guest comic by Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. When I was stressed out, Zach gave me a *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|826|original comic}}.
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  • ...f the equation is rotating [a1, a2] by 90°. Simplifying the trigonometry, the 90° clockwise rotation matrix is [[0, 1], [-1, 0]], so multiplying this by ...uthor performed the rotation transformation on the notation rather than on the vector it represents.
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  • What is the root of love? What is the angle of love?
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  • Added an explanation for the title text, but it's probably too wordy and not very clear. Anyone have any Umm... "The pun lies in the fact that a pickup basketball player becomes skilled at basketball."
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  • ...s thought out well and proves helpful to others, we will reward the author of such a great idea with riches beyond their wildest dreams (such as through ...and they had access to free stuff. There are those on-line who think that the internet should offer-up everything for free but this attitude forgets that
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  • Well, imho the reference to the master in the mountain hideaway is clearly a reference to Kill Bill, but I am not skilled :Next time, don't be so shy! Just do the best you can and someone else can help correct it. [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[
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  • ...starts out with a 1 second delay, then doubles to two, then to four, etc. the time it takes to wait is 2^n. Six screw ups cost you a minute, twenty erro : That's not how brute force attacks work. They steal the hashes of the passwords and then brute force them locally. [[Special:Contributions/198.41
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  • ...d social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take. ...rge/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on xkcd.
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  • ...ow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted. The comic gives examples of four non-functional {{w|sorting algorithm}}s written in {{w|Pseudocode|pseu
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  • I loved the "runs in O(n log n)" part. [[Special:Contributions/76.106.251.87|76.106.251 ...rtability. It's a sad state where I've actually more or less come across 3 of these. [[Special:Contributions/203.126.136.142|203.126.136.142]] 00:56, 14
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  • ...frey Rowland of Overcompensating/Wigu. Jeffrey is famous as the picture on the Wikipedia article on 'Necrosis'. ...is clear from the [http://xkcd.com/825/info.0.json official transcript] on xkcd.
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  • ...tand to reason that Randall could have intended both the in-place joke and the external irony.[[User:Tryc|Tryc]] ([[User talk:Tryc|talk]]) 14:44, 19 June ...whatever the true figure is) of Americans who believe in God do so only to the extent that they will answer 'Yes' to a survey question asking if they beli
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  • ...ere a "citation needed" when stating that beaks are not a typical property of human children! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.220|162.158.34.220]] 10: : Did you click on the link in the citation needed? It's a joke [[User:Danish|Danish]] ([[User talk:Danish|tal
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  • ...Guys: while I was writing this, I accidentally swallowed a table-size slab of drywall. I know! Wacky. ...ay), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, and it comprises the following five {{w|parodies}}:
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  • [[Cueball]] enters, excited that he's managed to buy every one of author {{w|Terry Pratchett}}'s {{w|Discworld}} books for his {{w|Amazon Kindle|Kin ...xplainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=DRM&go=Go&title=Special%3ASearch many xkcd comics].)
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  • ...h to see that particular movie, but I am cautiously optimistic about Where The Wild Things Are. ...nally criticized) for his style of film adaptation. Cueball is unsure that the IP would be a good fit for a summer blockbuster, but is dismissed.
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  • ...text = Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense. ...bolitionist ideals. He has since been honored with the use of his image on the $100 bill.
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  • I figured it was a poem. Turns out it is, of a sort. : The original poem is "Boys go to Jupiter, to get more stupider, girls go to col
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  • ...of escalators in popular culture, including the phenomenon of "running up the down". That is all ;) [[Special:Contributions/71.154.215.156|71.154.215.156 :Haha! I suppose someone who spends all his time indoors on the internet would understand NSFW but not an escalator. Maybe that's who I was
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  • ...Comics' author Ryan North is closer in height to certain dinosaurs than to the average human. ...s, birds along with crocodiles are indeed the remaining representatives of the {{w|Archosaur|archosaur clade}}. This premise appeared also in comic [[867:
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  • ...es would therefore be largely guesswork. The comic features the well-known xkcd characters getting involved in a strange fight with cyborgs and raptors on ...s Final Message to His Creation, written in letters of fire on the side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains.
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  • Aaaand this is up, This is one of my favorite comics of xkcd. [[User:StuckInReality|StuckInReality]] ([[User talk:StuckInReality|talk]]) I think that there is a bit of "the Cueball doth protest too much" in here. He's fighting Megan's explanations
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  • | title = <span style="color:blue">House</span> of Pancakes ...the colouring of every instance of the word "house" in blue, as is done on the menu. It includes footnotes within footnotes like Randall did here.
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  • ...ter which he reminds the blogger to watch the next season of ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles series''. ...them for attempting to argue with her. In this way, Cueball is assured of the last word in this argument, which makes for a most satisfying vent.
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  • ...kids will read this someday. DEAR FUTURE KIDS: how did you get internet in the cellar? ...isn't a good idea. Her behavior could also indicate that Megan is treating the child as an object rather than a human being.
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  • ...ay), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, and it comprises the following five {{w|parodies}}: {{w|Married_to_the_Sea#NatalieDee|Natalie Dee}} is the author of the daily comics [http://nataliedee.com/ Natalie Dee]. This webcomic comprises
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  • ..., whether directly or through an independent organized vote, in the naming of planetary satellites, newly discovered planets, and their host stars." ...have been even worse if presented in its unfiltered form (as seen below in the table).
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  • ...finally destroyed with a nuclear weapon carrying the destructive energy of the Hiroshima bomb. ...article [http://blog.xkcd.com/2013/05/15/dictionary-of-numbers/ Dictionary of Numbers] where [[Randall]] says that he doesn't "like large numbers without
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  • | titletext = If the celestial sphere were mapped to the Earth's surface, astronomy would get a LOT easier; you'd just need a magnif ...ts' scales are compared to actual objects on earth. Each size given is for the object at its closest approach to earth.
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  • I think the article should explain the 'typewriter story' mentioned in the title text. [[User:Ollieollieoxenfree|Ollieollieoxenfree]] ([[User talk:Oll ...difference between one space and two. But I'm not confident enough to edit the page [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.97|173.245.52.97]] 19:12, 1 Decembe
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  • ...das and in the Redwall series Matthias is one of the wielders of the Sword of Martin a sword that was hung on a weathervane. ...ca.com/security/2013/11/how-an-epic-blunder-by-adobe-could-strengthen-hand-of-password-crackers/ [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.211|108.162.229.211]
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  • ...e systems now accept longer-than eight-character filenames, and extensions of greater than three characters; although most extensions remain three charac ...ase, a file's extension is generally a good indicator of what type of data the file contains.
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  • ...that system can interact with another system that hosts it. Conway's Game of Life is Turing-complete, but you'd never imagine a Life board to be an atta The title text reference of "hand-aligned data" may refer to ASCII art. [[Special:Contributions/108.162
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  • ...ther users), however as time has passed they have become friends and enter the chat only to talk to each other, with no relation to computer problems. ...whereas [[Ponytail]] is most likely using an old computer (as evidenced by the CRT monitor).
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  • The sad truth is that there's nothing out there but the universe. Luckily, it's a magnificent one. [[Special:Contributions/108.162 ...Hell, it doesn't require that gods exist for this to be patently obvious, the universe could simply be a simulation. That could be impossible to observe
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  • ...osts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--> Is there any way to install the Vengaboys feature on my own phone? It's pure genius
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  • ...near a [https://xkcd.com/852/ prime pole vaulting location] it could skew the results. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.117|108.162.246.117]] 06:40, 5 ...measured in newtons. Hence the comic is making a mistake. One that 99% of the people do. Mass would be correct since it is a more fundamental quantity an
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  • ...you, at least for the next image, refrain from doing that? I can then test the script and if it works, you can continue if you want to, but least I know t Updating the transcript and anything else from the page is still absolutely fine, I cannot do this. --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]]
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  • ...ips on fire off the shoulder of Orion, c-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I should probably patch OpenSSL. ...o a programming error in OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f — meaning the bug had existed for two years — attackers could read random server memory
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  • ...hoever Cueball is preaching to getting tired of his drivel and showing him the door [[User:BarnZarn|BarnZarn]] ([[User talk:BarnZarn|talk]]) 05:02, 12 Aug :Really? I think it's the reverse, personally. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.24|172.69.34.24]] 19
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  • ...be funny? It's like making the statement that humans aren't entirely made of glass- who would bother to write anything that could serve as a citation fo ...bile phones haven't always been electronic. Remember the old 'bricks' from the '80s and '90s? More machine than computer.
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  • Is the Earth baby the real reason Krypton was destroyed? [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.239|1 ...seems that, in this comic, the answer is yes; in the real Superman series the answer is no because there is no Earth baby.[[Special:Contributions/141.101
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  • ...tion, ever since he jumped the shark with the dead baby it just feels like the downward trend is getting steeper. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.13 ...re going to be of average intelligence within the sample, the same goes to the whole population. So this comic is perfectly valid. --[[Special:Contributio
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  • Why are there three ''n'''s in ''headcannnon'' in the title text? ...s n increases the effort to convince others that the existence/correctness of headca(n)+on decreases? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.26|108.162.216.
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  • ...mathematics to ball pits. Some appropriate times that Wikipedia references xkcd are as follows: ...orously acknowledges the notion by opening a web browser and navigating to the strip in question.[3]
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  • | titletext = It's turtles all the way down. *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1416|original comic}}.
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  • ...As author of the first explanation, I know of what I write. Perhaps minus the snarky code-commenting.<br /> <nowiki>#</nowiki> But I've a feeling there's a better way of writing it, and possibly a different context that I've missed.<br />
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  • | titletext = If you want to have more fun at the expense of language pedants, try developing an hypercorrection habit. ...in a more multi-faceted debate. [[Cueball]] seems to be looking at results of polling for this ''third'' most popular character.
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  • Uh ... maybe, just maybe, is Megan referring to the ACTUAL tyrannosaurus, the animal which lived several millions years ago? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([ Any reason why "white hat" is not wearing his hat in the final panel? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.194|173.245.54.194]] 12:20,
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  • | titletext = I'm sorry, but the author of this Facebook comment clearly believes you were. ...inferior product or idea. Taking things literally is a common theme in the xkcd comics.
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  • ...ications, it would be nice if someone could show real-world examples where the phrases are used [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.168|103.22.201.168]] 10 ::Maybe they knew the video was ridiculous and shut it down because of inappropriate media or something? [[User:Jacky720|Jacky720]] ([[User talk:J
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  • ...news is about an event at a hospital or a lab, move it all the way over to the right. ...ies. Nine events are shown in the chart, all of them cliches in the medium of film:
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  • ...ut Number 6 being a reference to The Prisoner. there's no other context in the comic to suggest that reference. {{unsigned ip|‎173.245.54.180}} ...be a Battlestar galactica reference as well, which is again a reference to The Prisoner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_%28Battlestar_Galactica%29
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  • Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb. (The mouseover to my "Talk" tab appeared as "Your talk page is shite.")
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  • | title = Stories of the Past and Future ...fact: The 'Dawn of Man' opening sequence in 2001 cuts away seconds before the Flintstones theme becomes recognizable.
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  • Many were the books of Terry Pratchet... and I haven't read any of them. RIP Sir Terry. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.187|108.162.249.18 ...t in the fall, as will the last of the Long Earth series. But here another author are there to finish any loose ends). You will be missed, and thanks to Rand
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  • *This is a valiant effort to create a transcript for the ''continually''(?) growing dynamic comic [[1506: xkcloud]]. ...page of the comic is [[1506: xkcloud#Transcript|transcribed]] as usual on the [[1506: xkcloud|main page]].
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  • ...it. What's more, there is no explanation of the practically unique absence of mouseover text. [[User:BinaryDigit|BinaryDigit]] ([[User talk:BinaryDigit|t : Lack of mouseover / alt and title attributes is common in **interactive** comics. -
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  • | titletext = I'm staring at the "doctor" section, and I can't help but feel like I've forgotten someone. ...of Justice}} was soon to be released at the time the comic was made where the two eponymous {{w|superheroes}}, {{w|Batman}} and {{w|Superman}}, fight aga
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  • ...osts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--> ...the next line, Dr Strangelove ("or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"). I can't believe this order is arbitrary. [[Special:Contributions/17
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  • | title = The Rise of Open Access ....342.6154.58 PDF version] is still available on the site. A larger version of this image can be found [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/the_r
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  • ...did the right thing. Of course he may not have been scientific enough, if the reasons his feelings and happiness decreases is caused by some outside agen I think the r0, r1, r2 are correlation coefficients. They are all between -1 and 1, an
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  • ...s lurking in his room and striking when he sat down at his computer, hence the keyboard smash. It could be him being taken, or perhaps the spider getting adjusted to the keyboard rather clumsily, what would you see as more feasible?
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  • ...mit where they shouldn't be). A friend used to freely admit he didn't like the taste and only drank to get drunk. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.161| This is why there are so many different styles of beers, or wines, or other alcoholic beverages.  I personally don't care f
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  • | title = The Martian ...never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't
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  • | titletext = Instead of bobcat, package contained chair. ...way}} (the disputed authorship of the story is referenced several times in the comic).
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