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  • <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Black Hat|Comics featuring ...hat style hat, that quickly evolved to have the current shape and style of a {{w|pork pie hat}}, already used in [[45: Schrodinger]].
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  • ...yone is so hungry for BAD news, but fine, I'll give in to feedback and add a dark mode. This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemi
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  • <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe|Comics feat ...e time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat par
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  • ...a portmanteau, from the words motor and hotel. A {{w|neologism}} is simply a newly coined word that is not yet in common use. ...this new word is one of the very words used in the process. This is called a [[917|meta]] or "self-referential" joke.
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  • ...sting resources {{w|reinventing the wheel}}, whilst offering their clients a certain amount of simplicity and compatibility between vendors. ...ensome. As a result, someone eventually takes on the challenge of creating a universal standard that everyone can rally around.
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  • [[File:Terrible small logo.png|200px|right]]{{TOC}}{{Quote|A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.|[https://xkcd.com xkcd.co ...mics are posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and are accompanied by a [[Title text|title text]], serving as Randall's commentary.
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  • This is a list of comics from 1 to 500. {{comicsrow|486|2008-10-08|I am Not a Ninja}}
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  • ...x|right|thumb|Logo by [[User:Alek2407]], made transparent and resized by [[User:Omega]].]] Here is a tour of various entry points to the site:
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  • ...live, or where they came from determines which comic they actually see. As a result, there are actually multiple comics that went up on April Fools' Day ...he comic, refers to the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok)
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  • ...a string is "s", e.g. "s/old/new/g" replaces any occurrence of "old" with "new". The title therefore contains the command to change "keyboard" into "leopa ...And Chair" or {{w|PEBKAC}}, which means that the problem is caused by the user, not by any failure of the computer. However, due to the substitution, it i
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  • ...]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the new site was launched. This comic was published on the same day across both sit ...ic is both funny (as it is unexpected) and not funny (as the last line was a non sequitur and therefore there is no climax) at the same time, thus provi
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  • ...text = The typical internet user (who wants to share) has an IQ of 147 and a 9-inch penis. Better than the reverse, I guess ...gle to show how many hits (or web pages) are returned as relevant based on a given search replacing <X> by different numbers.
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  • ...r situation from a previous xkcd strip. In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial. Most of the panels are references to previous xkcd strips, but a few are not.
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  • | titletext = The top computer champion at Seven Minutes in Heaven is a Honda-built Realdoll, but to date it has been unable to outperform the huma ...ars in parenthesis in the comic are the year that the game was mastered by a computer):
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  • ...holding a {{w|smartphone}}, tells [[White Hat]] that everyone now carries a computer in their pocket, and refers to how it is always on-line (connected ...{w|cryogenics}}''' (hence the title) far enough for humans to survive such a deep freeze, and then she climbs into her homemade chamber and plans to ski
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  • | titletext = I just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wil ...y spread misinformation but make said misinformation seem reliable through a process of "circular reporting".
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  • The comic shows - in human language - part of the conversations that a browser and web server do in order to get the right page. The protocol they ...going to be in portrait orientation, so restyling it accordingly) is often a continuing problem. As are the continual intrusive popovers 'suggesting' th
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  • | title = Linux User at Best Buy ...erating systems and software. As such, the subtext is that somebody buying a complete pre-packaged home computer system at Best Buy wouldn't know or car
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  • ...o read (and potentially 'grep' for incriminating terms) and to show off in a creative way using in-group jargon. The comic is narrated by [[Cueball]] as ...ve days (Monday to Friday) and not over the usual schedule of three comics a week. These are all the comics in [[:Category:1337|1337 series]]:
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  • ...tudy was overseen by Dvorak himself). And the 'slow typists down' thing is a myth. Also EMACS RULES VI DROOLS WOOOOOOO! ...e QWERTY layout, and were unwilling to take the time and effort to learn a new one.
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  • | titletext = I hear in some places, you need to fill one form of ID to buy a gun, but two to pay for it by check. It's interesting to see who has what i ...get right, since launching the missile at the wrong target could result in a disastrous unintended loss of life or property damage.
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  • ...eference to the very popular comic [[149: Sandwich]], which has now become a geek culture catch-phrase. It is a recurring theme in ''FoxTrot'' for Jason to offer to make substitute comics
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  • ...ning in it all at once. [[Cueball]] comments about this while hanging from a balloon, which brings to mind the expanded perspective over the landscape a ...n outside that panel. The image displayed at first turns out to be part of a huge landscape, filled with big or small things, humorous details, people h
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  • ...r software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and rich input device capability for networked computers. ...the server do not need to be on the same system; X11 frequently runs over a network connection. This adds considerably to the complexity of the mechani
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  • [[Cueball]] is buying some new speakers for his television, and asks [[Megan]] if they have the right cord ...s Megan protests, calling his ideas "a joke." An exasperated Cueball tells a {{w|Lightbulb joke|lightbulb joke}}, the content of which implies that the
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  • ...e first panel, [[Megan]] describes G+ as 'not {{w|Facebook}}'. Facebook is a popular social networking site.<sup>&#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''cita ...grow tired of Facebook, its arcane policies, its cavalier attitude toward user privacy and/or its general disdain for end users, and people want to leave
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  • ...to search for phrases and then charts the results. This one is charted as a timeline, whereas 715 was charted as line graphs. It is a list of things predicted or announced by anyone at any time (the ones you s
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  • ...eds upgrading, or perhaps they are between projects, or simply waiting for a go-ahead. Coders still need to make themselves available to perform emerge {{w|Dvorak Simplified Keyboard|Dvorak}} is a keyboard layout that was proposed in 1936 as an alternative to the existing
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  • ...ractical modern project where alternatives exist, where anything more than a {{w|%22Hello,_World!%22_program|Hello World}} could be awkward to implement ...eeds to be completely rewritten if one wants to port it to a computer with a different architecture.
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  • | titletext = This really is a true story, and she doesn't know I put it in my comic because her wifi hasn ...ted, installed, and configured by users, it tends to either attract or, in a few cases, create individuals who take disproportionate pleasure in, and de
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  • ...stagram.com/about/legal/terms/ terms of use], allowing the network to sell user-uploaded images, without profit to the content generators. This infuriated ...lls his Cueball-like friend about his problem with Chad, who just sent him a note telling him that he no longer wants to store all this stuff that Cueba
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  • ...er vehicles, but the reduced overhead is worth it. There was one week when a wheel of cheese got dangerously close to the first page, though. ...have actually reinvented the wheel at one point in time - a {{w|tire}} is a modern improvement to the wheel, which reduces bumps and shocks that people
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  • | title = New Car | titletext = Somewhere out there is a company that has actually figured out how to enlarge penises, and it's help
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  • ...blem of dissuading {{w|Spamming|spammers}} from joining and participating. A common solution to this problem is the use of various systems to prevent au This captcha and spamming prevention also has a downside, in that the time it takes to "prove you're human" is sometimes so
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  • ...~', 'xX_StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNess_Xx', and 'Star Trek lnto Darkness' (that's a lowercase 'L'). ...nating between making and reverting the change, and usually accompanied by a more-or-less heated debate on the talk page.
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  • ...l cryptographic keys generated by the system. The problem was created when a Debian developer removed one line of code that was crucial, even though it ...ing|blacklists}}, thereby preventing their use and forcing users to create new keys. [[Randall]] claims that he was affected by that when uploading this c
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  • | titletext = The G1, especially with the new Android upgrade, is way better than I originally thought. ...ch was a location-aware feature of Google Maps that allowed a mobile phone user to allow certain people to view their current location. The reason it is wo
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  • ...the addresses, using them as a modern tip jar for high-tech users. Here's a list of all the addresses mentioned in this article that have appeared in t ...added to [https://xkcd.com/bitcoin xkcd.com/bitcoin], which today returns a 404 error. The first web archive of the page is dated [https://web.archive.
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  • ...e actually caused by viruses are never suspected by people to be caused by a virus. ...(too slow to start up, too much clutter on screen, etc.), or user error. A virus can potentially cause those symptoms, but it's much more common for t
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  • ...ity of YouTube comments was novel. Since then, this observation has become a widely accepted truism about the Internet. In this case, the {{rw|Moon_land ...n the grounds that he had provoked Aldrin to the point where the punch was a justified response.
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  • ...accounts on new websites somewhat indiscriminately. Thus, one could create a simple Web service to collect users' usernames, email addresses, and passwo In panel 7, the comic suddenly develops a philosophical and ethical bent. Black Hat reveals that he has already carri
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  • ...etext = Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sci ...ve of blogs. This comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by a {{w|fractal}} of blogs.
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  • ...-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take. A [http://xkcd.com/802_large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by
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  • | titletext = StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted. ...e given up on writing the sorted-merge part of the sort, which is why it's a ''{{Wiktionary|half-hearted}}'' merge sort, but instead concatenates the ha
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  • ...maller numbers he has to SAVE lives. The birthrate channel is even more of a mixed bag. ...route to the target, automatically using another route if a connection or a transmitting host fails.
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  • ...br><br><span style="color:grey">Different title text:</span> The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via this link. Curr ...ented a competition for students to see who could come closest to breaking a {{w|Skein (hash function)|Skein hash}} but also an aid appeal for the Wikim
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  • {{w|Adblock}} is a browser extension which prevents advertisements from being displayed. Presu ...in fact, sites that use this branding in their advertisements and/or their user interface which is likely what inspired [[Randall]] to write this comic. Cu
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  • This comic was probably a reaction to the installation service {{w|Ninite}} [http://www.reddit.com/r/ ...of software changes (and changes in the way Adobe allows users to download new software) could result in confused users. In this case, the comic is saying
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  • ...to River, "adequate" vacuuming systems drain the human body at about half a liter per second. ...ig certain measurements are (e.g., how long an inch or a foot is, how much a pound weighs). This comic points out that people who were brought up using
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  • | title = A New CAPTCHA Approach | image = a new captcha approach.png
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  • ...ag; so when a user searches for "Country breakup music," they will receive a list of {{w|Country music|country}} songs about breaking up. ...t the tags well. When Cueball asks for a second example, Megan gives him a new example for the same set of tags, which is really impressive.
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  • ...while reading words or text, seeing sequences of numbers or month names in a distinct and fixed shape ({{w|Number form}}), etc. In [[1608: Hoverboard]] {{w|Color-blindness}} is one of a number of conditions in which a person cannot distinguish certain pairs of colors that other people without
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  • *A larger version of the image is available [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/onli ...by size and related points of interest. We also have a "Sea of Memes" and a small "Straits of WEB 2.0."
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  • ...al music, tying it back to the ''Mother of All Demos'' title. The third is a reference to contemporary internet memes, specifically [http://knowyourmeme ...as published. While it might have seemed like an advantage at the time, in a modern context this aspect of the internet appears disturbing.
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  • ...ds remaining" part indicates that there is a time limit for this, and thus a ''quick response'' is necessary. ...QR code reads, "To continue reading," and the caption reads, "How to trap a webcomic reader in an infinite loop". The QR code is identical to the previ
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  • ...rly aiming to disrupt the entire Google Glass project. "Silicon Valley" is a term for the southern San Francisco Bay Area where many technologically up- ...ve not thought this excuse through. He then tries to get them to look into a laser light.
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  • ...al Astronomical Union}} (IAU) [http://www.iau.org/science/news/179/ issued a document] about public naming of astronomical objects. It stated, "IAU full ...s the case of {{w|Boaty McBoatface}}, in which the internet decided to dub a British research vessel "Boaty McBoatface". The boat was given the name {{w
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  • ...es important for people to know what type of communication is preferred by a recipient, or most likely to reach the recipient quickly and generate the m ...e-mail configured to make an audible alert, possibly by being forwarded to a cell phone.
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  • *A larger version of the picture can be found [https://xkcd.com/1256/large her ...nerally made based on popular searches by other people. From time to time, a particularly strange or hilarious one may be found, as is evidenced in this
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  • ...g time passes before he finally points this out. He has probably submitted a post and is awaiting for comments that are not coming. Cueball might actual ...lt with by human moderators in a timely fashion. In short, the internet as a whole does not reward or reinforce firstposting the way it once did pre-201
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  • ...4 {{w|Tab (GUI)|tabs}} on {{W|Google Chrome}} on a {{w|1080p}} screen, the user can no longer see any text on the tabs. Long before this point (~20 tabs), ...in the background, or when a site with such a video automatically opens in a tab that does not become the active tab when it opens.
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  • ...lways installing tons of weird experimental keyboards because it serves as a good reminder that nothing I was going to type was really worth the trouble ...pported by language models. Because this space is still under development, new software keyboards promising better text entry continue to appear.
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  • ...ecurity.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/a-tour-of-password-questions-and-answers/ A tour of password questions and answers] for background on salts and suitabl ...oses a great deal of information about the passwords, and does not involve a salt. This password database was recently obtained by someone and released
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  • ...mon for the websites/companies to then use that information for presenting new advertisements in the near future, or even sell it to others for ''their'' In 2013 (publishing of this comic), a recent trend was to allow harvesting of profile pictures and real names, mo
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  • ...ay ''OK Glass'' so loud that other people will notice they have these cool new glasses. This was very annoying in general! ...is even more annoying to the bystander than if he would actually have worn a real ''Google Glass'' while saying so. He thus both annoys other people, mo
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  • | titletext = And it doesn't pop up a box every time asking you to use your real name. In fact, there's no way to ...n the documentation for the product. [[Cueball]] has found such a feature, a chat room intended to ask for help, accessible through the help page of som
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  • This comic shows a number of common events, arranged in a grid. Each of the events flashes with its average frequency. For example, statistically a child is born somewhere on the world approximately every 0.24 seconds, or f
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  • | titletext = New phone OS features: Infinite customization (home screen icons no longer snap ...new joke phone designs with many strange and useless features. It is also a reference to the recently released {{w|iPhone 12}}. However, there have onl
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  • ...ympathize with the TPP protagonist because I, too, have progressed through a surprising number of stages of life despite spending entire days stuck agai ...radical new variant of streaming gameplay videos created in early 2014 — a few days before this comic was released.
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  • ...) ARGH. How are these stupid microchips so durable?! All I want is to undo a massive industrial process with household tools! ...random silicon crystal can't do anything at all until someone has applied a complex industrial process to it that allows it to read and execute compute
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  • | titletext = Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story ...06: xkcloud]] released on Wednesday April 1st, 2015. This comic was posted a day earlier than normal (on Tuesday instead of Wednesday) to honor {{w|Apri
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  • ...off the shoulder of Orion, c-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I should probably patch OpenSSL. ...ic library. This bug was publicly revealed on Monday, 7 April 2014. Due to a programming error in OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f — meaning the
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  • ...e to let LiveJournal die out like the Morse Code, Cueball describes it as "a nice place to go for some peace and quiet". :[Cueball and Megan are lying in a grassy, lonely plain.]
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  • ...res root). If you experience sudden tingling, nausea, or vomiting, perform a factory reset immediately. Do not submerge in water; phone will drown. Exte ...de of mobile-technology related issues that, when brought together, create a general satire of smartphone advertising. It was the first entry in the ong
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  • | titletext = But still, my scheme for creating and saving user config files and data locally to preserve them across reinstalls might be u ...point of view of a {{w|smartphone}} user but have already been around for a long time on desktop or {{w|laptop}}/notebook computers.
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  • ...doxical nature of such a bottom is the proposition that the world rests on a semi-infinite stack of turtles. ...18th. One recent version appears in {{W|Stephen Hawking}}'s 1988 book {{W|A Brief History of Time}}, which starts:
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  • ...o create a useful filename, or those who don't understand what constitutes a useful filename are setting themselves up for future frustration. ...ave "copy 2", "copy 3", etc. appended. When searching documents later, the user may struggle to remember which copy is the correct one to use.
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  • | titletext = My New Year's resolution for 2014-54-12/30/14 Dec:12:1420001642 is to learn these ...any {{w|New Year's resolutions}}, and even though this is just before {{w|new year}} 2015, his resolution is to find out what an email is!
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  • ...e difficult to extract notes from them). As songs play several dozen notes a minute (and some songs, many more), this would lead to the flooding of frie ...lack MIDI" music files would contain thousands, or even millions of notes (a notable example being "Pi" by TSMB2 [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7ipUQo
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  • ...xt = There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The ...of the number and degrees of internal dependencies and interactions within a piece of software).
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  • ...o right) a {{w|Macintosh}}, several old laptops, an {{w|Alienware}} tower, a {{w|Nintendo}} {{w|VirtualBoy}}, an old desktop with the cover off, and an ...[2150: XKeyboarCD]], where the word Keyboard, has an X before the word and a C before the D with the xkcd letters capitalized.
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  • *This is a valiant effort to create a transcript for the ''continually''(?) growing dynamic comic [[1506: xkcloud *From there you have to choose either a picture to a text or a text to an image.
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  • Here is a collection from the dynamic comic [[1506: xkcloud]] of pictures presumably ...re into the editor. The method has been pasted in at the bottom of [[#Copy a picture into the comic|this page]].
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  • ...andall found his own method to determine which words would go on his list, a list that is revealed in the book. (It can also be found [https://www.xkcd. ...ockpit controls), and the little bags of water you're made of (cells). See a summary below and also the [[#Things in this book by page|entire index from
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  • ...n their names. Various Internet groups have speculated on who would win in a fight between characters from different films. It may be relevant that the ...ing on the lower right of the bracket features a several retail stores and a film.
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  • ...tallman. They stare in silence. "This," one of them finally says, "This is a man who BELIEVED in something." ...hat he stopped using Macs in 2001, after Mac OS had been superseded by the new and then-buggy {{w|Mac OS X}}.
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  • ...ish pop girl group formed in 1994. It consists of five girls who each have a "spice girl" nickname. The five girls with their respective nicknames are: ...ted through a door in a postapocalyptic dystopia''. This is a reference to a trope in movies set in such postapocalyptic settings (which Randall presuma
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  • *Below is a table of 2252 feed entries, featuring 1528 different pictures and 1993 diff *[[1506: xkcloud/List of Permalinks]] contains a list of all discovered permalinks, which reuse different combinations of th
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  • ...where White Hat is, we see that a giant {{w|spider}} has imprisoned him in a web and is talking to Cueball, which explains how the keyboard mashing "Whi ...really been cast into doubt by Cueball's inquiries about how "7" got into a string of home-row keystrokes.
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  • This comic is a series of programming jokes about a ridiculous new programming language, perhaps inspired by {{w|Mathematica}} and {{w|Wolfram ...se mixing, since it can hugely simplify expressions. Variation and lack of a clearly more intuitive behaviour leads some languages to have weird results
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  • ...hysterectomy" or "8 alcohol drinks a day", surely would be interesting for a medical insurance company to know. ...of that and now concerns have moved to internet privacy only because it's "new". What is perceived as dangerous or worrying follows trends and fashions no
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  • ..."We made another one®©™" is a reference to how phone companies release new phones very often, and the trademarks that surround the phone itself. From ...udged by the wristband) would also preclude inserting AA batteries, unless a protruding battery compartment is hidden out of view on the back of the pho
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  • ...until, in 2006, the {{w|International Astronomical Union}} (IAU) created a new definition for the word 'planet' designed to exclude Pluto and similar obje ...ttle more confusing'. This is in line with Black Hat's characterization as a mischief-maker.
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  • | titletext = Yes, it took a lot of work to make the cards and pieces, but it's worth it--the players ar ...([[Hairy]], [[Ponytail]], and [[Hairbun]]) of a local board game club – a hobbyist group that gets together to play board games. However, the board g
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  • ...it, a lot of "things I want to do" are just learning about and discussing new tools for tinkering with the chain. The comic is about how much time a geek might spend on a computer just to maintain the system itself, rather than actually using it
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  • | titletext = And a different ghost has replaced me in the bedroom. ...yer is shown as ghostly and transparent, because it is only a recording of a previous game and it does not interact in any way with the game currently b
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