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Randall explained in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 a speech at Google] five days before this comic was released that he was nerd sniped, i ...ery State] (7 years after this comics release), the entire comic was shown at the top and the truck again further down the post—Randall has again been

...Earth, they will meet at that same angle on the map. It also follows that at every point the vertical and horizontal scales are the same, so locally i.e ...wn as {{w|Virtual reality headset|VR headsets}}, were considered a gimmick at best. The original idea is as old as 3D graphics, but it never really took

...iful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind}} in which {{w|John Forbes Nash, Jr.|Dr. John Forbes Nash, Jr.}} comes up with his famous concept of {{w|Nash equilibrium ...retical physics to the general public, a practice that was not very common at that time. One of his more famous books, ''{{w|Surely You're Joking, Mr. Fe

It appears that the (at the time) {{w|United States presidential election, 2012|upcoming 2012 elect ...ween the states proportional to their population; although each state gets at least one (the House also has non-voting representatives from non-state ter

...ightmare about being swarmed by hundreds of mouse-sized dromaeosaurids, my work will have been done. Cueball is holding a lit cigarette, recalling the role of chain-smoking John "Ray" Arnold, the Chief Engineer of Jurassic Park, played by {{w|Samuel L.

| titletext = My favorite thing to do at parties is to talk judgmentally about people who aren't there. ...rty, only to find himself tuning out the gossip of his friends in order to work on math problems in his head. He writes down the prime numbers on cards, an

...o, if you read his speech at Rice, all his arguments for going to the moon work equally well as arguments for blowing up the moon, sending cloned dinosaurs On May 25, 1961, U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]] gave a [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/xzw1gaeeTES6khE

...restrictions is one of the most alarming tendencies of the present age.' --John Harvey Kellogg, Ladies' guide in health and disease (1883) ..., a couple of decades ago, and this has been happening for over a century (at least). This comic makes a point that the older times people refer to, were

...ogle search results. Strip versions of popular games are a common activity at parties, especially when alcohol is involved. The obligation to remove piec ...e other columns named sports or board games where a strip variant would be at least conceivable, the last one includes the {{w|zero-player game|zero-play

...performances of 4'33" in studios where another band happened to be playing at the time. [[File:John Cage (1988).jpg|thumb|right|John Cage in 1988 (from Wikimedia Commons)]]

...this for many years (e.g. ''{{w|National Enquirer}}''). The numbers shown at the headline are also often wrong and not covered by the article. ...effect}}; his work on relativity was still not accepted by many physicists at that time.

...ssible regular expression which would match all elements of one set, while at the same time not matching any element from the other set. The day after th ...regex golf generator, which leads to another "meta-" layer of abstraction. At the end, Megan notes this sequence of meta-meta-... might go to infinity an

:[Title panel at the top left] :[This section is right below the title panel at the top left - it covers the price of a single coffees up to the hourly sal

...new trend among teens is sweeping the nation, but is it dangerous? Details at 11:00."). ...the 1995 {{w|Oklahoma City Bombing}} on the second anniversary of the fire at the Branch Davidians compound.

...tendency goes back to ancient mythology. The opposite approach, setting a work in a speculative future, has been less common prior to modern times. The ol ...l world of this era to the one the author projected. This doesn't make the work less valuable, necessarily, but it does make the limits of such speculation

...he book down and walks off, and soon finds that he himself has been living at the bottom of a flower much like the frogs in the bromeliad. This is an all ...e Game]], and to {{w|John Conway}}, two days after he died, in [[2293: RIP John Conway]].

| titletext = At the boundary between each zone, stories blend together. Somewhere in the Ne ...(A 51st section is located in the Atlantic Ocean.) Inside each section is at least one reference that is supposed to describe the entire area encompasse

...[1506: xkcloud#Transcript|front page]] by clicking on the image of Cueball at his desk. :[At the top of the page there are the following text:]

| Average meal at the 20 costliest San Francisco restaurants ...ay/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html this NYT article] (paywall). Time cost at a rate of $16.27/hr ''maybe'' from [https://independentsector.org/wp-conten

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...thumbs up, but Ebert has been replaced with Oates. This is a reference to John Oates of {{w|Hall & Oates}}, a famous American musical duo from Philadelphi | {{w|Abbott and Costello}} is a famous American comedy duo whose work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made them the most p

...oftware, all without getting anything useful done. Thus, he is embarrassed at this revelation. This time waste is a common subject on xkcd, as shown for ...lyrics here]). [http://lyricsmusic.name/john-mellencamp-lyrics/words-music-john-mellencamps-greatest-hits/jack-and-diane.html A remix] made using just this

| titletext = J.J. Thompson won a Nobel Prize for his work in electricity in gases, but was unfairly passed over for his "An atom is p ...our understanding of an atom, and adds a few humorous ones in to poke fun at how diverse, contentious, and in retrospect often foolhardy, this history h

...ilar to the states' names. The joke is that Randall is apparently terrible at remembering states by heart, or else that he interpreted "name" as "give a This comic is similar to [[1759: British Map]]. Also note that the text at the top of the comic is not in all caps.

...Shannon}} was an early and highly influential information scientist whose work underlies compression, encryption, security, and the theory behind how info ;At the cafe on Third Street, the Post-it note with the WiFi password is visibl

...up. Because most people have two or more names, different matches are made at each end of a domino. Fun fact is that two of the people are "named after" ...Washington}}), musicians ({{w|Drake (musician)|Drake}}), politicians ({{w|John Kerry}}), actors ({{w|Kevin Costner}}), writers ({{w|Washington Irving}}),

...e to the opposing party, which could lead to serious political instability at the precise moment when the country is facing a national crisis. It even pr ...enior government officials gather (such as the {{w| State of the Union}}), at least one member of the line of succession (referred to as the "designated

...inserted in the sixth and seventh rows, but no, they're just floating down at the bottom with lots more undiscovered elements all around them. ...ose elements (including germanium and gallium) helped validate Mendeleev's work. Other gaps, however, were not due to undiscovered elements, but merely res

| title = RIP John Conway {{w|John Horton Conway|John Conway}}, an English mathematician, passed away of [[:Category:COVID-19|COV

...an borrowed the word "dynamic" from physics as being both accurate for his work and as a word that in plain English has positive connotations and is never ...ntified amount of noise or uncertainty in a signal. Computer scientist {{w|John von Neumann}} noticed the similarity of the equations with some in thermody

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| titletext = I actually kind of feel like John and Surf King wouldn't like each other, which is a lot to unpack. ...uses the nickname of "Surf King". His phone also knows of a person called John, which seems to be the real name of the same person, although Cueball appea

This comic was the ground work for the next [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' Day comic]] of 20 ...the {{w|Newton's cannonball}} thought experiment, where a cannon is fired at greater and greater speeds until the cannonball goes into orbit. Newton's

...value, even apart from the value of a kilogram of platinum (about $32 000 at time of writing). ...untries' institutions were less prominent and performed substantially less work on the initial sequencing. James Watson's genome was sequenced in 2007. The

:[A rollercoaster with a duck sitting on it. At the middle of it there's a (hidden) entrance to the shaft. There's an item :[Ponytail sitting on top of a pyramid, Megan standing at the base of it]