...Stygimoloch spinifer' (meaning 'horned dragon from the river of death') in the semifinals.
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| titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'.
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...ies I do the same thing, but the other way around.|Randall Munroe|[https://xkcd.com/about Source]}}
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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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...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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...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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...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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| 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
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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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...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.
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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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...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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...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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| 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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...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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...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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...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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| titletext = It's turtles all the way down.
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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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| 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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...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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| 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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*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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| 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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| title = The Rise of Open Access
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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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...joke so far into the ground they'll have to build levees around it to keep the sea out.
...to exclude Pluto and similar objects, resulting in much debate (The IAU is the organization that takes responsibility for naming celestial bodies like pla
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...nnings. Meanwhile, in a huge upset, 11-year-old Martha Stewart knocked out the adult Ronda Rousey.
...eballs strength to be that of a typical adult hobbyist, with a FIDE rating of [https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/2qcv95/what_is_the_strength_of_the
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| titletext = The Romeo and Butt-Head film actually got two thumbs up from Siskel and Oates.
...estament}}). (See the [[#Trivia|trivia section]] regarding an on-line list of duos).
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...y: There's no such thing as corn. Those fields you see are just the stalks of a fungus that's controlling our brains to make us want to spread it.
...ed by the fungus, since they tell [[Ponytail]] that they want to cultivate the fungus as much as possible.
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...are inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeating the process until it compiles.
...s a replacement texture from the area surrounding the deleted part instead of copying a user-specified area exactly.
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...etext = "Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. —Randall Munroe
...ay be quoted when using any of the provided lines, as stated at the top of the comic.
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...ame=CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5754]. CVEs also contain a short description of the issue.
...ater in 2018. Each CVE identifier is given as "CVE-2018-?????", reflecting the fact that they have not yet happened so we don't know exactly what their CV
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| titletext = In competition, you can only play a name if you know who the person is. No fair saying "Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real perso
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<noinclude>:''"2012", this comic's number, redirects here. For the comic named "2012", see [[998: 2012]].''</noinclude>
...ation with several bellringing experts at the Tower of London. Transcripts of those interviews are available in Appendix VII.
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...novelization of "Surf Ninjas." How did you-- Oh my god, it's signed by the author?!
...buting it to an increased illiteracy. This allows for fond nostalgia about the times when they were supposedly more intelligent and focused. For instance,
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...ouldn't have the iconic photo of a screaming Truman being hoisted aloft by the newspaper-printing machinery..."
...d into a {{w|The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|popular TV series}} of the same name on Amazon Prime.
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[[File:xkcd_header.png|thumb|right|250px|The header segment on [[xkcd|xkcd.com]]]]
...[Randall]] has news to share. However, after the novelty of the news ends, the page usually goes back to its default header text, which states:
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| titletext = This comic won't exist in the archives. NOTHING IS REAL.
...as placed between the Friday comic [[2184: Unpopular Opinions]] but before the normal Monday comic update, which became [[2185: Cumulonimbus]].
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| title = Serena Versus the Drones
| titletext = After the test, she said that if she had a choice, she wouldn’t defend herself agai
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| titletext = First prize is a free ticket to the kissing booth.
This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}.
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[[File:xkcd_volume_0.jpeg|260px|right|thumb|The cover of the book]]
...sue, please '''[{{fullurl:{{{target|{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}}|action=edit}} edit the page]!''' Thanks.}}
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...omic's explanation on this wiki when browsing a comic on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. They typically come in three main forms: {{w|browser extensions}}, {{
....com comic page itself, to take you to that comic's explanation page. None of these have been tested here.
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<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow|Comics featuring Cor
...erly Cory Doctorow cosplaying by wearing what the future thinks he wore in the past.".
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<noinclude>:''For other instances of this title, see [[What If (disambiguation)]].</noinclude>
...ncember, the cursed 13th month that exists between December and January in the transdimensional temporal plane.
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| title = The Wrong Stuff
...ale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
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| titletext = It says to cut the onions into 1/4" slices, but I'd better correct for length contraction.
...on (t), and then calculates what speed of light fraction would account for the cooking time difference.
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=Table of planets=
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...membering that it ultimately has a common root with "finite", and thus has the two 'i's, might not help if you also/instead perhaps link it in your head t
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...was [[2601: Instructions]], which was released on Friday, April 1st, 2022. The next became [[2916: Machine]] released on Friday April 5th, 2024 (a regular
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<noinclude>:''For other instances of this title, see [[What If (disambiguation)]].</noinclude>
...o might appreciate it, basically anyone who is into science or anything in the universe... So basically anyone.
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| titletext = CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: The authors hope these results are correct because we all want to be cool peopl
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