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  • Main Page
    which is not really a comic, even though we've categorised it so. --> ...[[Special:ContributionScores|Lots of people]] contribute to make this wiki a success. Many of the recent contributors, listed above, have [http://www.ex
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  • Talk:346: Diet Coke+Mentos
    ...lt. I am sure there are real reviews that criticize xkcd, but this is just a joke blog.{{unsigned|Flewk}}
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  • Black Hat
    <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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  • 1079: United Shapes
    | titletext = That eggplant is in something of a flaccid state. A large version is [http://xkcd.com/1079/large/ here].
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  • 1082: Geology
    | titletext = That's a gneiss butte. ...eology)|cleavage}}," "deeper in the {{w|rift}}," "{{w|orogeny}}," (perhaps a {{w|portmanteau}} of {{w|orgy}} and {{w|erogenous}}), "huge," and "{{w|Thru
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  • 1081: Argument Victory
    [[Cueball]] is arguing with a {{w|conspiracy theorist}} who believes in some {{rw|conspiracy}}, who is si ..." websites can be made by anyone and have little limitations. The maker of a ".net" does not need to show sources of information or even their name. As
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  • 1080: Visual Field
    ...y, when I looked at an analog clock, the hand would sometimes seem to take a couple seconds to start ticking. Google "stopped clock illusion". A [https://xkcd.com/1080/large/ larger version] of this image can be found by
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  • 1083: Writing Styles
    | titletext = I liked the idea, suggested by h00k on bash.org, of a Twitter bot that messages prominent politicians to tell them when they've u ...age Service, which limited messages to 160 characters. Twitter has adopted a 140 character limit since its inception, which allowed any given tweet to b
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  • 1084: Server Problem
    ...ommand that lists the files in the current directory. The computer returns a bizarre error message — it trips over one of the simplest commands, indic ...in a folder called "android_vm" suggests Cueball was attempting to boot up a virtual Android device, but somehow wound up directing the Linux server to
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  • 1086: Eyelash Wish Log
    ...]] and he has quite a few wishes, most of them based on the previous wish. A common trope in fiction is that wishing for more wishes is prohibited and f ...ing a wish, where the rules are discussed by the Genie that will grant him a wish.
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  • 1085: ContextBot
    ...onary.com/define.php?term=vaguetweeting "vaguetweeting"], which is posting a short message of sadness or frustration without context. This is frustratin ...as altruistic as a for-profit company can be). In the comic, ContextBot is a fictitious Google invention which puts context for these statuses, presumab
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  • 1087: Cirith Ungol
    ...harlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spid This comic is a mash-up between the ''{{w|Lord of the Rings}}'' trilogy and the novel ''{{w
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  • 1088: Five Years
    ...er questions. You're hired!' 'Oh, sorry! I'm no longer interested. There's a bunch of future I gotta go check out!' This comic is a take on the common and cliched job interview question here asked by [[Hairb
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  • 1078: Knights
    ...k pieces may also be a reference to {{w|Edward the Black Prince}}, who was a prominent figure in an earlier stage of the Hundred Years War. As you can s .... The usual gambit of sacrificing a pawn is subverted to be a sacrifice of a high-value piece, as an analogy of what happened at Agincourt.
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  • 239: Blagofaire
    ...y}}ing him. This comic inspired several xkcd readers to give Cory Doctorow a red cape and goggles when he won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award. Cory Doctorow' :Man in Red Cape and Goggles: Are you a blogger? I play one of you at our festivals!
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  • 1077: Home Organization
    ...problem, Cueball "Just Gives Up" and puts all his items and furniture into a box labeled "Misc" for miscellaneous, with the exception of his laptop, ca ...osts on how to "hack" your life and improve it. Life hacking appears to be a common theme in xkcd, such as in [[2024: Light Hacks]].
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  • 1076: Groundhog Day
    ...nsylvania, where the film is set. The folklore ritual consists in removing a {{w|groundhog}} from its burrow. If the sun is shining and the groundhog ca ...oncept of {{w|Absolute Infinity}}, which he equaled with {{w|God}}. It was a common concern in Cantor's time to preserve the consistency between mathema
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  • 1075: Warning
    ...of human, if anything happens to said box on wheels, such as crashing into a wall, the humans inside may be badly injured, if not killed. Had they evolv ...ndividuals may have moved faster than that by falling out of a tree or off a cliff. Fast vehicles, on the other hand, have only appeared in the last cou
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  • 1074: Moon Landing
    ...ons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the sur ...]] is referring is [https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/73388356461019136 a tweet] by {{w|Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, an American astrophysicist and science
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  • 1073: Weekend
    This comic was posted right after the '''weekend''', on a Monday, so it was on time to emphasize that ''we all hate Mondays''. In the first image, there is a reference to the {{w|Loverboy}} song "{{w|Working for the Weekend}}"; both
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  • 114: Computational Linguists
    ...ongst teenagers, which is probably why he now feels that they are too easy a target for him. ...this has similarities to the emos' refrain above, or he may just be taking a swipe at them by suggesting that they think themselves above normal scienti
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  • 1072: Seventies
    ...stent in the 1970s, and his telephone has a {{w|rotary dial}}, rather than a {{w|touch tone}}, so he can't "press" 1. ...th 1970s fashion. The caller is somehow using time travel to directly dial a number in the present.
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  • 1071: Exoplanets
    ...his chart would have to be nested in itself—with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart—at least three levels deep. *A [http://xkcd.com/1071/large/ larger version] of this image can be found by
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  • 1070: Words for Small Sets
    ...always mean "two". As with the question of how many spaces should go after a period, it can turn acrimonious surprisingly fast unless all three of them ...use of the word "couple" to refer to exactly one pair of people who are in a romantic relationship.
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  • Talk:1070: Words for Small Sets
    ...e within the range that makes sense to me. Also, check out how he sneaks "a couple of friends" and "all three of them" into the image text very sneakil ...l means 12 because I have always understood it to mean 12. I seem to be in a population of 1 though. I wonder how many times I've confused other people
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  • 1069: Alphabet
    This comic is mainly a joke on the traditional {{w|pick-up line}} that goes: "Baby, if I could rea ...ographies. Unsurprisingly, {{w|English-language spelling reform}} has been a common topic of discussion over the years.
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  • 1068: Swiftkey
    ...wiftKey}} on his smartphone and brags about this to [[Megan]]. SwiftKey is a product that is installable on {{w|iOS}}/{{w|Android (operating system)|And ...ous word(s) and what it believes is the most likely words you would use in a sentence containing the previous word(s).
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  • 1067: Pressures
    ...yone's caught by surprise when a theory of quantum gravity is developed by a sound technician wearing patent leather shoes while editing Clerks II. ...al universities was beneficial to the science of physics, as the duties as a patent clerk were not challenging to him, paid enough, and allowed him to w
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  • Megan
    <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Megan|Comics featuring Meg '''Megan''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. She is the second-most frequently a
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  • 1066: Laundry
    ...m in the closet. By the second month dirty clothes are no longer stored in a laundry hamper and are just dumped on the floor, and by the end of the seme ...wash their clothes in the dishwasher along with the dishes. Presumably as a timesaver. The experiment was brief because dishwashers aren't actually any
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  • Beret Guy
    <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy|Comics featuring '''Beret Guy''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is distinguished by his white be
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  • 1065: Shoes
    ...side a box that is floating in a beam of heavenly light. Inside the box is a pair of shoes with five toes - and with these magic shoes, he can outrun {{ This comic refers to a new type of {{w|Minimalist shoe|running shoes}} which have very little actu
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  • 1064: Front Door
    | titletext = FYI: I'll be releasing a wolf into a randomly-chosen front yard sometime in the next 30 years. Now your fear is ...rs?" or "Is that an axe murderer hiding in that hedge?" or "There might be a [[:Category:Velociraptors|velociraptor]] lurking nearby". (However in all o
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  • 1063: Kill Hitler
    ...bidden for you to interfere with human history until you've at least taken a class on it. ...n for "be right back". He soon returns, commenting that he found Hitler in a very noisy bunker in the year 1945.
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  • 1062: Budget News
    ...no questions asked, for any candidate who describes themselves as 'more of a deficit sugar glider.' ...to reduce the deficit, pay off national debt, and balance the budget is by a combination of increasing taxes and cutting government spending."
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  • 1061: EST
    ...ty theory that if you attempt to simplify a system of problems by creating a new system of evaluation for the problems you often have instead made the p ...stands for ''Earth Standard Time'' (hence the title), but it is in itself a joke on the American {{w|Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard Time}}. In the
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  • 1060: Crowdsourcing
    ...aining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than ...s strategy are all feasible separately, and because he describes them with a barrage of trendy buzzwords, his audience is impressed and fails to notice
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  • 1059: Bel-Air
    ...being a successful rapper to an ambitious politician. This may be seen as a sort of {{w|gentrification}} of black culture, one of the main themes of th ...r measure, or in this case, rap music. Obviously, the song is updated with a reference to {{w|Adele (singer)|Adele}}, who was, of course, not performing
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  • 1058: Old-Timers
    A {{w|Bulletin Board System}}, or BBS, is an online service based on microcom The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) is a non-profit genomics research institute founded by {{w|J. Craig Venter}}, Ph
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  • 1057: Klout
    ...sometimes gave away "perks" to the users with the highest Klout scores, as a means of advertising the products of their sponsors. Generally, the informa ...hat a small, active group of followers is considered more influential than a large, passive group of followers.
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  • 1849: Decades
    ...guous and clunky. None of these terms ever became popular enough to become a consensus term. Similarly for the period from 2010-2019, terms like "the 20 ...decade-grouping trend will return in the 2020s. On the one hand, such was a well-established custom, and we once again have clear language for it. On t
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  • 1056: Felidae
    This comic shows a graph with three parts. ...ing and fossil organisms) from bottom to top of which animals would win in a fight. Secondly, the names within the genus are then sorted by coolness of
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  • 1055: Kickstarter
    ...you pledge more than $50 you'll get on the VIP list and have first dibs on a slot on ANY of the pledge levels in the actual campaign. ...If the Kickstarter is for a book, a large donation makes you eligible for a signed copy.
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  • 1054: The Bacon
    ...work hard and bring money home to your family to put food on the table. If a man is out of work he may be stressed out about how to "bring home the baco At first it seems that [[White Hat]] is happy that his wife, who works as a pharmacist, does bring home the bacon, and he tells this to [[Cueball]].
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  • 523: Decline
    | titletext = 'There is also a spike on the Fourier transformation at the one month mark where--' 'You wan ...not labeling graph axes is a relationship deal-breaker). He has identified a sudden drop. Cueball's romantic partner (probably [[Megan]]) notes from off
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  • 1053: Ten Thousand
    In this strip, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] presents a mathematical argument against the idea of making fun of people for their ig ...and - instead of making fun of her, Cueball affirms that Megan is part of a special and select group - she is one of the "Lucky 10,000" who, that day,
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  • 1052: Every Major's Terrible
    | titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'. [[Randall]] has written a song called ''Every Major's Terrible'' and this comic illustrates the song.
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  • 1051: Visited
    ...an internet browser will make the links of the pages that you have visited a different color than the links that you have not visited. In the case of {{ ...e. However, on hovering the cursor over the article link, only one word at a time is underlined, showing that the links are separate.
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  • 1050: Forgot Algebra
    | titletext = The only things you HAVE to know are how to make enough of a living to stay alive and how to get your taxes done. All the fun parts of l ...h are also entirely non-essential, perhaps even more so than algebra. See "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart: https://www.maa.org/external_arch
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  • 1049: Bookshelf
    ...g with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.' ...' and instead of a secret passage, the wall swings around and takes you to a message "You have terrible taste".
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  • 1048: Emotion
    ...y of code that doesn't work and people who are wrong, which bodes well for a return to normalcy. [Note: Click to read context for the cancer comics. She ...ined end point; things are going to continue to be scary and difficult for a while.|[[Randall Munroe]]}}
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  • Category:Logic
    {{w|Logic}} is a discipline concerned with reasoning, closely related to math.
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  • 1047: Approximations
    | titletext = Two tips: 1) 8675309 is not just prime, it's a twin prime, and 2) if you ever find yourself raising log(anything)^e or tak ...sicists' mnemonic that it is "π × 10<sup>7</sup>", though he later added a statement to the top of the comic page addressing this point.
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  • User:Lcarsos
    ...in/'crat, you can come to me with problems and questions. Some may call me a {{w|BOFH}} (And I have been known to jokingly self-deprecate as well), but I'm just a big xkcd and Star Trek fan (props if you got the reference).
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  • 916: Unpickable
    ...f challenge to break into it, while all the valuables are simply stored in a shoe box ''beside'' the vault. ...uch easier to simply break open the safe with brute force than to pick it. A simple and nerdy way to open the vault with brute force would be to use can
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  • 1046: Skynet
    ...en onscreen, with its actions often performed via robots, cyborgs (usually a Terminator), and other computer systems. ...ng too focused on oneself can be a mark of obsession and anxiety (which is a common theme in XKCD), or of overly philosophical naval-gazing. Hence, in t
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  • 1045: Constraints
    ...non, where writers impose rules or patterns in their works. {{w|Haiku}} is a well known example of this. ...ad that restriction. Twitter is frequently used by well-known comedians as a place to make interesting jokes and observations. It should be noted that t
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  • 1044: Romney Quiz
    ...''South Park''?". The two people are generally chosen carefully to fulfill a particular role, for example: ...e quizzes may be used as a tool to portray a particular person or group in a certain way, or alternatively may be light-hearted jest.
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  • explain xkcd:Administrators
    ...f “System Operators”) are users who have been editing explain xkcd for a while and garnered the trust of the community, thus being [[explain xkcd:Bu A full list of tasks that admins can perform can be found at [[Special:ListGr
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  • User talk:Jeff
    ...ce|This is the talk page of Jeff, the creator of Explain XKCD. If you have a comment about the wiki, please use the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]].<b ...ExplainXKCD -- say, the first ten years of comments -- could be made into a print book, obviously only with the permission of Randall Munroe? -- margav
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  • User talk:Mynotoar
    ...ia:Help:Watching pages|watchlists]]. On a similar note, I've just started a discussion there about spammers. -''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp
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  • Template:notice
    |style="padding:0 1em"| {{{1|This is a notification template. To use it in any page, place <code><nowiki>{{notice|
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  • User:DanielT3
    ...to be perfectly honest I'm just an internet dork.<br>While my company does a good job of keeping me off the web at <br>work, I'm sure I'll be able to pi
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  • explain xkcd:Copyrights
    ...et from here has to be shared under the same CC-BY-SA-3.0 license or under a similar free license. ...sure to properly attribute/cite what you transfer, preferably by including a link to the information's source.''</small>
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  • User:Erenan
    ...omposer and wannabe philosopher. He writes and tests software and composes a lot of music. He is an aspiring independent game developer, though at the m
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  • Talk:908: The Cloud
    iCloud is not a music service. It was released (around?) the same time as iTunes Match, whi Could this also be a reference to rose petals? (#1183)--[[User:Mralext20|Mralext20]] ([[User tal
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  • 571: Can't Sleep
    ...someday DO dream of electric sheep, don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int. ...oll back over to 000000. Causing or failing to prevent integer overflow is a common mistake by programmers that may have software security consequences.
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  • 312: With Apologies to Robert Frost
    This comic presents a poem about a {{w|god}}'s dilemma of whether to create the world using {{w|Perl}} or {{w| The implication is that a universe created by Lisp would look better under close examination, the 'fo
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  • Talk:312: With Apologies to Robert Frost
    Since the wiki is so new, I thought I'd motivate a discussion about the topic here, first, rather than just blindly charging i A few clarifications.
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  • User:IronyChef
    ...k (gotta love the wiki!) soit was only a minor inconvenience. The bot hit a bunch of user pages, but interestingly, did ''not'' miss this user page...
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  • 888: Heaven
    ...the game; however, some parts of some blocks have been erased, likely when a line had been deleted because it was full. ...comic as a straight brown bar). On top of the heavenly feeling of getting a piece that fits, the top score is also about to be smashed, as the player w
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  • 599: Apocalypse
    | titletext = I wonder if I still have time to go shoot a short film with Kevin Bacon. ...way the panels are drawn below makes a transition from this dark image to a normal comic, with the first normal panel being superimposed on the dark im
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  • User talk:IronyChef
    ...ia:Help:Watching pages|watchlists]]. On a similar note, I've just started a discussion there about spammers. -''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp == 'Bout a couple of things. ==
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  • Talk:Main Page
    ...user, I think the first page is very important. So I thought why not begin a discussion here what to have on the first page every user visits.--[[User:R ...ointing at the original place. Maybe there's a "two redirection limit", or a lower limit on top of the one(s) the wikicode already knew that it would (o
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  • 2496: Mine Captcha
    ...ch must be checked in order to proceed, although ticking the box is merely a formality, and later versions of reCAPTCHA can simply perform the tests qui ...ly things one might see while driving - e.g. "Check all squares containing a stop sign". If the user clicks enough correct squares, they are permitted t
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  • Talk:2496: Mine Captcha
    Should be mentioned that it's most probably easier to run a script that solves this puzzle that to explain minesweeper to the majority ...eat exercise and helps to build a guaranteed-solvable game (which, IMO, is a good thing), but it won't usually start with image recognition. I'm not sur
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  • Talk:632: Suspicion
    "I'm more than a spambot! Our love was real!" might suggest that the spambot has actually mo I would be happy to see a reference to Philip K. Dick's Voigt-Kampff from his book 'Do Androids Dream
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  • 754: Dependencies
    ...e into an executable program. A section of code is said to be dependent on a second segment of code if the second segment is required for the first segm ...dependency, as you must complete this course before you can enroll in it, a phenomenon called {{w|Catch-22 (logic)|Catch-22}}.
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  • User talk:Waldir
    ...ia:Help:Watching pages|watchlists]]. On a similar note, I've just started a discussion there about spammers. -''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp ...t and if statements it can quickly break the code. I'll try to clean it up a bit though. [[User:TheHYPO|TheHYPO]] ([[User talk:TheHYPO|talk]]) 15:59, 7
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  • Stick figure
    [[File:white hat.png|thumb|200px|[[White Hat]] is an example of a stick figure character]] ...simplified into single line segments. The majority of [[xkcd]] is drawn in a stick-figure style.
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  • Talk:169: Words that End in GRY
    ...o the phrase is hidden among other words that, when taken as a whole, have a seeming continuity. This is why Black Hat cuts off Cueball's hand. Because :::: I think a better way to say it is:
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  • Template talk:wat
    ...start creating a lingo/insider jargon just yet. This template should have a clearer name! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 04:02, 4
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  • User:Philosopher
    ...question about the interface or are wondering how anything works, leave me a note on [[User talk:Philosopher|my talk page]]! I don't really edit here, ...ikimedia Commons]] (as [[commons:User:Philosopher]]). If you need help in a hurry, you should ask me there.
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  • User talk:Philosopher
    Good to see you, leave me a message! --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philo ...ploading lots of pages without wider consent. Maybe you could even include a link to that section in [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]? --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]
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  • explain xkcd talk:Community portal
    ...ngs to be done with the software that isn't immediately apparent. Perhaps a link to the [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Tutorial]] as well. --''[[User:Philosoph I'm planning to import all comics automatically. Please have a look at [[User talk:Jeff#Automatic Import]], I need more feedback. --[[User
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  • 1089: Internal Monologue
    [[Cueball]] attempts social interaction at what looks like a party owing to the fact that several people have drinks in their hands. Hi The title text is a continuation of the internal monologue.
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  • explain xkcd:Community portal
    Here are a few tools to start you out: ...edia's Editing Tutorial]] is a great place to start if you've never edited a wiki before.
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  • explain xkcd:Sandbox
    which is not really a comic, even though we've categorised it so. --> ...[[Special:ContributionScores|Lots of people]] contribute to make this wiki a success. Many of the recent contributors, listed above, have [http://www.ex
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  • 2342: Exposure Notification
    ...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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  • Talk:2342: Exposure Notification
    ...id and gave notifications for potential exposures (bad news) that would be a "dark mode." I have refrained from putting this in the explanation for now ...ing a dark mode instead of what the user actually wanted. I'll add that as a possibility. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.63.203|172.69.63.203]] 15:47, 7
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  • 2343: Mathematical Symbol Fight
    ...xt = Oh no, a musician just burst in through the door confidently twirling a treble clef. ...h {{w|List of mathematical symbols|mathematical symbols}} would be good in a fight if they were made corporeal in two (or three) dimensions.
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    That zeta looks conspicuously bad. I wonder if this comic will get a cleaned-up version uploaded. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.16|108.162 I think Randall is underestimating the weapon utility of psi. There's a real-world martial arts [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_(weapon) weapon]
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  • Talk:1089: Internal Monologue
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  • 104: Find You
    ...ed one in question is a woman with whom he is in love, a family member, or a relation of some other kind, but presumably the loved one is his partner. ...ght be read to indicate that they have died and that Cueball is descending a cavern in search of the underworld where they have been taken.
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    To "instantly" send me a message, clicking +Topic and typing should work. :) ...terrible mistaken, this is not how metamaterials work. Can anybody link me a work about wavelength-shifting metamaterials?
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  • 2787: Iceberg
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  • 865: Nanobots
    ...hit the right balance with the 128 bits thing. We can fit MAC addresses in a /64 subnet, and the nanobots will only be able to devour half the planet. ...]] are in orbit while nanobots are devouring the Earth in a swarm. This is a take on the "{{w|Grey goo}}" scenario in which self-replicating nanobots de
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  • 873: FPS Mod
    | titletext = Wait, that second one is a woman? ...wait, if that bothers me, then why doesn't... man, this game is n FPS stands for {{w|First-person shooter|First Person Shooter}}, which is a type of video game (like ''{{w|Halo (series)|Halo}}'' or ''{{w|Doom}}'') in
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  • 874: Time Management
    ...ule on the wall is a direct contradiction to the initial ideas and follows a very simple plan for the day, making willpower only seem necessary for gett ...product, since it is often significantly more expensive than, say, buying a book on time management at the bookstore.
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  • 867: Herpetology
    ...related to birds (and even to mammals) than to amphibians. She states, in a patronizing way, that the study of reptiles should more properly be combine Herpetologists would rightly see this view as a threat to their territory, their budgets and even their existence.
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  • 872: Fairy Tales
    ...omplex. The most important issue to the understanding of the comic is that a matrix can be transformed through various processes. These transformations ...ector and corresponding eigenvalue to match the shoe to its owner. This is a somewhat logical mathematical connection to make as eigenvectors, unchanged
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  • 57: Wait For Me
    This comic juxtaposes a familiar exchange with a surreal outcome. [[Megan]] is returning after a short absence. [[Cueball]] reacts as if she had been gone for years, and ad
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  • 1017: Backward in Time
    ...s for the comic. It also has a lot of other percentages and dates, so take a look if you are interested. ...y some (other) constant with the value of the function. Compare how "slow" a value grows by adding even high values (1, 1001, 2001, 3001, 4001, 5001…)
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  • 1019: First Post
    ...splay them by number of votes. Everyone knows that makes it impossible for a few persistent voices to dominate the discussion.' ...seem as though the opinion was coming from the general population and not a politician or company, as an advertisement would imply. And $20/hour was (a
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  • 1090: Formal Languages
    This joke is a play on the phrase {{w|context-free grammar}}, which is a technical term used in {{w|formal languages|formal language}} theory. ...ammar!" without any context, and runs off. Because the gag is delivered in a particularly obtuse manner, the title text clears things up by having the c
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  • 739: Malamanteau
    ...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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  • 927: Standards
    ...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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  • Talk:455: Hats
    ...think it's an electrostatics joke, with black hat (who is negative), meets a person of the same charge and more mass, so he is repelled by an electromag ...Black Hat back at the last frame. There must be a film or video game with a powerful man wearing two hats or something similar. I have no idea. --[[Use
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  • Talk:801: Golden Hammer
    ...ws, though it could be something as simple as "He's wealthy enough to have a boat and most people would know who he is". -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributio :A good, brief explanation of golden hammer is found here:
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  • Talk:176: Before Sunrise
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  • Talk:1140: Calendar of Meaningful Dates
    ...know where I heard about it (maybe in some Discovery video), but there was a study that showed that winter is better for romance. It makes sense, with :That's a good question. I entered [http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=July
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  • 821: Five-Minute Comics: Part 3
    This is the third of three "five-minute comics" Randall posted during a week in November 2010. The introduction to the comic explains everything yo ...ine and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Five-minute comi
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  • 820: Five-Minute Comics: Part 2
    This is the second of three "five-minute comics" Randall posted during a week in November 2010. The introduction to the comic explains everything yo ...ine and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Five-minute comi
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  • Talk:893: 65 Years
    ...his would add to the explanation of the comic and would require us to know a great deal about the author's calculations. rather than attempt to redo the Why is this explanation incomplete? The second paragraph does a good job explaining what the 5th percentile and 95th percentile are referri
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  • 846: Dental Nerve
    ...}}." The song begins with the following lyrics, of which the title text is a parody: :Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack
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  • 1139: Rubber and Glue
    ...sult rather refers to the insulter}}. On a deeper level, it may imply that a person insulting others is an indication of their own insecurity and weakne ...nd [[Cueball]]). Black Hat takes the traditional saying and twists it into a creepy thought by saying that they are both literally glue and rubber and t
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  • Talk:1139: Rubber and Glue
    I am not a native speaker, but after some research, I found that rubber/glue refers to *It's really not wrong, it's just a clarification. [[User:Castriff|Jimmy C]] ([[User talk:Castriff|talk]]) 19:4
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  • 2878: Supernova
    | titletext = They're a little cagey about exactly where the crossover point lies relative to the l ...companion ({{w|type Ia supernova|type Ia}}). The collapsing mass leads to a violent explosion, one of the most interesting events for astronomers to ob
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  • Talk:2878: Supernova
    ...to become a red giant, puff off its outer layers, and then settle down as a compact white dwarf star" [https://www.universetoday.com/18847/life-of-the ...644: Stargazing]]! Unless of course it is too close! (Betelgeuse should be a safe distance away and seems by far the closest Super Nova candidate, as le
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  • Talk:1087: Cirith Ungol
    ...harlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spid "American author E. B. White" and "who is saved..." are separated by "about a pig named Wilbur" which references the novel.
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  • 12: Poisson
    ...y a bar graph or a scatter graph (sometimes with a line connection to show a trend, even though there is no actual value for non-integers). ...oe|Randall]] was still experimenting with character design, as Cueball has a face in the first two frames.
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  • Talk:12: Poisson
    ...graph not a Poisson Distribution. Rather it is a binomial distribution (or a Bernoulli distribution for the single flip case). [[Special:Contributions/1 ...''causes'' Cueball to vanish. In the fourth panel, Black Hat is whistling a happy tune; pleased at having removed an annoyance. --[[User:David.poole.90
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  • 18: Snapple
    ...According to the caption at the top, [[James Zetlen]] presumably once made a joke to [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] similar to the one in the comic. :Cueball: Here, take a bite of this Snapple.
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  • 2812: Solar Panel Placement
    ...is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a solar energy tip. ...south-facing orientation and pushing it to its logical extreme by assuming a panel on the sun.
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  • Talk:18: Snapple
    ...parts of this comic, it may be OK to keep him listed as Cueball. Just made a note that the other guy also looks like Cueball.--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[U ...ade up of helium, rhodium, iodine, and neon. I then had to remind him that a) rhodium is Rb, not Ro, so helium and rhodium, along with sulfur, would be
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  • 19: George Clinton
    ...d attempted to spread around an {{w|urban legend}} that George Clinton had a {{w|Bachelor of Arts}} degree in mathematics, but he found himself believin ...ematics" from the 1996 album {{w|T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M.}}. (The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership):
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  • Talk:19: George Clinton
    ...system, but in Germany a bachelor's degree in any STEM field is considered a B.Sc. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizike ...A in mathematics and electrical engineering, but I assume that's no longer a problem nowadays. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.130.180|199.27.130.180]] 0
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  • 21: Kepler
    ...er than in the purely mathematical sense. It is also very monotonous, like a planet's set orbit, but Kepler doesn't mind this. The comic could also be seen as a subtle reference to the Kepler space telescope that was searching for exopl
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  • Talk:21: Kepler
    ...reference to the Kepler telescope being pointed in the same direction for a long time, but I don't really know enough to be sure about that [[Special:C ...he interesting part of this comic, I have listed him as Cueball. Just made a note that the other guy also looks like Cueball.--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[U
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  • 56: The Cure
    | titletext = My first try at drawing a real face in years. In the title text, Randall notes that he has not tried to draw a real face in years, as he mainly draws [[stick figure]]s. In that way this
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  • Talk:56: The Cure
    ...comic to be sure. When I first read it, I thought the "real face" looked a bit...unappealing. Perhaps diseased. Now I see the caption means the oppo
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  • 69: Pillow Talk
    ...d algorithm}} is an algorithm that calculates the shortest path(s) through a weighted digraph or collection of connected nodes or vertices. The "Wexler" *The number of this comic is 69. This number is a term for mutual simultaneous oral sex, sex being the subject of the comic.
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  • 79: Iambic Pentameter
    ...(penta means five in Greek) "{{w|Iamb (foot)|iambs}}" per line. An iamb is a unit of two syllables with the stress falling on the second. The actual bre with a sort of bouncing rhythm.
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  • 74: Su Doku
    ...ng system must be inserted, with no digit being allowed to appear twice in a horizontal or vertical row or in each individual 3&times;3 grid. The number .... The joke is that the binary system has only two digits (0 and 1), and as a result binary sudoku puzzles would be trivially easy and thus pointless. Th
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  • 70: Guitar Hero
    | titletext = And then do it again in a moment now that they're out of Star Power. ...the neck representing guitar frets and a rocker bar on the body simulating a strumming motion. The game now includes other instruments such as drums and
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  • 85: Paths
    ...he has to travel this rectangle, he worries about the extra time taken as a result of following the path. There are downfalls to this plan, however. Th ...longest path (e.g. Path 3 takes 74% as long as Path 1). Each path also has a corresponding equation for in the upper-right corner representing the time
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  • 87: Velociraptors
    | titletext = You're probably thinking, 'has it been a decade?' It's been over thirteen years, buddy. ...el Crichton}}. The film depicts a billionaire who buys an island and opens a zoo/theme park for dinosaurs cloned from DNA recovered from blood found in
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  • 88: Escher Bracelet
    | titletext = The only downside is that it would be a little uncomfortable. ...of cyclist Lance Armstrong's {{w|Livestrong}} charity, which later became a popular fad for all sorts of charitable and non-charitable causes.
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  • 667: SkiFree
    ...of the time. In the game, you're a downhill skier who attempts to ski down a hill while avoiding obstacles which cause you to crash (which slows you dow If you ski too far down the hill a monster similar to one in the comic will begin to chase you; contact with t
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  • 179: e to the pi times i
    ...never been totally satisfied by the explanations for why e to the ix gives a sinusoidal wave. ...meter. Taking these two values and applying them to the value of i in such a manner makes it seem counter-intuitive that it would yield &minus;1 from ba
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  • 91: Pwned
    | titletext = I'm sure a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor ...sed (like chess): the computer displayed some textual context, you entered a command (GO <direction>, TAKE <object>, KILL <person>, LOOK AT <object>, et
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  • Talk:91: Pwned
    ...in-all this amounts to a frustrating experience of dying in a game, and so a correlation is drawn. Because they seem to be similar frustrations, in whi ...especially when you don't yet ''necessarily'' have anything approximating a separate GPU and graphics RAM... Which is much as originally said, but... ;
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  • 97: A Simple Plan
    | title = A Simple Plan ...stress of newfound independence. Many, if not all, adolescents go through a phase where the ongoing realization of becoming fully responsible for their
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  • 101: Laser Scope
    ...would generally use the former "miss." However, its use on the package for a laser scope implies the latter "miss." ...venge, which is actually a tragically sad story, not the normal fodder for a light-hearted joke.
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  • 102: Back to the Future
    ...cur is that his dad gains self-confidence in the past and becomes "less of a loser" in the present. ...Emmett L. Brown ({{w|Christopher Lloyd}}), out of a {{w|DeLorean DMC-12}} (a 1980s-era sports car).
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  • Talk:102: Back to the Future
    ...re to "make sure his parents got together and helped his dad to be less of a loser"? [[User:tesshavon|tesshavon]] ...somebody that this was going to happen. In the past. Him having access to a time machine and all. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58
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  • 103: Moral Relativity
    {{w|Moral relativism}} is a position in the philosophical field of {{w|ethics}} that holds that moral j ...sta Rap also frequently feature cars speeding on the highway. The graph is a parody on that of the {{w|Lorentz factor}}, which is the factor by which ti
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  • 105: Parallel Universe
    ...has (by some ritual, judging by the {{w|pentagram}}) summoned himself from a {{w|Multiverse|parallel universe}}. [[Hairy]] suggests that Cueball should ...rge pentagram with candles at the points. A figure is hovering above it in a wave of energy.]
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  • 2748: Radians Are Cursed
    ...ou can calculate the total angular area of the sky this way. If the sky is a sphere with radius 57.3 degrees, then its area is 4*pi*r^2=41,253 square de This comic presents a series of Math Facts, appearing to be in a sequential order.
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  • Talk:105: Parallel Universe
    A comment, and a question: * First off, I don't think the hairy character could possibly be a woman (or that it should matter anyway), otherwise it would be made clearer
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  • Talk:103: Moral Relativity
    ...ould pay a ransom to some group for a kidnapped citizen? There's probably a far better example.
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  • 106: Wright Brothers
    ...d are now exploring the other sides. They may continue in this way to form a well balanced conclusion on the proposal or continually switch sides withou ...argued, they periodically switched sides in the debate to try to encourage a more balanced conclusion.
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  • Talk:106: Wright Brothers
    The issue date is definitely not correct, because the file doesn't have a create-date. Anyone? --[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|tal This reminds me of Doctor Who: "The key to a fair compromise is not knowing which side you're on." In this case, however
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  • 108: M.C. Hammer Slide
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  • Talk:108: M.C. Hammer Slide
    ...alk:Rikthoff|talk]]) The issue date is off, because the image doesn't have a create date. Can anyone fix the date? ...it would be awkward when you are on a date and, for example, you walk into a restaurant together. People might look at you weird. [[Special:Contributi
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  • 110: Clark Gable
    | titletext = Frankly, my dear, I don't give a BITCH ASS SHIT FUCK DAMN "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is the signature catchphrase from the 1939 movie ''{{w|Gone With The
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  • Talk:110: Clark Gable
    :It's a joke ._. [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 14:21, 9 Decemb
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  • 112: Baring My Heart
    ...usually used to illustrate the overlap between various sets. For example, a Venn diagram of "even numbers" and "numbers divisible by 5" would have 2, 4 Here we have a three-set diagram that Randall has purportedly created to explain his feeli
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  • Talk:112: Baring My Heart
    ...er talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) The issue date is definitely off, as i don't have a clue about the creation date of the comic. Can anyone fix? : Vanilla Ice is not a descendant from Caucasus mountains! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Ic
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  • 117: Pong
    ...he pong paddle went on a mission to destroy Atari headquarters and, due to a mixup, found himself inside the game The Matrix Reloaded. Boy, was THAT eve ...missions against those machines that wanted to keep the humans trapped in a simulated environment.
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  • Talk:1090: Formal Languages
    a) I'm REALLY dumb (98% probability) and I simply can't find the comments on ...seems logical) or is option a) corect? In which case, can someone give me a Noddy's Guide to how to find the comments and add them, please?
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  • Talk:117: Pong
    ...The issue date of the comic is definitely wrong, as the file doesn't have a create date. Can anyone fix? ...rgetted/misnamed simile and think they're 'on trend' just because they use a (wrong) fancy word. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.225|172.69.194.225]]
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  • 118: 50 Ways
    ...= I woke up to find that I had scrawled the last line of this sleepily on a sheet of paper on my desk. I shouldn't have listened to the 70's hit marath ...an artist {{w|Paul Simon}}. Both the original and alternate lyrics provide a textual hook because the name at the end of the line is rhymed with the wor
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  • 135: Substitute
    ...a computer programmer shuts down the security systems to steal embryos for a rival company, several of the creatures, among which are the {{w|Velocirapt ...pecies of dinosaur. Unlike the movie, in which they are depicted as having a reptilian skin, both species of dinosaur in reality are theorized to have b
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  • Talk:135: Substitute
    ...off]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) The issue date is off, as i can't find a create date for the image. Can anyone fix? ...I can run 6.25s * 6m/s = 37.5m. Add on my 40m head start, and I can reach a spot 77.5m away from the raptor before he gets me. In the same time, the r
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  • 138: Pointers
    | titletext = Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar—SEGMENTATION FAULT. ...Cueball is then annoyed at [[Black Hat]] for not answering his question in a useful manner.
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  • Talk:138: Pointers
    ...ls to 0xFFFFFFFF in the 32-bit address space. Evidently, Cueball had found a way around this only it didn't quite work out. (People deeply interested in ...e (e.g. Solitaire), and Black Hat could be telling him to play the Ace. In a rather obscure way, though. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.81.225|141.10
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  • 140: Delicious
    ...e, and put the plate in the oven until the cheese is melted. As usual with a full bag of snacks, you always end up with that tiny bit left at the bottom ...ntal results. In this case, it is neither a virtuous or vicious cycle, but a ''delicious cycle'' - the pun of this joke.
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  • Talk:140: Delicious
    Also, my wife has a similar problem with cereal. She won't drink the milk after finishing the c If you melt the cheese enough, it becomes a vi'''sc'''ous cycle. [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[User talk:Alpha|talk]]) 04:41,
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  • 146: Join Myspace
    ...d radiate light from their respective tummy symbols. These combine to form a ray of love and good cheer that could bring care and joy into the target's ...l]] is trying to convince Black Hat to create an account at {{w|Myspace}}, a networking site, but Black Hat isn't interested. When Black Hat gets annoye
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  • 149: Sandwich
    ...ls like (or accidentally) deletes a vital file, they are free to do so. As a result, common advice is to not use sudo unless the command in question abs ...is fairly common for people who use or administer UNIX systems to attempt a straight up <code>% make install</code> and have it fail. They then need to
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  • User:Vaxine19
    I'm Anthony. I love xkcd. Hopefully I will be a valuable member in this community.
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  • User:Rikthoff
    Go away, or i'll replace you with a very small shell script.
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  • User talk:SteveBell
    ...this way. The more equals signs, the deeper the header (===this=== will be a subtopic of ==that==, assuming this comes after that on the page.
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  • 16: Monty Python -- Enough
    | titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of ...xpect the punchlines and jokes. This is akin to a common ironic concept of a teenager who wants to rebel against conformity by doing all the things thei
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  • Template:w
    ...kipedia.<!-- For a tag to have "at [[Wikipedia:|Wikipedia]]" without being a link to the page name, use {{Tl|wat}} - this is useful for see-also lists.- ...xkcd}}) both link to the same URL. (Wikipedia page titles never start with a lowercase character, though {{w|WP:DISPLAYTITLE|they can display with alter
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  • Template:navbox characters
    * [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]
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  • User talk:SlashMe
    ...RIPTPATH}}/index.php?title=User_talk:SlashMe&action=edit&section=new leave a message]... :::Cheers. Have a good night. I guess I'll reply on the main page, that you can pick up in th
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  • Template talk:Infobox character
    ...ely don't have time to parse out that if I make it so that an infobox with a blank image field just displays no image, it seems to break the infobox and ...ode>first_named</code> field for the characters that were only named after a few initial appearances. Thoughts? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Wa
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  • White Hat
    <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring White Hat|Comics featuring ...d by his eponymous white hat which appears to be in the shape and style of a {{w|boater}}. His appearance is identical to that of [[Black Hat]] other th
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  • xkcd
    [[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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  • 10: Pi Equals
    ...he universe] to produce things like the gravitational constant and pi have a labor union. Judging by the fact that they're calling for help, it seems th ...ce. However, the probability of finding any given string of numbers within a calculable range of digits of pi [http://www.angio.net/pi/whynotpi.html dim
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  • Talk:133: The Raven
    I must admit curiosity as to how you equated "rapping on a door" with "rape". "Rapping" as used in the poem means exactly what it say : I was about to say the same thing. A rare, uncorrected Randall error probably bears comment. [[Special:Contribut
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  • 133: The Raven
    | titletext = Yes, Eminem is wearing a sleeveless hoodie. What of it? ...first four lines of the work, in which the {{w|poetic persona}} perceives a strange knocking on his door in the middle of the night. Unlike the origina
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  • 5: Blown apart
    ...he number scattered about: a red-colored ''7'', a green-colored ''5'', and a blue-colored ''2''. ...s that cannot be divided by any number other than itself and 1. Factors of a number are numbers that can be multiplied together to produce that number (
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  • 750: Book Burning
    | titletext = Of course, since their cautionary tale was reported in a print newspaper, no one read it. ...the hardcover edition. Unfortunately for the book-burners, the burning of a Kindle proves fatal because of the toxic fumes from the burning of its plas
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  • Template:comic
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  • Talk:399: Travelling Salesman Problem
    : I'm not sure, so I created a category and page for him, let's see if that catches any others. --[[User:J ...to look respectable... Randall likely added the hats to depict folks from a bygone era, (one of whom has caught up with the trend.) -- [[User:IronyChef
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  • 131: Fans
    | titletext = It's not going to break the fan, bouncing a rubber ball off the wall isn't going to dent it, and the roof can hold me j ...s its head, locking the mechanism that rotates it. As it attempts to turn, a release stub on the motor clicks to alleviate pressure and prevent damage t
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  • User:Suspender guy
    Whoa! I'm a user now! Whoop-dee-doo. At least my ip address isn't public anymore.
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  • 652: More Accurate
    | titletext = We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies ...rah Connor}}. As could be expected from a movie, the antagonistic robot is a human-like android.
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  • 23: T-shirts
    ...ginal caption</span>]: I saw the "problem" t-shirt (upper right) on campus a few days ago and suddenly felt so sad. ...ple" (suggesting that the wearer thinks everyone else is dumb, while being a parody of the phrase "I see dead people" from the movie ''{{w|The Sixth Sen
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  • 97
    #REDIRECT [[97: A Simple Plan]]
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  • 1: Barrel - Part 1
    ...nd-up-in-floating-barrels/ more realistic description] of the behaviour of a barrel in the water. ...during the first several dozen strips. The series features [[Barrel Boy]], a character that is different from what would quickly become the xkcd [[stick
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  • 150: Grownups
    | titletext = I've looked into this, and I can't figure out a way to do it cheaply. And I guess it wouldn't be sanitary. ...hat her adulthood means. Free from constraints, she goes ahead and creates a {{w|ball pit}} in her apartment of colored plastic balls. [[Cueball]] admir
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    I have a (partial?) solution to the urine problem. Don't let any toddlers and child
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  • James Zetlen
    <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring James Zetlen|Comics featur ...the computer writer I made for him], and [http://blog.xkcd.com/2015/09/22/a-thing-explainer-word-checker/ here is something he wrote to tell his reader
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  • 107: Snakes on a Plane! 2
    | title = Snakes on a Plane! 2 ...isingly) snakes, on a plane, attacking the passengers. This comic proposes a sequel, taking the idea to the next level, making things infinitely worse:
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  • 107
    #REDIRECT [[107: Snakes on a Plane! 2]]
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  • 156: Commented
    ...rter {{w|%46uck#Modern_usage|four letter word}} usually combined with such a gesture. ...forming a double slash and thereby ignoring both him and his question for a favor, by commenting him out programming style, even to the point where Bla
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  • 58: Why Do You Love Me?
    ...e a choice," a seemingly very sentimental, romantic answer. However, after a {{w|Beat_(filmmaking)|beat panel}}, she effectively kills the romance of th ...:Category:Opening dialogue by Scott|Opening dialogue by Scott]]'', forming a sort of informal mini-series inspired by him. They are:
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  • Category:Comics by weekday
    *Note that xkcd usually only posts a new comic Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. **'''Click''' to expand for a more detailed explanation:
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  • Talk:156: Commented
    :No, it's a single line that's wrapped. The double slash works fine in that circumstanc ...he given comic-frame), it was not spoken (like the line may be typed) with a verbal linefeed-equivalent, and so the in-universe markup is applicable to
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  • MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js
    ...sed simple Category manager. Allows adding/removing/changing categories on a page view. // to have a marker at the front, use prefix and set this to the empty string.
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  • Talk:Megan
    ...count for the character? Might be good to dig through the archives to find a more coherent introduction for the character. --[[User:SuperAce99|SuperAce9
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  • 15: Just Alerting You
    ...t she's cool. I mean, she has a dinosaur!<br>I'm gonna update this MWF for a while and see how that works. In this comic, a man is riding a {{w|Brontosaurus}} (or what would [[:Category:Apatosaurus|later be referred
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  • Category:Comics featuring major characters
    <noinclude>:''For a list of characters, see [[:Category:Major characters|Major characters]].''<
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  • 159: Boombox
    | titletext = And she's gonna feel like a jerk when she realizes it was actually Under Pressure. ...Christian, professes his love for Roxane by arranging to use the words of a fellow soldier, Cyrano, who secretly also loves Roxane.
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  • Talk:159: Boombox
    ...ie Say Anything, where John Cusack plays Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" on a boombox outside the house of the girl he likes. ...g. [[716: Time Machine]] and [[782: Desecration]]) that Rob and Megan have a close and possibly romantic relationship. [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki
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  • 161: Accident
    ...in a similar situation. Or, as in this case, one might get used to pushing a giant ball around trying to collect smaller objects, and try doing so with In the game {{w|Katamari Damacy}}, the player has to grow a large ball of clutter by rolling the ball over smaller objects in the playf
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  • User:SlashBot
    This is a bot account created by [[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]].
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  • Talk:161: Accident
    :I have never played guitar hero either, but I believe the game shows a series of objects approaching you to represent the notes. The point is then :Is there a guitar hero player reading this who could make a final edit?--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.8|108.162.242.8]] 00:45, 1
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  • 162: Angular Momentum
    ...oving object, including the Earth, possesses {{w|momentum}}. The Earth has a very high momentum due to its large mass and high speed as it orbits the Su ...e comic, giving a final value of 10<sup>-35</sup>s per turn, or 1/10000 of a quectosecond. This comic is referenced at the end of the ''[[what if? (blog
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  • Talk:162: Angular Momentum
    The issue date is not given, as i don't have a clue about it. Could someone fix this? [[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User t That actually is a neat physics puzzle, which has probably (i.e. certainly) been addressed som
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  • 163: Donald Knuth
    {{w|Donald Knuth}} is a computer science Professor Emeritus at {{w|Stanford University}} who is fam ...in his choice of where to start his arrays. This is a valid complaint, as a lack of such consistency can make coding errors both more likely and more d
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  • 1111: Premiere
    ...are a lot of members of the film industry. The event is a movie premiere, a common place for reporters to interview celebrities, actors, and other peop ...reby a long red carpet is laid out leading to the entrance of a theater as a symbol of elegance. {{w|Movie stars}} are said to "walk the red carpet" whe
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  • User talk:Cyanfish
    ...omic(s)]], the title and the content of [[Beret Guy]]) uses "Beret Guy" as a proper noun (his name), without "the". With that in mind, I believe it's gr ...ar constructs (outside the xkcd realm, I mean) as proper nouns? I'm having a hard time seeing that construction as gramatically correct. --[[User:Waldir
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  • explain xkcd:Community portal/All
    <i>This is a place for general chit-chat about virtually anything that doesn't fit anywh
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  • explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals
    ...with a short message like "no one has explained this yet, want to give it a shot?" would make the wiki easier to browse through and will get more strip ...s occasionally. If we could get every joe blow that comes in and vomits up a poorly done explanation to create the redirects I wouldn't be quite as anno
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  • List of all comics (501-1000)
    This is a list of comics from 501 to 1000. {{comicsrow|551|2009-03-04|Etch-a-Sketch}}
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