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  • ...y virtually every science-for-kids-or-fun TV show that go in for that kind of thing...) [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 03:46, 19 Jun ...Cueball was expecting his friend's dad to appear out of nowhere instead of the Diet Coke + Mentos eruption. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.45|108.162
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  • ...Stygimoloch spinifer' (meaning 'horned dragon from the river of death') in the semifinals. ...rection that {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}} has taken with nicknaming the versions of their {{w|OS X}} operating system. They started at v10.0 "Cheetah", and hav
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  • | titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'. ...demic)|Major}} refers to the US version of an academic major. The point of the song is that it makes no sense to pick any major since they are all terribl
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  • ...on|its discussion section]]. Other issues probably belong at the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]].}} ...all>Re-signed here - b/c I broke the comment in two when I added the "List of comics" header. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User tal
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  • <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe|Comics featuring Ra ...ies I do the same thing, but the other way around.|Randall Munroe|[https://xkcd.com/about Source]}}
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  • ...your proposal has already been submitted. </i>{{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Proposals|Text=<small>(+post)</small>}} At the moment, browsing through the explanations using the previous and next buttons is interrupted whenever there's an explanation mi
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  • {{notice2|Please don't add new topics here. Go [[explain xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests|here]] instead.}} ...anything on the <s>blog</s> wiki as spam or notify admins of the existence of it? (Most stuff can be simply removed.) What about user pages? --[[User:Jef
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  • Hi, just to let you know that I move the thread you started to [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]. Cheers, --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User ''For discussion of the Ruby Import assistant. Please create subsections for each item.''
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  • ...to protected pages, more user rights etc.</i> {{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Admin requests|Text=<small>(+post)</small>}} '''List of Admins:'''<br/>
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  • ...anything that doesn't fit anywhere else. </i>{{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Miscellaneous|Text=<small>(+post)</small>}} == The Community Portal's design ==
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  • == XKCD Store link == ...Mr Munroe money and force him back to his day job instead of drawing more XKCD :-) --[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 20:23, 2 August
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  • ...system actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your *To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.
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  • ==Thanks for helping roll back the vandalism== ...sed vandalism. I'm hoping this is just a spike owing to the popularity of the comic, but I'm with you; if it doesn't die down, something more drastic is
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A40%20pm-,Strip%20series,-One% ...ch to Kurt Halsey to chaotic and sappy.<br>The whole series is [http://www.xkcd.com/comic/comic.html here].
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  • | titletext = We have met the enemy and he is us. ...ve it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well.
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  • ...sources and downloads] page where a list of sources and the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png full image] can be downloaded ...almost forgotten how enjoyable it can be.|[[Randall Munroe]]|[https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/11/24/money-chart/ Source]}}
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  • ...To Statement Considered Harmful"] in particular contributed to the decline of ''goto.'' ...]. Velociraptor attacks are a running joke (and fear) often expressed in [[xkcd]].
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  • ...picted in the film have some discrepancies with the size and appearance of the velociraptors. For example, scientists have since discovered that velocirap ...m in the modern world, are a subject of (or appear in) several strips of [[xkcd]].
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  • ...To encourage people to be on their toes, I'm not going to say what book or author. ...isinformation but make said misinformation seem reliable through a process of "circular reporting".
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  • ...ext = This digital music thing will probably reach its endgame sometime in the next decade or so. These are very exciting times. ...he is part of this comic series, and thus also this comic, as he narrates the epilogue.
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  • ...that reversing the order of the two vectors also reverses the direction of the cross product. ...and rule that might be useful to some physics students doing exercises out of their textbooks. However, it would give incorrect results with books in lan
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  • ...FoxTrot, an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists, of which there are an oddly large number. ...nistrator/super user. This forces Randall to agree. This is a reference to the very popular comic [[149: Sandwich]], which has now become a geek culture c
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  • ...(in this case through "thinking logically"), however the player receiving the advise (a clearly more knowledgeable and experienced player) immediately re ...every position, although they do come up with great moves through the use of complex algorithms.
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  • ...f a game of truth or dare. This is Bloody Mary's first appearance in xkcd, the second being [[2364: Parity Conservation]]. ...or towards each other. It's not clear if they simply collide, or pass into the opposing mirror. Megan may be attempting an experiment either in particle p
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  • ...- specifically that each cell is in a "box". In this case, the cadence of the text doesn't seem to be poetic, but in some comics it could be. --[[User:Bp ...o Cordelia, where one would expect "the enemy" or similar. And this before the shots are fired. Someone needs to read a bit more carefully. Anonymous 00:1
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  • | titletext = The best thing about Strunk/White fanfiction is that it's virtually guaranteed ...o the style guide, an instance of {{w|meta humor}}, a recurring theme in ''xkcd''.
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  • ...at were made to the tagline, along with a link to the earliest web archive of it available: ...raw things. There's a new one every M/W/F. There's an RSS feed (taken from the [http://www.livejournal.com/users/xkcd_drawings/info drawings journal]) [ht
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  • | titletext = The fact that things like the npm left-pad incident are so rare is oddly reassuring. ...hive accepts submissions of any type of information, including new backups of web pages and newly-made public domain content.
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  • ...at someone armed with this particular statistical knowledge would not take the normal precautions and therefore leave themselves far more vulnerable. ...owing a certain event can't or didn't happen and not having any data about the event.
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  • ...clichés like "candle-lit dinners" and may, in fact, simply indicate that the person enjoys romantic gestures and activities in general. It is likely tha In this comic, [[Randall]] lists "long walks on the beach" as an interest on a dating profile. However, while a romantic walk m
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  • I disagree with the original author of the article, I don't think Garfield is poorly written. However, to avoid any gr ...corporate culture has made Dilbert a hit, and we ourselves are discussing XKCD here. Watterson would be smiling right now. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title=
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  • ...ve appeared as "Star Trek: Into Darkness." They eventually decided against the colon, and I wonder if this comic is poking fun at that debate.[[Special:Co The Associated Press style manual says to capitalize all prepositions that are
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  • The wings are gonna have to be waay bigger if that plane is gonna fly. '''[[Use ...ch, a noted aviation author who published a series of flying books called "The Ferret Chronicles" in 2002-2003? --[[Special:Contributions/144.92.241.6|144
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  • ..., and finally retract, reforming the frame again, but pulling him apart in the process, in a rather macabre comic. ...the frame becoming a character, the main protagonist, and sole survivor of the strip.
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  • | titletext = Guest comic by Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. When I was stressed out, Zach gave me a *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|826|original comic}}.
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  • ...f the equation is rotating [a1, a2] by 90°. Simplifying the trigonometry, the 90° clockwise rotation matrix is [[0, 1], [-1, 0]], so multiplying this by ...uthor performed the rotation transformation on the notation rather than on the vector it represents.
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  • What is the root of love? What is the angle of love?
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  • Added an explanation for the title text, but it's probably too wordy and not very clear. Anyone have any Umm... "The pun lies in the fact that a pickup basketball player becomes skilled at basketball."
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  • ...s thought out well and proves helpful to others, we will reward the author of such a great idea with riches beyond their wildest dreams (such as through ...and they had access to free stuff. There are those on-line who think that the internet should offer-up everything for free but this attitude forgets that
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  • Well, imho the reference to the master in the mountain hideaway is clearly a reference to Kill Bill, but I am not skilled :Next time, don't be so shy! Just do the best you can and someone else can help correct it. [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[
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  • ...starts out with a 1 second delay, then doubles to two, then to four, etc. the time it takes to wait is 2^n. Six screw ups cost you a minute, twenty erro : That's not how brute force attacks work. They steal the hashes of the passwords and then brute force them locally. [[Special:Contributions/198.41
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  • ...d social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take. ...rge/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on xkcd.
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  • ...ow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted. The comic gives examples of four non-functional {{w|sorting algorithm}}s written in {{w|Pseudocode|pseu
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  • I loved the "runs in O(n log n)" part. [[Special:Contributions/76.106.251.87|76.106.251 ...rtability. It's a sad state where I've actually more or less come across 3 of these. [[Special:Contributions/203.126.136.142|203.126.136.142]] 00:56, 14
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  • ...frey Rowland of Overcompensating/Wigu. Jeffrey is famous as the picture on the Wikipedia article on 'Necrosis'. ...is clear from the [http://xkcd.com/825/info.0.json official transcript] on xkcd.
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  • ...tand to reason that Randall could have intended both the in-place joke and the external irony.[[User:Tryc|Tryc]] ([[User talk:Tryc|talk]]) 14:44, 19 June ...whatever the true figure is) of Americans who believe in God do so only to the extent that they will answer 'Yes' to a survey question asking if they beli
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  • ...ere a "citation needed" when stating that beaks are not a typical property of human children! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.220|162.158.34.220]] 10: : Did you click on the link in the citation needed? It's a joke [[User:Danish|Danish]] ([[User talk:Danish|tal
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  • ...Guys: while I was writing this, I accidentally swallowed a table-size slab of drywall. I know! Wacky. ...ay), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, and it comprises the following five {{w|parodies}}:
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  • [[Cueball]] enters, excited that he's managed to buy every one of author {{w|Terry Pratchett}}'s {{w|Discworld}} books for his {{w|Amazon Kindle|Kin ...xplainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=DRM&go=Go&title=Special%3ASearch many xkcd comics].)
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  • ...h to see that particular movie, but I am cautiously optimistic about Where The Wild Things Are. ...nally criticized) for his style of film adaptation. Cueball is unsure that the IP would be a good fit for a summer blockbuster, but is dismissed.
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