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| title = Parody Week: A Softer World
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...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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| titletext = That eggplant is in something of a flaccid state.
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...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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[[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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...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".
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...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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...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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...]] 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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...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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...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
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...er questions. You're hired!' 'Oh, sorry! I'm no longer interested. There's a bunch of future I gotta go check out!'
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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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This comic was posted right after the '''weekend''', on a Monday, so it was on time to emphasize that ''we all hate Mondays''.
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...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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...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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...his chart would have to be nested in itself—with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart—at least three levels deep.
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...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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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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...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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...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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...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
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...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 {{
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| titletext = FYI: I'll be releasing a wolf into a randomly-chosen front yard sometime in the next 30 years. Now your fear is
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...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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...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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...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
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...aining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than
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...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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A {{w|Bulletin Board System}}, or BBS, is an online service based on microcom
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...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
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...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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This comic shows a graph with three parts.
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...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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...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
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In this strip, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] presents a mathematical argument against the idea of making fun of people for their ig
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| titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'.
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...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 {{
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...g with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'
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...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
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