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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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...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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<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe|Comics feat
...e time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat par
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...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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...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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[[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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This is a list of comics from 1 to 500.
{{comicsrow|486|2008-10-08|I am Not a Ninja}}
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...x|right|thumb|Logo by [[User:Alek2407]], made transparent and resized by [[User:Omega]].]]
Here is a tour of various entry points to the site:
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...live or where they came from determines which comic they actually see. As a result, there are actually multiple comics that went up on April Fools' Day
...he comic, refers to the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok)
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...a string is "s", e.g. "s/old/new/g" replaces any occurrence of "old" with "new". The title therefore contains the command to change "keyboard" into "leopa
...And Chair" or {{w|PEBKAC}}, which means that the problem is caused by the user, not by any failure of the computer. However, due to the substitution, it i
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...]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the new site was launched. This comic was published on the same day across both sit
...ic is both funny (as it is unexpected) and not funny (as the last line was a non sequitur and therefore there is no climax) at the same time, thus provi
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...text = The typical internet user (who wants to share) has an IQ of 147 and a 9-inch penis. Better than the reverse, I guess
...gle to show how many hits (or web pages) are returned as relevant based on a given search replacing <X> by different numbers.
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...r situation from a previous xkcd strip. In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial.
Most of the panels are references to previous xkcd strips, but a few are not.
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| titletext = The top computer champion at Seven Minutes in Heaven is a Honda-built Realdoll, but to date it has been unable to outperform the huma
...ars in parenthesis in the comic are the year that the game was mastered by a computer):
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...holding a {{w|smartphone}}, tells [[White Hat]] that everyone now carries a computer in their pocket, and refers to how it is always on-line (connected
...{w|cryogenics}}''' (hence the title) far enough for humans to survive such a deep freeze, and then she climbs into her homemade chamber and plans to ski
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| titletext = I just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wil
...y spread misinformation but make said misinformation seem reliable through a process of "circular reporting".
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The comic shows - in human language - part of the conversations that a browser and web server do in order to get the right page. The protocol they
...going to be in portrait orientation, so restyling it accordingly) is often a continuing problem. As are the continual intrusive popovers 'suggesting' th
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| title = Linux User at Best Buy
...erating systems and software. As such, the subtext is that somebody buying a complete pre-packaged home computer system at Best Buy wouldn't know or car
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...o read (and potentially 'grep' for incriminating terms) and to show off in a creative way using in-group jargon. The comic is narrated by [[Cueball]] as
...ve days (Monday to Friday) and not over the usual schedule of three comics a week. These are all the comics in [[:Category:1337|1337 series]]:
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...tudy was overseen by Dvorak himself). And the 'slow typists down' thing is a myth. Also EMACS RULES VI DROOLS WOOOOOOO!
...e QWERTY layout, and were unwilling to take the time and effort to learn a new one.
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| titletext = I hear in some places, you need to fill one form of ID to buy a gun, but two to pay for it by check. It's interesting to see who has what i
...get right, since launching the missile at the wrong target could result in a disastrous unintended loss of life or property damage.
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...eference to the very popular comic [[149: Sandwich]], which has now become a geek culture catch-phrase.
It is a recurring theme in ''FoxTrot'' for Jason to offer to make substitute comics
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...ning in it all at once. [[Cueball]] comments about this while hanging from a balloon, which brings to mind the expanded perspective over the landscape a
...n outside that panel. The image displayed at first turns out to be part of a huge landscape, filled with big or small things, humorous details, people h
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...r software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and rich input device capability for networked computers.
...the server do not need to be on the same system; X11 frequently runs over a network connection. This adds considerably to the complexity of the mechani
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[[Cueball]] is buying some new speakers for his television, and asks [[Megan]] if they have the right cord
...s Megan protests, calling his ideas "a joke." An exasperated Cueball tells a {{w|Lightbulb joke|lightbulb joke}}, the content of which implies that the
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...e first panel, [[Megan]] describes G+ as 'not {{w|Facebook}}'. Facebook is a popular social networking site.<sup>[[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''cita
...grow tired of Facebook, its arcane policies, its cavalier attitude toward user privacy and/or its general disdain for end users, and people want to leave
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...to search for phrases and then charts the results. This one is charted as a timeline, whereas 715 was charted as line graphs.
It is a list of things predicted or announced by anyone at any time (the ones you s
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...eds upgrading, or perhaps they are between projects, or simply waiting for a go-ahead. Coders still need to make themselves available to perform emerge
{{w|Dvorak Simplified Keyboard|Dvorak}} is a keyboard layout that was proposed in 1936 as an alternative to the existing
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...ractical modern project where alternatives exist, where anything more than a {{w|%22Hello,_World!%22_program|Hello World}} could be awkward to implement
...eeds to be completely rewritten if one wants to port it to a computer with a different architecture.
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| titletext = This really is a true story, and she doesn't know I put it in my comic because her wifi hasn
...ted, installed, and configured by users, it tends to either attract or, in a few cases, create individuals who take disproportionate pleasure in, and de
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...stagram.com/about/legal/terms/ terms of use], allowing the network to sell user-uploaded images, without profit to the content generators. This infuriated
...lls his Cueball-like friend about his problem with Chad, who just sent him a note telling him that he no longer wants to store all this stuff that Cueba
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...er vehicles, but the reduced overhead is worth it. There was one week when a wheel of cheese got dangerously close to the first page, though.
...have actually reinvented the wheel at one point in time - a {{w|tire}} is a modern improvement to the wheel, which reduces bumps and shocks that people
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| title = New Car
| titletext = Somewhere out there is a company that has actually figured out how to enlarge penises, and it's help
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...blem of dissuading {{w|Spamming|spammers}} from joining and participating. A common solution to this problem is the use of various systems to prevent au
This captcha and spamming prevention also has a downside, in that the time it takes to "prove you're human" is sometimes so
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...~', 'xX_StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNess_Xx', and 'Star Trek lnto Darkness' (that's a lowercase 'L').
...nating between making and reverting the change, and usually accompanied by a more-or-less heated debate on the talk page.
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...l cryptographic keys generated by the system. The problem was created when a Debian developer removed one line of code that was crucial, even though it
...ing|blacklists}}, thereby preventing their use and forcing users to create new keys. [[Randall]] claims that he was affected by that when uploading this c
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| titletext = The G1, especially with the new Android upgrade, is way better than I originally thought.
...ch was a location-aware feature of Google Maps that allowed a mobile phone user to allow certain people to view their current location. The reason it is wo
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...the addresses, using them as a modern tip jar for high-tech users. Here's a list of all the addresses mentioned in this article that have appeared in t
...added to [https://xkcd.com/bitcoin xkcd.com/bitcoin], which today returns a 404 error. The first web archive of the page is dated [https://web.archive.
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...e actually caused by viruses are never suspected by people to be caused by a virus.
...(too slow to start up, too much clutter on screen, etc.), or user error. A virus can potentially cause those symptoms, but it's much more common for t
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...ity of YouTube comments was novel. Since then, this observation has become a widely accepted truism about the Internet. In this case, the {{rw|Moon_land
...n the grounds that he had provoked Aldrin to the point where the punch was a justified response.
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...accounts on new websites somewhat indiscriminately. Thus, one could create a simple Web service to collect users' usernames, email addresses, and passwo
In panel 7, the comic suddenly develops a philosophical and ethical bent. Black Hat reveals that he has already carri
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...etext = Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sci
...ve of blogs. This comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by a {{w|fractal}} of blogs.
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...-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
A [http://xkcd.com/802_large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by
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| titletext = StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted.
...e given up on writing the sorted-merge part of the sort, which is why it's a ''{{Wiktionary|half-hearted}}'' merge sort, but instead concatenates the ha
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...maller numbers he has to SAVE lives. The birthrate channel is even more of a mixed bag.
...route to the target, automatically using another route if a connection or a transmitting host fails.
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...br><br><span style="color:grey">Different title text:</span> The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via this link. Curr
...ented a competition for students to see who could come closest to breaking a {{w|Skein (hash function)|Skein hash}} but also an aid appeal for the Wikim
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{{w|Adblock}} is a browser extension which prevents advertisements from being displayed. Presu
...in fact, sites that use this branding in their advertisements and/or their user interface which is likely what inspired [[Randall]] to write this comic. Cu
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This comic was probably a reaction to the installation service {{w|Ninite}} [http://www.reddit.com/r/
...of software changes (and changes in the way Adobe allows users to download new software) could result in confused users. In this case, the comic is saying
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...to River, "adequate" vacuuming systems drain the human body at about half a liter per second.
...ig certain measurements are (e.g., how long an inch or a foot is, how much a pound weighs). This comic points out that people who were brought up using
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| title = A New CAPTCHA Approach
| image = a new captcha approach.png
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