| titletext = I liked the idea, suggested by h00k on bash.org, of a Twitter bot that messages promine
...e user's Twitter handle (15 characters max). Randall is poking fun at both the stereotypical Senator and at teenagers supporting [[Ron Paul]].
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...he cosmic background radiation, you can pick up lingering echoes of 'I Got You Babe'.
...nd the groundhog can see its own shadow, the winter is assumed to continue for six more weeks.
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| titletext = Although the Markov chain-style text model is still rudimentary; it recently gave me "Ma
...t believes is the most likely words you would use in a sentence containing the previous word(s).
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...one knows that makes it impossible for a few persistent voices to dominate the discussion.'
...hronological order. This puts the oldest comments at the top and newest at the bottom.
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...k figure]]s. New comics are posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and are accompanied by a [[Title text|title text]], serving as Randall's commentary
...these comics. In 2012, Randall revived the blue grid as a background image for ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]''.
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...ball. However, the word he says, ''Commented!'', does not seem to fit with the shorter {{w|%46uck#Modern_usage|four letter word}} usually combined with su
...t slashes, Cueball, and anything he says in the color for ignored parts of the program (or real world in this case).
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...or having some of the most ridiculous, hateful, mean-spirited, nonsensical comments of any mainstream website (a reputation touched upon earlier in [[202: YouT
...s read aloud to them, they will realize the stupidity of it and not submit the comment. YouTube later made this a real feature, although it has since been
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| titletext = Thank you for making me feel less alone.
...cking the image at xkcd.com which can as always be accessed by clicking on the comic number above. It can also be found here: [[Media:1000 comics.png|1000
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...xt = Or if you replace your car, we'll be happy to set it on fire again so you can take another crack at getting that shot.
...hat the car is on fire, as they suggest she uses the insurance money (from the car) to buy this better camera.
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| titletext = We have met the enemy and he is us.
{{w|Stephenie Meyer}} is the author of the {{w|Twilight (novel series)|Twilight novels}}, a series of {{w|vampire}} no
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| title = xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel
| titletext = I love the title-text!
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...or a good movie are tornados and scientists. Actually, that's all you need for anything.
...und closer to the equator, where the ground freezes in winter and thaws in the spring.
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| titletext = 'ARE YOU TURNED ON YET?' 'I DON'T THINK SO--ARE YOU?' 'MAYBE A LITTLE!' 'OK, FIVE MORE MINUTES.'
...edia res}}, leaving readers confused or concerned until the silly cause of the situation is revealed.
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...g 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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| titletext = Coconuts are so far down to the left they couldn't be fit on the chart. Ever spent half an hour trying to open a coconut with a rock? Fuck c
...at the bottom. The X-axis goes from "easy" on the right to "difficult" on the left.
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...tes on your reddit comments to become president of the world. Please be at the UN tomorrow at 8:00 sharp.}}
...n the book these two kids write their opinions on their world's version of the internet to gain extreme political influence. Below is a synopsis:
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1110|original comic}}.
...hanging from a balloon, which brings to mind the expanded perspective over the landscape attained by early experimenters in overland flight.
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| title = The Corliss Resolution
...er develops space travel because it's impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.
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...hts sometimes have additional signals such as arrows indicating go or stop for a specific direction such as left or right turns.
...that applies only to public transit like streetcars that run on tracks on the city streets.
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...emember to constantly bring up how cool it is that birds are dinosaurs and you'll be set.
...ne else is so geeky that they would answer like that. Cueball, dismayed at the fact that his geekery has become a defining characteristic of his and also
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...the first panel of this comic. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] is demonstrating the problem with making such statements, many of which simply come down to coin
...ecome more and more nested and complicated, and then brought by Randall to the point of absurdity by pointing out very trivial things, such as "No Democra
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...xt = This was an actual mock conversation between me and a friend at TGIF. The waitress walked up around panel 5 and was somewhat put off.
...dness of the end conversation, with both characters standing awkwardly for the last 2 panels.
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| titletext = You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback.
...ie=UTF8&ASIN=0544272994&nodeID=283155&store=books a popular Amazon review] for Randall Munroe's book, What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypoth
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...of his attempted courtship. It turns out in the fifth and last panel that the first four panels was just one large thought bubble on how Cueball fantasiz
...n to her. Therefore, Cueball's fears are unfounded and are even preventing the two from meeting and possibly forming a relationship. Megan could of course
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...seem. But I've been realizing lately that there's an easier way to handle these situations, and it involves zero internet arguments.
...f you take this feeling away, many people stop donating, which is shown on the third panel.
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...ins roughly the stored energy of a hand grenade, and if shorted it... hey! You can't arrest me if I prove your rules inconsistent!
...operties of lithium ion is not common knowledge, this instead simply makes the security team additionally suspicious why he would know that.
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| titletext = Guys? The Town is supposed to be good, and I thou--' 'PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING DECLA
...bolic tones, vastly exaggerating and misinterpreting his actual intent. In the final panel, Hawking is shown hanging his head in sadness since all he want
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| titletext = Of course, the assert doesn't work.
...f how {{w|String literal|string literals}} are treated by the interpreter, the assertion will be true.
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| titletext = And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co--
...sulted in an arms race of sorts between spammers and communities, in which the spammers try to bypass increasingly difficult spam-prevention methods.
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| titletext = The misguided search for a perpetual motion machine has run substantially longer than any attempted
...would contradict the laws of thermodynamics, so perpetual motion machines are known to be impossible.
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| titletext = <nowiki>RFC 1149.5</nowiki> specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.
...rent, i.e., random, results). In other words, the results over time would not be random at all, but completely predictable and deterministic.
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...' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphic design.
...e to describe the collective of blogs. This comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by a {{w|fractal}} of blogs.
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...d social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
...cd.com/802_large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on xkcd.
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This comic deals with two linked themes, which both come under the umbrella of {{w|Existentialism|existentialism}}, a branch of philosophy.
...sts that, rather than continuously worrying, we should enjoy the thrill of the unknown.
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...ge, for better or for worse. Technology's going to be so cool. All in all, the future will be okay! Except climate; we fucked that one up.
...ts a character who 'misinterprets' this, to say that those with a lower IQ are believed to be more likely to reproduce thus more readily pass on their gen
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...into account the energy imparted by orbital motion (or gravity assists or the Oberth effect), all of which can make it easier to reach outer planets.
* The xkcd page links to [http://xkcd.com/681_large/ a much larger version].
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| titletext = Hurricane forums are full of excited comments about central pressure and wind speed and comparisons to Camille and 1931 a
...ated by the spectacle, most people also feel a sense of shame and guilt at the same time, unsure of whether it is morally wrong to be entertained by other
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...andall. Randall is therefore annoyed with the common terms "the West" and "the East" referring to locations east and west of him respectively.
...ties to make a {{w|sextant}} work as a tool to calculate accurate position for map making.
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...o the details as you wake up. With TCMP you can bring back any information you want.
...age from inside his dream, but his friends, [[Megan]] and another Cueball, are disappointed when that first message is a {{w|troll (Internet)|trollish}} "
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...it should be set at 25,000 mph, which would likely have prevented 1,000 of the intersection's 3,000 serious accidents last month.'
...opinionated diatribe compounding all the many sore-points that have turned the relationship sour, or at least have been perceived as such.
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...xt = Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: this is impossible)
...urth lines. Almost anyone can instantly recognize a limerick after hearing the first line.
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...til unjinxed by some specific action (usually somebody saying their name). For a similar children’s game, see [[392: Making Rules]].
...rately modified into evil. However, Orcs do bear a startling similarity to the worst Mongol stereotypes.)
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...wn, which is a major looming problem for web infrastructure and definitely not a thing I just made up.
...it will still be sitting there, gathering friends' statuses, opinions and comments.
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...inently displayed at the top, while the newest comments would be buried at the bottom.
...ents that are not coming. Cueball might actually have mixed feelings about the practice slowly dying out. However, someone offscreen is worried he will ji
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...ortantly, it allows members of the development team to find key changes in the history, later. Git has been discussed in [[1597: Git]] as well.
...l standpoint (e.g. "fix the thing that's making the site not work") or for the benefit of others who want to know which commits they should be paying atte
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...'My parents are at their house; you visited last--' 'No, no, explain like you're five.'
...ear-old child would be able to understand. Megan sarcastically (or perhaps not) treats Cueball as if he is an actual 5-year-old without his parents, expre
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...the likelihood of {{w|extraterrestial life}} and the fact that no evidence for it has thus far been found.
...e stars - homing in on radio signals and destroying young civilizations in the cradle...
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...cript of the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png huge version] of the comic [[980: Money]].
...as well. If there is a title, it will be written in '''bold''' letters in the transcript.
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| title = People are Stupid
...han most people. It is absurd to denounce the majority of mankind as below the average of mankind."
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| titletext = I mean, it's not like we could just demand to see the code that's governing our lives. What right do we have to poke around in Fa
...news feed and recording the users' comments to see if the change affected the positivity or negativity of their posts. Further experiments have since bee
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