...text = Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.
...bolitionist ideals. He has since been honored with the use of his image on the $100 bill.
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I figured it was a poem. Turns out it is, of a sort.
: The original poem is "Boys go to Jupiter, to get more stupider, girls go to col
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...of escalators in popular culture, including the phenomenon of "running up the down". That is all ;) [[Special:Contributions/71.154.215.156|71.154.215.156
:Haha! I suppose someone who spends all his time indoors on the internet would understand NSFW but not an escalator. Maybe that's who I was
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...Comics' author Ryan North is closer in height to certain dinosaurs than to the average human.
...s, birds along with crocodiles are indeed the remaining representatives of the {{w|Archosaur|archosaur clade}}. This premise appeared also in comic [[867:
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...es would therefore be largely guesswork. The comic features the well-known xkcd characters getting involved in a strange fight with cyborgs and raptors on
...s Final Message to His Creation, written in letters of fire on the side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains.
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Aaaand this is up, This is one of my favorite comics of xkcd. [[User:StuckInReality|StuckInReality]] ([[User talk:StuckInReality|talk]])
I think that there is a bit of "the Cueball doth protest too much" in here. He's fighting Megan's explanations
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| title = <span style="color:blue">House</span> of Pancakes
...the colouring of every instance of the word "house" in blue, as is done on the menu. It includes footnotes within footnotes like Randall did here.
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...ter which he reminds the blogger to watch the next season of ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles series''.
...them for attempting to argue with her. In this way, Cueball is assured of the last word in this argument, which makes for a most satisfying vent.
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...kids will read this someday. DEAR FUTURE KIDS: how did you get internet in the cellar?
...isn't a good idea. Her behavior could also indicate that Megan is treating the child as an object rather than a human being.
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...ay), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, and it comprises the following five {{w|parodies}}:
{{w|Married_to_the_Sea#NatalieDee|Natalie Dee}} is the author of the daily comics [http://nataliedee.com/ Natalie Dee]. This webcomic comprises
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..., whether directly or through an independent organized vote, in the naming of planetary satellites, newly discovered planets, and their host stars."
...have been even worse if presented in its unfiltered form (as seen below in the table).
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...finally destroyed with a nuclear weapon carrying the destructive energy of the Hiroshima bomb.
...article [http://blog.xkcd.com/2013/05/15/dictionary-of-numbers/ Dictionary of Numbers] where [[Randall]] says that he doesn't "like large numbers without
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| titletext = If the celestial sphere were mapped to the Earth's surface, astronomy would get a LOT easier; you'd just need a magnif
...ts' scales are compared to actual objects on earth. Each size given is for the object at its closest approach to earth.
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I think the article should explain the 'typewriter story' mentioned in the title text. [[User:Ollieollieoxenfree|Ollieollieoxenfree]] ([[User talk:Oll
...difference between one space and two. But I'm not confident enough to edit the page [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.97|173.245.52.97]] 19:12, 1 Decembe
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...das and in the Redwall series Matthias is one of the wielders of the Sword of Martin a sword that was hung on a weathervane.
...ca.com/security/2013/11/how-an-epic-blunder-by-adobe-could-strengthen-hand-of-password-crackers/ [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.211|108.162.229.211]
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...e systems now accept longer-than eight-character filenames, and extensions of greater than three characters; although most extensions remain three charac
...ase, a file's extension is generally a good indicator of what type of data the file contains.
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...that system can interact with another system that hosts it. Conway's Game of Life is Turing-complete, but you'd never imagine a Life board to be an atta
The title text reference of "hand-aligned data" may refer to ASCII art. [[Special:Contributions/108.162
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...ther users), however as time has passed they have become friends and enter the chat only to talk to each other, with no relation to computer problems.
...whereas [[Ponytail]] is most likely using an old computer (as evidenced by the CRT monitor).
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The sad truth is that there's nothing out there but the universe. Luckily, it's a magnificent one. [[Special:Contributions/108.162
...Hell, it doesn't require that gods exist for this to be patently obvious, the universe could simply be a simulation. That could be impossible to observe
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Is there any way to install the Vengaboys feature on my own phone? It's pure genius
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...near a [https://xkcd.com/852/ prime pole vaulting location] it could skew the results. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.117|108.162.246.117]] 06:40, 5
...measured in newtons. Hence the comic is making a mistake. One that 99% of the people do. Mass would be correct since it is a more fundamental quantity an
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...you, at least for the next image, refrain from doing that? I can then test the script and if it works, you can continue if you want to, but least I know t
Updating the transcript and anything else from the page is still absolutely fine, I cannot do this. --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]]
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...ips on fire off the shoulder of Orion, c-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I should probably patch OpenSSL.
...o a programming error in OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f — meaning the bug had existed for two years — attackers could read random server memory
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...hoever Cueball is preaching to getting tired of his drivel and showing him the door [[User:BarnZarn|BarnZarn]] ([[User talk:BarnZarn|talk]]) 05:02, 12 Aug
:Really? I think it's the reverse, personally. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.24|172.69.34.24]] 19
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...be funny? It's like making the statement that humans aren't entirely made of glass- who would bother to write anything that could serve as a citation fo
...bile phones haven't always been electronic. Remember the old 'bricks' from the '80s and '90s? More machine than computer.
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Is the Earth baby the real reason Krypton was destroyed? [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.239|1
...seems that, in this comic, the answer is yes; in the real Superman series the answer is no because there is no Earth baby.[[Special:Contributions/141.101
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...tion, ever since he jumped the shark with the dead baby it just feels like the downward trend is getting steeper. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.13
...re going to be of average intelligence within the sample, the same goes to the whole population. So this comic is perfectly valid. --[[Special:Contributio
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Why are there three ''n'''s in ''headcannnon'' in the title text?
...s n increases the effort to convince others that the existence/correctness of headca(n)+on decreases? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.26|108.162.216.
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...mathematics to ball pits. Some appropriate times that Wikipedia references xkcd are as follows:
...orously acknowledges the notion by opening a web browser and navigating to the strip in question.[3]
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| titletext = It's turtles all the way down.
*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1416|original comic}}.
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...As author of the first explanation, I know of what I write. Perhaps minus the snarky code-commenting.<br />
<nowiki>#</nowiki> But I've a feeling there's a better way of writing it, and possibly a different context that I've missed.<br />
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| titletext = If you want to have more fun at the expense of language pedants, try developing an hypercorrection habit.
...in a more multi-faceted debate. [[Cueball]] seems to be looking at results of polling for this ''third'' most popular character.
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Uh ... maybe, just maybe, is Megan referring to the ACTUAL tyrannosaurus, the animal which lived several millions years ago? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([
Any reason why "white hat" is not wearing his hat in the final panel? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.194|173.245.54.194]] 12:20,
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| titletext = I'm sorry, but the author of this Facebook comment clearly believes you were.
...inferior product or idea. Taking things literally is a common theme in the xkcd comics.
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...ications, it would be nice if someone could show real-world examples where the phrases are used [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.168|103.22.201.168]] 10
::Maybe they knew the video was ridiculous and shut it down because of inappropriate media or something? [[User:Jacky720|Jacky720]] ([[User talk:J
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...news is about an event at a hospital or a lab, move it all the way over to the right.
...ies. Nine events are shown in the chart, all of them cliches in the medium of film:
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...ut Number 6 being a reference to The Prisoner. there's no other context in the comic to suggest that reference. {{unsigned ip|173.245.54.180}}
...be a Battlestar galactica reference as well, which is again a reference to The Prisoner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_%28Battlestar_Galactica%29
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Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
(The mouseover to my "Talk" tab appeared as "Your talk page is shite.")
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| title = Stories of the Past and Future
...fact: The 'Dawn of Man' opening sequence in 2001 cuts away seconds before the Flintstones theme becomes recognizable.
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Many were the books of Terry Pratchet... and I haven't read any of them. RIP Sir Terry. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.187|108.162.249.18
...t in the fall, as will the last of the Long Earth series. But here another author are there to finish any loose ends). You will be missed, and thanks to Rand
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*This is a valiant effort to create a transcript for the ''continually''(?) growing dynamic comic [[1506: xkcloud]].
...page of the comic is [[1506: xkcloud#Transcript|transcribed]] as usual on the [[1506: xkcloud|main page]].
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...it. What's more, there is no explanation of the practically unique absence of mouseover text. [[User:BinaryDigit|BinaryDigit]] ([[User talk:BinaryDigit|t
: Lack of mouseover / alt and title attributes is common in **interactive** comics. -
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| titletext = I'm staring at the "doctor" section, and I can't help but feel like I've forgotten someone.
...of Justice}} was soon to be released at the time the comic was made where the two eponymous {{w|superheroes}}, {{w|Batman}} and {{w|Superman}}, fight aga
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...the next line, Dr Strangelove ("or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"). I can't believe this order is arbitrary. [[Special:Contributions/17
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| title = The Rise of Open Access
....342.6154.58 PDF version] is still available on the site. A larger version of this image can be found [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/the_r
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...did the right thing. Of course he may not have been scientific enough, if the reasons his feelings and happiness decreases is caused by some outside agen
I think the r0, r1, r2 are correlation coefficients. They are all between -1 and 1, an
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...s lurking in his room and striking when he sat down at his computer, hence the keyboard smash.
It could be him being taken, or perhaps the spider getting adjusted to the keyboard rather clumsily, what would you see as more feasible?
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...mit where they shouldn't be). A friend used to freely admit he didn't like the taste and only drank to get drunk. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.161|
This is why there are so many different styles of beers, or wines, or other alcoholic beverages. I personally don't care f
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| title = The Martian
...never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't
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| titletext = Instead of bobcat, package contained chair.
...way}} (the disputed authorship of the story is referenced several times in the comic).
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