...r anyone finding errors in his publications. The first error found in each book is worth US$2.56 (256=2<sup>8</sup> is a very important number in the IT do
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Also, in [[Randall|Randall's]] book [[Thing Explainer|Thing Explainer,]] every number from one to ten are in th
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...ing at a computer, and Cueball is sitting in an armchair, reading either a book or a newspaper.]
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...he idea of executing as an example was discussed by Sun Tzu in the ancient book {{w|The Art Of War}}.
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...stack of three books in front of her, is reading another book and a fifth book lies behind her on the floor.]
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...ipedia. To encourage people to be on their toes, I'm not going to say what book or author.
We haven't seen a book like the one Randall describes in the title text, but one example of the mi
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...me}} which states "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.". The book referenced is "The Secret House: 24 hours in the strange & wonderful world
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...and two pieces of paper, one lying below the other paper but up above the book. A smaller frame breaking the border at the top of the frame has a caption:
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''{{w|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe}}'' is a book in which four children accidentally wander into a world known as {{w|Narnia
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...ode> to make e-commerce websites display a hackneyed pop-up as soon as the book name loads. [https://i.imgur.com/Dd4XN7d.png It immediately worked on sever
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...Psychologists tick is a bald man with glasses and a goatee beard holding a book under one arm. The third person above the Biologists tick is a Cueball-like
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The {{w|Dread Pirate Roberts}} is a fictional character from the book and movie {{w|The Princess Bride}}. Roberts is the most feared pirate on th
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...s are shown as tastier than red may partially be because in his "What If?" book, Randall mentions a specific dislike of "red delicious" apples.
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The book rule is an actual alternative to the right hand rule that might be useful t
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...nsional space|2D}} world -- a recurring reference in XKCD comics. Half the book is a direct satire of {{w|Victorian era|Victorian}} society, and the other
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...e. Holding a book prompts my mind to enrich itself. Frankly, I suspect the book isn't even necessary.
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...the [http://xkcd.com/635/info.0.json official transcript] on xkcd). In the book these two kids write their opinions on their world's version of the interne
...in moderated political debates in the higher-class nets. By the end of the book, Peter has become the leader of the world, and Valentine runs away with End
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The book ''[[Thing Explainer]]'' that was the reason for the Hoverboard game, also h
...shed 20 books on suicide and its prevention, one of which, ''A Commonsense Book of Death'', defines most people to be death-postponers. A death-postponer h
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...which showed that Bean was manipulating many of the events of the original book.
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:[Couple sitting opposed, Megan on couch reading book and Cueball a chair with a laptop.]
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...mazon.com/dp/0811855511 ''Porn for Women''] is a popular illustrated humor book that features exactly what the comic says.
...hat objectifies the people involved in the intercourse. The authors of the book follows this line, presenting an (arguably) more sexist porn, that instead
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...house, even letting the boy cut it down to make a boat. At the end of the book, the boy comes back as a grown man and the tree tells him sadly that it has
...side complaints that Amazon would continue to use {{w|DRM}} "encumbered" e-book formats.
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...endless series of screens similar to panel 2 of this comic. In the latter book he focuses on the idea of minds being self-referential. "In the end, we are
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...mith}} from {{w|Lois McMaster Bujold}}'s ''{{w|Shards of Honor}}''. In the book, Cordelia Naismith and Lord Aral Vorkosigan are on opposite sides of the Be
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...learn to juggle [[Cueball]] begins practising after reading an instruction book. In the third panel, it seems as though he is juggling normally after tossi
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...ment that there's something creepy about the windmills. They allude to the book ''{{w|The War of the Worlds}}'' by {{w|H. G. Wells}} (the Jeff Wayne musica
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...that the text above is the one she types. Behind her stand Cueball with a book in his hand, and a man with male-pattern baldness holding up a smoking pipe
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...ut philosophy, mathematics, and science. He is perhaps most famous for his book ''{{w|Gödel, Escher, Bach}}'' which explores "strange loops," or {{w|self-
...le text of [[555: Two Mirrors]] and [[608: Form]]. Furthermore, his famous book has been directly spoofed in the title of [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]
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...10496 cult-like following] among scientists. He's also (largely due to his book) known as something of a womanizer, thus why he would take several women ho
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...ike a pot of boiling water. But every time he gets 15 minutes in to such a book he freaks out, realizing this deadly stuff is right beneath him, and he ben
:[Cueball reading a book pulls legs up tight under office chair, peering downwards.]
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The phrase ''A suffusion of blue'' is a reference to {{w|Douglas Adams}}' book ''{{w|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul}}''. In it, an ''{{w|I Ching}}'' c
...o discs in front of Cueball, it may also be referring to Terry Pratchett's book ''The Last Hero'' where the last survivor of a ship that went under the dis
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...owing the faithful nature of ''Wishbone'''s adaptations, an episode on the book would likely involve age-inappropriate material for children, as the sounds
*''{{w|The Anarchist Cookbook}}'', first published in 1971, is a book that contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary t
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This comic is an illustration that will later be used in [[Randall]]'s book '{{w|Thing Explainer}}', where he took it upon himself to explain a number
...th the element with his hands over his mouth. See more below regarding the book.
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...{{w|psychology}} (that he has obviously learned from the heavy volume of a book lying on the table with that title) to engineer a forked object in such a w
The title text mentions the book lying on the table, giving not only the title and the edition (21st) but al
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...94&nodeID=283155&store=books a popular Amazon review] for Randall Munroe's book, What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.
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..." is another quote from Ecclesiastes; this line is repeated throughout the book and refers to impermanence of man and his creations. As the mirror just bro
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...a full beard. Gary Gygax is leaning over his bag behind him, taking out a book while resting the other hand on the table. On the table are already two oth
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...ntal monotheism. {{w|First Epistle to the Corinthians|1 Corinthians}} is a book of the {{w|Christian biblical canons|Christian Bible}}. Megan refers to cha
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...Outliers" and "Blink." {{w|Steven Levitt}} is one of the co-authors of the book ''{{w|Freakonomics}}'' and the Freakonomics blog on NYTimes.com.
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...MHz, 128Kb storage, and a memo pad, calendar, and state-of-the-art address book that can store over 100 names!
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...he best content. However, this fails to realize that the publishers of the book would only be good at marketing themselves, but not necessarily at teaching
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...uter hacker. The term "console cowboys" is stated to be a reference to the book ''{{w|Neuromancer}}'' in the full scene.
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...//en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conflate conflates] the origin story of the comic-book superhero of {{w|Spider-Man}} with the origin of {{w|Ohm's law}}, as both t
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...ying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid for.
..."] ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called ''{{w|Steal This Book}}''. There is also some underlying humor: since xkcd [http://creativecommon
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...apturing the Heart of Mr. Right" which the authors describe as a self-help book for women seeking a man to marry. It's often decried for being formulaic an
...eball]]'s response to [[Megan]]. ''{{w|The Giving Tree}}'' is a children's book by {{w|Shel Silverstein}} about the relationship between a tree and a young
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...]], [[304: Nighttime Stories]], and [[241: Battle Room]]. In the parallel book to "Ender's Game", "Ender's shadow", the main character has had the gene fo
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...rping house on the same street from the mysterious '{{w|House of Leaves}}' book.
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