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...ifferent levels gets you different perks, e.g. If the Kickstarter is for a book, a large donation makes you eligible for a signed copy.
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...modified form in Randall's book ''[[How To]]'', in the introduction of the book. Supervolcanos would be mentioned again in [[1159: Countdown]] and in [[161
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...o a hidden door. It is most used in spy movies or books. In this case, the book is ''Atlas Shrugged'' and instead of a secret passage, the wall swings arou
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...gives "absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems". His first book, ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'', is a collection of his favourite comics published
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...roduct, since it is often significantly more expensive than, say, buying a book on time management at the bookstore.
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...react with the air and/or undergo nuclear decay. In his book ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'', in the first comic, it shows the 92nd little pig, who built
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...stry and Physics}}. It is also nicknamed the 'Rubber Bible' or the 'Rubber Book', as CRC originally stood for "Chemical Rubber Company".
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...d sudoku puzzle books called "Martial Arts Sudoku". The difficulty of each book is denoted by a martial arts belt color, with each color representing a cer
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...not her appearance or address; it locates her by looking her up in a phone book (and ends up killing a number of other women with the same name, as well as
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...http://xkcd.com/ XKCD], asked me to make a fun "simple writer" for his new book, Thing Explainer. The simple writer helps you write using only the top ten
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...cides to look up the code in a book apparently called ''Error Codes''. The book then indicates to go to a lake instead of how to resolve the computer probl
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...t>" to make e-commerce websites display an innocuous pop-up as soon as the book name loads. [https://i.imgur.com/Dd4XN7d.png It immediately worked on sever
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...the protagonist of the Hitchhiker's series, in the beginning of the first book, in an attempt to prevent his house from being demolished, by lying in fron
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...f the series, "{{w|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}" (in the final book, we learn that it was {{Spoiler|part of Dumbledore's plan}}).
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...all are sitting at a table. Cueball is holding the menu as well as a thick book and is ordering from a waiter. Megan is facepalming.]
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...y his butler Alfred. Batman, in contrast to {{w|Superman}} and other comic book heroes, has no superpowers. The name "Batman" suggests that he is a man who
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...steroid and visits other inhabited asteroids and eventually the Earth. The book is filled with drawings of the asteroid, the prince, and the travels they m
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...readers to law professor {{w|Lawrence Lessig}}'s book ''{{w|Free Culture (book)|Free Culture}}''.
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...all ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' articles featured in the blog and the book series.
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* ''[[What If? 2]]'', the sequel to the first book, released in 2022
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...several books about philosophy, mathematics, and science. This particular book is his most famous one, about "strange loops", self-reference, and recurrin
...ences reflect back on themselves; the strip displays some symmetry. In the book, there's an interplay of contributions from the artist, the musician, and t
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* In the book ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'', this comic is slightly different. The derivative is
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...white bubbles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy aut
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...ith is very dismayed by this result, as there are now so many more vampire-book-fans than computer geeks on 4chan, and they cannot get through with any of
...he darkness of the picture. The last picture depicts the cover of the last book ''Breaking Dawn'' with the two chess pieces. This fan seems to be searching
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...{{w|Hogwarts|Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy}} from the popular book series by {{w|J.K. Rowling}} about {{w|Harry Potter}}.
...nd a ruthless master criminal from the {{w|Artemis Fowl (series)|eponymous book series}}. He uses his intelligence to build his family fortune through crim
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...m a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!
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...smee Cullen#Renesmee Cullen|Renesmee Cullen}}, who is the baby born in the book and movie {{w|Breaking Dawn}} to parents Edward and Bella. Edward and Bella
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...ace. {{w|Adam and Eve}} are in the story in the Bible of the creation ({{w|Book of Genesis}}), and are the first pair of humans, created by God.
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**The story can be read in the book ''[https://books.google.ca/books?id=aFHyUfFUVIwC&printsec=frontcover&hl=da#
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...at If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, he will even fight you about it. From the book:<br>
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...ial campaign, 2000|his controversial 2000 presidential run}}, and the 1965 book ''{{w|Unsafe at Any Speed}}''. Nader is an environmentalist and a member of
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...nology for long space flights or other necessary preservation (like in the book ''{{w|2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)|2001}}''). Also people who are terminal
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...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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...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
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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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...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-
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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
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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
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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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...nist in ''The Wizard of Oz'', which is based on L. Frank Baum's children's book ''{{w|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}''. In the 1939 version of ''The Wizard o
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...th the laptop on the floor. On the floor are several pieces of paper and a book. Cueball stands to her left.]
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...ally called ''{{rw|Noah's_Ark|Noah's Ark}}'', is found in the Biblical {{w|Book of Genesis}}; [http://biblehub.com/genesis/6.htm chapters six through nine]
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...ams collectively known as the {{w|Stargate Project}}, depicted in the 2004 book and 2009 film {{w|The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)|''The Men Who Stare at
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...hart. Minard's chart is extensively discussed by {{w|Edward Tufte}} in his book ''The Visual Display of Quantitative Information'', and he summarizes some
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...digital copies, because when you download a game or music file (or read a book, in this case), you are merely making an identical copy of the source mater
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...people who needed to be killed, over the years, but the implication in the book (and movie) is that at least most surrender without a fight and are presuma
...ovie or read the book, you may find it helpful to read the synopsis of the book {{w|The_Princess_Bride#Plot_summary|here}}.
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...e election, he had the edited text of the debates published in a book. The book's popularity and widespread media coverage of the original debates helped p
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...to him, relied heavily on the assistance of his niece Penny, her computer book, and her dog, Brain.
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...y series]]. [[Cueball]] is tricking [[Megan]] by pretending to read from a book about a parasitic brain worm, describing the apparent symptoms caused by an
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...13 and 14 of the {{w|Free Culture (book)#Chapter_13._Eldred|Free Culture}} book by Lawrence Lessig concern {{w|Eldred v. Ashcroft}}, 537 U.S. 186 (2003), a
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In the book {{w|One Two Three ... Infinity}}, the writer describes African tribes that
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...used to turn people "pretty". (SPOILER ALERT) It is later revealed in the book that this procedure is accompanied by a neurosurgical operation making the
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...e and {{w|SETI}} (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). He wrote the book ''Contact'', which was later made into the movie by the same name. While Sa
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...rd Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphi
|TripMaster Monkey says || {{w|Tripmaster Monkey}} is a book by {{w|Maxine Hong Kingston}} about Wittman Ah Sing, an American graduate o
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...legend likely originates from a mathematical error that appeared in a 1934 book, written by a scientist who acknowledged that the conclusion was probably w
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|Robert Bakker is an American paleontologist who has written the book ''Raptor Red'' about the life of a female Utahraptor (see below). This has
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...a very straightforward way. Some have called some of the arguments in the book very clever and original, albeit overly simplistic. This comic could be a p
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...ually resolved this self-reference, but Cantor's 'everything-in-the-fetish-book-twice' parties finally sunk the idea.
...to put that in the book too; this process will keep adding fetishes to the book ''ad infinitum'', again making the task impossible to complete.
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...rather unusual. The Chris Van Allsburg picture book ''{{w|Jumanji (picture book)| Jumanji}}'' and the Robin Williams movie adaptation
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...|The Chronicles of Narnia}}'' by {{w|C. S. Lewis}}. In the first published book (second chronologically), ''{{w|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe}}'', L
...hile playing {{w|hide-and-seek}}, like in the book. Unlike in the original book, Lucy does not precipitately set foot into Narnia. Instead, she fetches her
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...curious" could be a reference to {{w|Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur C. Clarke's}} book ''{{w|Imperial Earth}}'', where bisexuality is the norm. Deliberately trite
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:[A teacher, holding a book, is talking to a student, sitting at a desk and holding a document of his o
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...e. Only thing used in both explanations is the weight of a cat, but in the book it weighs 5 kg rather than 4 kg in this comic.
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...Harriet the Spy}}, the 11 year old protagonist of a bestselling children's book written by Louise Fitzhugh, as well as other spinoff books written by vario
...emes and tone of the novel. The actual movie is one of Hollywood's better book adaptations {{w|Bridge to Terabithia (2007 film)#Reception|[1]}} but the tr
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...he open book lying in front of him. His laptop is standing open behind the book. In front of him, just inside the panel to the right is the back and arms o
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...phers have unsuccessfully attempted to decode the book. A cut out from the book is depicted in the first frame (real or similar).
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...icles of Narnia}}''. In ''{{w|Prince Caspian}}'', the fourth chronological book in the series, {{w|Lucy Pevensie}} tells him that he has grown since she la
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...tes}}'' making it both "officially random", but also essentially not. This book is also referenced in [[1751: Movie Folder]]. See also: [[221: Random Numbe
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...We apologize for the inconvenience." is possibly a reference to the famous book series ''{{w|The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy}}'' by {{w|Douglas Adams}}
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...timate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything}}", according to the book {{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}. The number 4 is formed by digit
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...ontinue talking. Megan has her arms raised. Miss Lenhart is seen reading a book on a sofa.]
...talking. Cueball has his hand raised. Miss Lenhart has looked up from her book.]
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...age of her love of books. He starts to open up a brand-new {{w|hardcover}} book much farther than it was made to open, ruining the spine, and then mistreat
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...hat purports that the more words an author makes up, the less likely their book is any good. To demonstrate this, he provides an example where a hypothetic
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...Room]] and [[635: Locke and Demosthenes]], which cover events in the first book.
...room, with a bookshelf and an open window. Megan is seen outside reading a book by a glow.]
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:[Cueball and Megan are shown sitting on a rock in a park, reading a book together.]
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...before it hits the ground, to get the batter out. Another character in the book, Mrs. Who, may also be on the field; Megan may be pointing out that she sho
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...nel shows the similarity between the story of Martin the Warrior (from the book ''{{w|Mossflower}}'') and {{w|Aragorn}} from ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'
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:[Black Hat, seated in an armchair reading a book, facing to the right]
:[Black Hat, still reading his book.]
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...-narration is marked by Courier font as mimicked in the comic) discovers a book called ''The Navidson Record'' (represented here by the pancake menu), whic
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...ball, effectively becoming a nuisance, interrupting Cueball's reading of a book and leaving Cueball wondering what has happened. In Randall's world, the ta
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...n more so if the friends are heterosexual - most people would not take the book's suggestion, and it may even make them feel embarrassed and awkward.{{cita
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...ook)|What If?]]'' book, the article No More DNA (exclusive to the physical book), this graph is shown redrawn with "Destroying Angel" added to it. Destroyi
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...A Vision of the Human Future in Space}}" inspired by this picture. In the book, Sagan waxed eloquent about the picture in a widely quoted passage. The com
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...x2642;</span> for Mars. (A unicode snowman is also referenced in Randall's book ''What If'', where it is keymapped to a laptop.)
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...Men}} was a 2012 Marvel crossover event that, like many other recent comic book events, had heroes fight other heroes. In this case, the {{w|Avengers (comi
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...ularly when the sayings are sourced from a pop-culture reference such as a book or film. In fact, there are entire [http://www.amazon.ca/Lets-Bring-Back-Co
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...ling the book gingerly as if it were a device with a touchscreen where the book is displayed as an infinite scrolling text. Touching a link would navigate
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...ial lives via the written word over the generation that occasionally wrote book reports and letters to grandma once a year, any day.
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...ion of that comic. Since 2012, most new posts are about Randall's books or book tours. There were no posts to the blog between [https://blog.xkcd.com/2015/
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The comic references the book ''[https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262692988/vaclavsmil-20/ The Ea
On page 186 of Smil's book, there is a bar chart with the following values:
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...ious emacs command see [[378: Real Programmers]]). See [[#Machine of Death book|below]] for why this was used.
===Machine of Death book===
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...n renaming of the British ''{{w|Where's Wally?}}'') is a children's puzzle book in which you have to locate 'Waldo', a character with a distinctive striped
...lower than would be necessary to resolve the characters in a Where's Waldo book. But since Cueball works at the {{w|National Reconnaissance Office}} (NRO),
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...to prevent him being caught with a presumably-illegal copy of an Animorphs book or as a result of embarrassment at his fan fiction - the former is less lik
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...to this one. In [[942: Juggling]], Cueball throws some balls and later a book. They [http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Flying miss the ground].
In the book ''[[Thing Explainer]]'' Cueball jumps to score with a basketball in the exp
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...s Past}}'' trilogy, which draws on a similar idea; the title of the second book, ''{{w|The Dark Forest}}'', is a reference to the same Fermi paradox soluti
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| titletext = We will have an entire wing of the library devoted to copies of book #26, because ohmygod it's the one where Jake and Cassie finally KISS!!!
...the series}} finally kiss. While this is a momentous event for fans of the book series, the information is of no consequence for the rebuilding of civiliza
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...-book/ popular science book] about it, called ''{{w|Fermat's Last Theorem (book)|Fermat's Last Theorem}}''.
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===Paperback book===
:Paperback book $6.80
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...robably because the words in the first panel were way too uncommon for the book - see more details [[Thing_Explainer#References_to_comics|here]].
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...ver and over and then letting your attention wander and picking up another book.
...one in that there is an obvious terminus to the electronics loop while the book loop could extend nearly indefinitely.
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...te to the 18th. One recent version appears in {{W|Stephen Hawking}}'s 1988 book {{W|A Brief History of Time}}, which starts:
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:[Randall's ''What If?'' book is standing next to Cueball who is taking something out of a box. On the si
:[Cueball is beginning to assemble a rocket containing Randall's ''What If?'' book.]
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!|In the {{w|Book of Revelation}} in the {{w|New Testament}} there are {{w|Seven seals}}<ref
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...to four stacks of household objects: the first has a lightbulb on top of a book, the second has a blender on top of three books, the third has five books (
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...ng updated every five minutes. The collection of images creates a {{w|flip book}} that is displayed above.
...e the last picture was released (All 143 pictures are included in the flip-book gif image shown here above). But even 143 pictures at 5 minutes intervals o
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...ented in a {{w|geography}} textbook. May be based on the first page of the book [http://nicksharratt.com/books/other_authors/you_choose.html You Choose] wh
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...s 1:3}}: "God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light"), the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. When rese
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...first five panels of the comic [[Cueball]] reads the quoted passage in his book ''Wings''. This passage describes what Masklin thinks about when he told Gr
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...r those with whose title is an east coast city name) or it could even be a book/song that describes the relevant area.
...John Laroche. The movie is about a screenwriter who struggles to adapt the book into a movie, turning himself into a main character in his own story.
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...ontological argument is that of {{w|Richard Dawkins}}, in his best-selling book “{{w|The God Delusion}}”. His parody is a version of the argument which
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|dictionary in addition to being a book where you can look up the definition of words can also be a data structure
...nd Richard Martin}}, American novelist and screenwriter best known for his book series {{w|A Song of Fire and Ice}} and its television adaptation {{w|Game
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...by Walt Disney is a well-known version of this fairytale based on White's book.
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***In the book ''[[Thing Explainer]]'', she is also used to represent Marie Curie in the e
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...determine which words would go on his list, a list that is revealed in the book. (It can also be found [https://www.xkcd.com/simplewriter/words.js here].)
...ry below and also the [[#Things in this book by page|entire index from the book]] listing all the 45 different explanations.
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...l die. From the [http://machineofdeath.net/ official home page] the entire book can be downloaded for free as a [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/464819
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...Randall. (The link was part of a "news" flash, the other was regarding his book based on [[1133: Up Goer Five]]. See more on this news in that comics expla
|rowspan="2"|Author of book on childcare
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...page with a word size of 6. It then states that we can fit 1000 pages per book. 1000 pages is a lot for children's books{{Citation needed}} and even large
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|For my book report presentation, i'll be acting out "50 shades of gray"
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...agery of Pestilence being thwarted by modern medicine was also used in the book {{w|Good Omens}}, by {{w|Terry Pratchett}} (of whom Randall is a fan, see [
...ubmarine that carries nukes. All three comics and both explanations in the book, does like this comic, comment on how insane it is that we have created eno
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...an (film)|The Martian}}'' is finally released, because he really liked the book. Cueball most likely represents [[Randall]] himself in this comic.
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...sic}} (see [http://www.ealasaid.com/fan/vetinari/vl-soulmusic.html part of book here]). Rather than listening to music, he preferred to read the printed sh
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...ubmarine that carries nukes. All three comics and both explanations in the book, does like this comic, comment on how crazy it is that we have created enou
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This comic uses the starting lines of an innocent children's book and creates irony by delivering a dark message.
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...other beings for sport. Alternatively, a planetary predator (such as comic book villain {{w|Galactus}}) may have previously scarred Pluto.
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...tle text is a reference to the TV series ''Game of Thrones'', based on the book series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''. All of these titles are direct synonyms,
...ets}} is a very well hidden room that is central to the plot of the second book.
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...if.3F_book_tour|book tour]] for the first ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book. See the link for other instances where he mentions this problem in the [[H
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...nto an ebook for people to easily download, then published into a physical book, and has now had a {{w|The Martian (film)|movie}} created based on it. The
...o a {{w|Fifty Shades of Grey (film)|movie}} released in February 2015. The book was already referenced back in 2012 in [[1128: Fifty Shades]].
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...page, and the link stayed for more than a month up till the release of his book [[Thing Explainer]] 2015-11-24.
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::My new book,
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...24_-_Thing_Explainer_is_out_today|changed that day]] to shout out that the book was released on that day. This is a platforming minigame, in which you coll
...about the book, the game does not seem to have any direct relation to the book; there are, however, several scenes in the game that could be seen as [[#Re
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...://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Proverbs-Chapter-1/#3 self-proclaimed book] on receiving wisdom and instruction to be made wise. Thus, her response ap
*In his celebration game for his new book [[1608: Hoverboard]], there is a scene in the Star Destroyer were Cueball i
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...might have them all removed... This comic came out about a month after the book so it may be viewed as a kind of reference to the problem with too many bon
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...oard]], the coin collecting game that celebrated [[Randall|Randall's]] new book.
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...can also be seen on the [[Thing Explainer#Preview Pages|back cover of the book]].
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:[The panel shows a close up of Cueball reading a book. The book is called "How To Juggle" and has a picture of a person juggling on the cov
:[The view now shows the entirety of Cueball. A book is on the floor behind them, and he is holding some juggling balls.]
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...submarine that caries nukes. All three comics and both explanations in the book, does like this comic, comment on how crazy it is that we have created enou
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...made from {{w|Sambucus|Elder wood}}, is a very important part of the last book ''{{w|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}''. Other examples are the {{w|
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...ch sugar as possible to the dish and eat it, so that he can sue the recipe book's writer for any ill effects he receives as a result. Needless to say, this
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...I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and ''wow'' is that book ever boring. No thank you.
..., so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and wow is that book ever boring. No thank you.
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...mous past King of Israel and giant, {{w|Biblical}} characters from the {{w|Book of Samuel}} in the {{w|Old Testament}}). (See the [[#Trivia|trivia section]
| {{w|Batman}} and {{w|Robin (comic)|Robin}} are comic book characters (first appearance for Batman was in 1939, Robin the year after).
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...submarine that caries nukes. All three comics and both explanations in the book, does like this comic, comment on how crazy it is that we have created enou
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...ction on {{w|recursion}} and self-reference, rather than estimation). This book has been directly referenced in [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]].
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...grew up in the forest when Narnia was created in the chronologically first book {{w|The Magician's Nephew}} when Aslan created Narnia.
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...ded phenotype”. {{w|Richard Dawkins}} wrote a {{w|the extended phenotype|book of that name}} (as a follow-up of “{{w|The Selfish Gene}}”) where he de
This is quite similar to an argument made in the book {{w|Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind|''Sapiens''}}. Author Yuval Noah
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...ueball does not revert to fiddling with his phone—he would rather read a book. By using the word "yell" for the way the phone attracts his attention, he
:Cueball: I'm gonna go look for a book or something, but yell if you need me, I guess.
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...|Rachel Carson}}, a pioneering environmentalist who is most famous for her book ''{{w|Silent Spring}}''.
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...ple message like "does anyone speak Russian?" to the whole company address book. Several people are likely to reply using the "reply all" button by mistake
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...use snakes' to 'yes', and choose a large font size (33 or so). Then pick a book with long words and justified text, and read it in a narrow window.
...ly used in [http://www.medievalcodes.ca/2016/04/line-fillers.html medieval book art].
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...io in the "Neutron Bullet" chapter of the ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, and a black hole of similar dimensions in the ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?
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...ross the sky is, and God tells him it is a {{w|rainbow}}. According to the Book of Genesis, God placed a {{w|Rainbows in mythology|rainbow}} in the sky, gi
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...is chronologically earlier than another book will not appear in the latter book, even if canonically they still exist in its time. Here are the seven books
| A forest from the ''{{w|Redwall}}'' book series. See also the comic [[370: Redwall]] and [[1722: Debugging]] that re
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...film}} ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' that were written simultaneously. In the book solely written by {{w|Arthur C. Clarke}} they go to Saturn. In the film (fr
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...search whether he is most likely to bump into something while looking at a book, at his phone, or staring at the sky (something [[Randall]] does a lot with
...into things has little to do with whether he's looking at his phone, in a book or at the sky. Cueball responds defensively, saying that "walking [without
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...one]) that claims honey has an infinite shelf life. The article links to a book that makes the assertion of such findings but does not provide factual supp
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...for_a_penny,_in_for_a_pound "In for a penny, in for a pound"]. The popular book {{w|Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow|"Thinking, Fast and Slow"}} by Daniel Kahneman
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...are the first words said by God during the Creation, according to the {{w|Book of Genesis}}. Here, the title text implies that, as the universe died, AC n
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...ional character {{w|List_of_Moby-Dick_characters#Mates|Starbuck}} from the book {{w|Moby Dick}}, so she could be referring to this, although Starbuck had n
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...andall's goal is to make a cross over of {{w|Zzzax}}, a {{w|Marvel comic}} book villain, with that of {{w|Mister Mxyzptlk}}, a {{w|DC Comics}} villain. Sin
| {{w|Zzzax}} || A Marvel comic book villain. || Proper noun, fictional name || No || Yes, with both blanks as Z
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...A Million Random Digits, which is much better than the American remake the book was based on.
...ing numbers on a screen. Black Hat comments that the movie came before the book, which was a {{w|novelization}} of the film. The '''title text''' says that
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...children, like reading a picture book - specifically, the "touch and feel" book for small children and babies known as {{w|Pat the Bunny}}. It isn't clear
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...s you a list of the top 10 highest-impact potential voters in your address book to get in touch with -- based on the likelihood that they support progressi
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...t Britain] on his blog as part of the promotion for his book ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]''. This map is from a very similar position and appears to have
...and refers to {{w|Downland|chalk hills}}. Possibly a contraction from the book and movie: Watership Down.
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...f anyone calls you on any weird detail, just say it's from the Jedi Prince book series, which contains so much random incongruous stuff that even most Expa
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...nce to ''{{w|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe}}'', the first published book in {{w|The Chronicles of Narnia}} by {{w|C. S. Lewis}}. In the books, the c
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''{{w|Animorphs}}'' is a book series by {{w|K. A. Applegate}} featuring several teenagers who have a spec
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...descriptions of complex scientific and technological objects. Even in his book, some of the more advanced details have been simplified to a toy model (suc
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...The website [https://tor.com Tor.com] is the website of fantasy and sci-fi book publisher {{w|Tor Books}}, which has no relation to the Tor-network.
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...The text in the opening scroll is actually from the beginning of the final book of the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn.
...n_Trilogy_03.html text in the comic] is the first five paragraphs from the book ''[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_Command The Last Command]''. The
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...xtbook only sold one copy, implying that the only attendee that bought the book was adept enough to distribute screenshots of the textbook content to the o
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...ngle is a name often given to New York's Manhattan area. There was also a book and movie titled ''The Petrified Forest''.
...he {{w|Kowloon Walled City}} in the modern era. ''The Secret Garden'' is a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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...ards the desk in a sofa while he is reading from something in his hands, a book or a smartphone.]
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...especially where it involves paintings depicting certain scenes from the book of Genesis. Compared to these effects, the expected upshot for meteorology
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...of this extended period when one expects the other side to have written a book's worth of notes given the time and work they appear to have dedicated to t
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..."brain slugs" in particular may be a reference to the ''{{w|Animorphs}}'' book series, a nostalgic favorite of Randall's, in which humanity is being colon
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...recognizes a scene of three horses on a hilltop from an illustration in a book. He stops his car, gets out and approaches the horses, just minutes before
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...ed by journalist {{w|Tom Brokaw}} in 1998 in {{w|The Greatest Generation|a book of the same name}}, this is the first generation on the list to have a real
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|American author. Most known for his book <i>The Hero with a Thousand Faces</i> about the hero type found throughout
...er churches in the Christian Restorationist movement. Translator of <i>The Book of Mormon</i>.
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...ould be a reference to a pentagon-shaped constellation from Isaac Asimov's book ''Foundation's Edge'', though it could not have been 'known to the ancients
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...recently released when the comic was released. In the movie, based on the book by Cline, finding an "easter egg" in a VR world was a central plot point.
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...the Terminator looked up the mother's name (Sarah Connor) in the {{w|phone book}} of a {{w|phone booth}} to find her address.
...contact and communicate with one another). While the film featured a phone book as a plot point (and shows it being used maliciously), the existence of the
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...f confection, in exchange for leading the other children to her. What the book says and what the movie leaves out is he doesn't know the sweets are enchan
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...only retain items that "spark joy". Ironically, the thought of reading the book didn't spark joy for Randall so he decided to donate it. Thus, one of the
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|Most are the size of typical book. In printed form, they would be in the range of tens of centimeters in hei
...Shakespeare plays, original or print reproductions would be the size of a book, typically. Although ancient {{w|scrolls}} may have different dimensions w
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...but it would be a matter of chance. This could also be a reference to the book ''What If?'', specifically the chapter ''Laser Pointer''.
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...nerd who reads {{w|High fantasy|high fantasy}}. Cueball protests that the book is a classic, but Megan dismisses the fact.
...andall's personal favorite ''{{w|Discworld}}''). To be fair to Megan, this book is apparently not one of them, being thicker than it is wide (like ''The Co
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...may also be an allusion to a Mitch Hedberg joke: "Any book is a children's book if the kid can read!"
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...rence to {{w|Arthur C. Clarke}}'s ''{{w|2061: Odyssey Three}}'', the third book in the ''{{w|Space Odyssey}}'' series, in which {{w|Monolith_(Space_Odyssey
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...nd Fall}}'' by {{w|Evelyn Waugh}} (which is itself a reference to Gibbon's book). This stage is present in the cycle because in the real cycle, at this sta
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...ife are characters from the book of Genesis in the Bible. According to the book of Genesis, Lot and his family had to {{w|Sodom_and_Gomorrah#In_the_Book_of
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...utside, and in fact contains a {{w|labyrinth}} with a {{w|minotaur}}. The book, and Ash Tree Lane specifically, have previously been referenced in [[472:
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...ambiguous, which surprised me. I had just assumed Jonah died--because the book had a medal on the cover, and I knew grown-ups liked stories where sad stuf
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...eginning of a score), "{{w|prologue}}" (an introductory section of a play, book, or similar), "{{w|lumbar}} support" (the thing in a chair shaped to better
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...k three days before this comic, prompting another wave of criticism of the book’s theories.
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...xes}} used by {{w|Lord Voldemort|Voldemort}} in the ''{{w|Harry Potter}}'' book series. A Horcrux is a magical artifact used to house a wizard's soul, prev
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...text]] changed to [[Design_of_xkcd.com#2019-02-06|promote]] Randall's new book ''[[How To]]''.
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...blood substitute for vampires in ''{{w|The Southern Vampire Mysteries}}'' book series by Charlaine Harris, and the television series ''{{w|True Blood}}''.
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* This one is a toss-up in my book, folks.
* This one is a toss-up in my book, folks.
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...step further by sending your reply to every person who is in your address book, whether they received the original email or not. This could be a reference
::(*) Forward to address book
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...ok) to have the perfect spotted fur coat. (The title includes the parents [book: and other Dalmatian caregivers] of the Dalmatian puppies.) The comic claim
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...hting taking place in a big city (i.e., she is literally {{w|Don't judge a book by its cover|judging the books by their covers}}), when in reality the book
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*This is thus not a promotion of the what if? 2 book but stil promotion of the what if? franchise.
...saurus Rex has begun eating its way into the plane. Below the plane is the book title in white text.
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...e US from a different country and broken into someone's house. They find a book labeled "Passwords" that contains all the passwords of their target, and on
:Masked Character 2: They wrote all their passwords in a book labeled "Passwords"!
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...versa. In this case, when he swaps a social media/news app with his {{w|E-book}} reading app, he ends up reading more books (as shown by the graph) becaus
...typically sent as {{w|push notifications}}, about what is happening in the book, to prompt readers to continue reading more pages. This parallels how a new
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The entire comic is an advertisement for [[Randall|Randall's]] upcoming book "[[How To]]".
...this comic was released the top blog post was the one about the ''How To'' book.
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...ide to the third kind of approach. It's the world's least useful self-help book.|[[Randall Munroe]]|[https://xkcd.com/how-to/ Source]}}
[[File:HowTo.jpg|260px|right|thumb|The original cover of the book.]]
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Another comic which is a promotion of [[Randall|Randall's]] upcoming book ''[[How To]]'', to be released less than 3 weeks after this comic's release
...er books, "It's a pretty bad idea" is a pretty good quote for his "How To" book given that many of Randall's humorous explorations of scientific methods of
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...k a question in order to make a statement. Randall has recently done some book tours and was at {{w|San Diego Comic-Con}} [https://blog.xkcd.com/2019/07/1
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...is is another teaser ad for Randall's new (at the time the comic came out) book, ''[[How To]]'', due to be released a week from this comic's release, on Se
...r]] and in [https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ what if 31]. The snippet from his book that is shown in this comic shows scissors cutting off the (top) screen of
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...nstead of answering with a favorite item – such as his favorite album or book – he goes on a {{tvtropes|WikiWalk}} through various things (see [[#List
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...ndall's]] new book, ''[[How To]]''. The comic is based on a chapter in the book.
...ages/0/08/2198_Throw_-_Front_page_promotion.PNG combined promotion] of the book during the three full days the comic was on the front page (see more [[2198
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..._Happy_Release_Day_-_bookstore|promote the release]] of the ''[[How To]]'' book. So for three days (from Tuesday to Thursday) the front page of xkcd looked
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...ly covered this scenario in detail in his ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, see [https://io9.gizmodo.com/xkcds-creator-explains-what-would-happen-if-e
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:[Cueball is sitting in an armchair holding a book. He seems to be looking off as he talks to an off-panel person behind him.
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...dren from England who travel to a magical land called Narnia. In the first book of the series (by publication date), ''{{w|The Lion, the Witch, and the War
...book, although most of them are accessible only to the kids from the first book and their friends.
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...y a bit of surrealism on Randall's part; Tank Girl (the subject of a comic book and 80s cult sci-fi movie) and William Howard Taft (the president that ever
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...}'', a 1985 animated film and a film adaptation of the {{w|Asterix}} comic book series. '''Winner: Asterix'''
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...:Book promotion|yet another]] fun way to promote [[Randall|Randall's]] new book, ''[[How To]]'', released on September 3, 2019, reminding people to buy it
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...ience|changed]] to ask if there were someone that would like Randall's new book ''[[How To]]'' as a Christmas present.
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...expanded to other media|Expanded Universe}} fiction, to the point that one book had {{w|Han Solo}} make fun of the Empire's tendency towards building super
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...sulting with internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch, I settled on "ok" in my book How To, but I'm still on the fence. Maybe I should just switch to "oK."}}}
...tions. Randall claims that he consulted with her on the use of "ok" in his book ''[[How To]]'' and after changing back and forth between different options
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...ated with fireworks. Judging by the fact that she doesn't look up from her book, her surprise is sarcastic. Beret Guy breaks into song with the New Year's
...he air. He is standing behind an armchair where Megan is sitting reading a book or paper. She holds it open with both hands. She has turned her head halfwa
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...e for many engineers. (In a special preface in the UK edition of Randall's book ''What If'', he mentions that one does not appreciate the metric system unl
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...the polling questions we agree on MOST, you can check out Chapter 24 of my book How To, where I got the Roper Center on Public Opinion Research to help me
The title text refers to the chapter "How To Win an Election" in Munroe's book ''[[How To|How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems]
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...mon cold through aggressive physical distancing alone. The section in that book concluded that total elimination would be impractical. However, the current
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...n of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42|forty-two}}. However, in the book this answer is meaningless without knowing the ultimate ''question'', and s
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...ravel is used to retrieve whales and transport them to the present. In the book {{w|Timeline (novel)|Timeline}}, time travel is used to record historical e
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...ertainly a flashy name, but which itself was changed by the editors of the book of the same name from its authors' originally-intended title: The ''Goddamn
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[[File:xkcd_volume_0.jpeg|260px|right|thumb|The cover of the book]]
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...lized depiction of {{w|Guy Fawkes}} (designed by David Lloyd for the comic book ''{{w|V for Vendetta}}'' and made popular by {{w|V for Vendetta (film)|its
...text is a reference to ''{{w|The Haunted Mask}}'' by {{w|R. L. Stine}}, a book in the {{w|Goosebumps (original series)|''Goosebumps'' series}}. The mask
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...in any given field. This notion was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in the book "Outliers", and has frequently been misunderstood to imply that anyone who
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...suffice to get a head's up on when a possible invitation or opportunity to book would present itself.
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The title wording has a number of possible meanings to it. It's the 'Gatsby' book via the medium of the electronic Flash format. Because of the briefest of a
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*Some stickers are from the book ''What If?'', not from the website (https://what-if.xkcd.com).
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...es}} by Neal Stephenson. This hypothetical event forms the premise of this book, during which Earth's whole sky becomes occluded by dust raised by millions
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..., is considered a soliloquy, even though Ophelia was in the room reading a book.
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...books as decorations, rather than reading material, upsets many purists. "Book people" are more likely to have a practical system for arranging their book
...ber), and then replace it in the correct space after reading. Adding a new book would require individually placing potentially hundreds of pages. Where pag
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...rsion=KJV Revelation 6:12] on a social media website. The author(s) of the book of Revelation refer to themselves as John; some religious scholars identify
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...d by the imminent release (as of the comic's time of posting) of ''{{w|The Book of Boba Fett}}''.
....com/wiki/Boba_Fett%27s_armor Beskar] armor (a fictional material), so the book is technically non-fiction.
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...to many lands and kingdoms while the latter may allude to the fact that in Book XI of the Odyssey, Odysseus visits Hades, which is traditionally reached by
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...the object being dragged. Randall has brought up this point before, in his book, "[[How To]]"
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**It turned out that it was a countdown to the reveal of Randall's new book [https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/ what if? 2] which was announced at the end of
***A follow up on his first book based on his blog ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]''
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[[File:What If? 2 cover.jpeg|260px|right|thumb|The cover of the book]]
...636: What If? 2 Countdown]]. In 2014, the first [[What If? (book)|What If? book]] was released.
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...his ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' blog and following his first what if book.
...Header text]]) is a link to a [https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/ what if? 2: the book] page on {{xkcd}}.
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...134 (frame 135 was identical to 134) and finally the complete shift to the book cover version from 135 to 136. Mainly to show how the plane moved up when t
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...e to God reportedly describing himself as "the alpha and the omega" in the Book of Revelation or due to its highly distinctive shape. It is often used to r
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...floor which is white. There is a rug, a couch with a pillow (white) and a book. There are two windows, in the right there is a potted plant. Knit Cap stan
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...tions. This comic is another [[:Category:Book promotion|promotion]] of the book, and the entire comic is a link to his [https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/ what if
...ries of questions]] he claims to have received, but rejected to use in his book, giving an example question for each category. In typical xkcd fashion, the
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...#2022-01-31_-_What_if.3F_2|since the promotion]] of the new ''what if? 2'' book.
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...''{{w|Fahrenheit 451}}'' characters have memorized books to save them from book-burning and... spoiler-stuff.
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...tes once describes himself as "the Adam of [Frankenstein's] labour" in the book, and strictly speaking is properly known as "Frankenstein's ''monster''" (o
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...appens between Harry Potter and Voldemort's wands in the end of the fourth book, the {{w|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|''Goblet of Fire''}}. Here two
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...version of this comic appeared in the first [[What If? (book) | "What If?" book]], chapter "Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #9".
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The title "the Wrong Stuff" may be a play on {{w|The Right Stuff}}, a book/movie/TV series about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with expe
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...mentioned siphons in [https://what-if.xkcd.com/143/ whatif 143] and in his book, "[[How To]]," section "How to Throw a Pool Party".
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...thin the articles. The entries are all in order of their appearance in the book.
...solutions for their problems. Many of the questions and answers in his new book are impossible to attempt in real life.{{citation needed}}
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...ry large books do exist.[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/longest-book-in-the-world-impossible-to-read-180980814/#:~:text=At%2021%2C450%20Pages%2C
..., Pin drop, Mouse, Ant, Bun (rabbit or pastry), Snow globe, Newt, Balloon, Book, Hat
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...east partially inspired by writing the books ''[[How To]]'', ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'', and ''[[What If? 2]]'', the latter of which was published ju
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...logy (etymonline) for the word {{w|Blimp}}. This example is a quote from a book from the year 2384 called ''Jovian Blimps: a History'', dating the definiti
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...s humor by taking it to the extreme and showcasing a periodic table from a book published just half an hour after the {{w|Big Bang}}, at which time those f
...know it could exist with only these four elements to write and publish the book; perhaps it is why Randall's mysterious textbook seems and manages to refle
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...t in [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2834:_Book_Podcasts 2834: Book Podcasts].
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...book called "{{w|Snow Crash}}", by Neal Stephenson. An early scene in that book involves the equivalent of a skater using a magnet on a cable to attach ont
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...ney, it is projected to arrive in 2033, 10 years after Cueball ordered the book, instead of the original 2 days(assuming that the day of ordering is the sa
...one, sitting at a laptop. He has taken his party hat off and put it onto a book on his desk.]
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...The positions are indicated in the drawing by a circle to the left of the book for the author, a box on the left-hand page for the creator, and a labeled
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[[Image:New_What_If?_cover.jpeg|260px|thumb|right|The new cover of the book]]
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...e-one-that-s-with-you ''The Best Camera Is The One That's With You''] is a book by photographer {{w|Chase Jarvis}}, celebrating mobile phone cameras, not f
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...dall]]'s [[what if? (blog)|''what if?'' blog]] and his books ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' and ''[[What If? 2]]'' requires a wide variety of scientific
...e desk have changed, so there are now a laptop computer and a stack with a book and some papers on the desk. Hairbun is sitting on an office chair behind t
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...omplaint of "coddling" some group was popularized by the title of the 2018 book, "The Coddling of the American Mind," a criticism of modern higher educatio
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In the panel, characters from one such book (presumably a made-up example) are contemplating a puzzle involving somebod
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...planets within the play area, many containing easter eggs alluding to the book What If? 2 and previous xkcd comics. The flight mechanics are Newtonian so
*Ground caption: "Give someone the science question-and-answer book ''What If? 2'' for the Holidays: xkcd.com/whatif2"
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...books, as an easy and convenient way to digest literature when reading the book yourself isn't an option. As spelled out in the caption, he quickly realize
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...]]. If the title of a blog article differs from the title in the book, the book's title will be listed next to the original. A similar list can also be fou
! Title in the book
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...a way that creates interesting drama and conflict — is the subject of a book, Flatland, that Randall has referenced repeatedly, such as in [[721: Flatla
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...' sans-serif typeface (hence the “Sans” in the name) inspired by comic book lettering. Many graphic designers {{w|Comic_Sans#Opposition|dislike Comic S
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...text = The Gordian knot is an omniknot tied using every bend in the Ashley Book of Knots, and then for extra security the upper rope at every crossing is c
...is still considered the reference in knot tying. Using all bends from the book and as many hitches would make the final result very complex indeed. Randal
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...th 100% accuracy. If a Bloom filter is used to represent the contents of a book, reference to the Bloom filter could perhaps reconstruct everything, just b
...meaningless on its own and has the possibility of being wrong. An average book contains several millions of bits, yet the SHA-2 hash has only 256 bits, so
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| A reference to ''{{w|Animorphs}}'' book series featuring fictional sapient species of [https://aliens.fandom.com/wi
...el paperweight containing an '''archive of every''' published '''Animorphs book'''! (Your launch speed has increased.)
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...ailing-list functions (though more commonly this is done via named address-book 'groups'). That said, the asterisk ''character'' is a valid one that may fo
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...ires slowing down by about 100 m/s (which according to the ''[[What_If%3F_(book)|What If]]'' chapter "Orbital Submarine" could be accomplished with the 24
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...-13 - What if? 2 is available now|changed that day]] to shout out that the book was released on that day. (It had been counting down the last week, from [[
...ce a relevant possibility is reached in the flowchart a page number in the book is given. It thus assumes the reader plans to do something that the advice
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...urd and obscure ways to measure the amount of time until [[Randall]]'s new book [https://xkcd.com/whatif2 ''What if? 2''] is released, with esoteric units
| 0 || Sep 13 || ''What If? 2'' release day || N/A || Book launched!
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...of making and posing cardboard cutouts traced from figures in a children's book with wings added. Due to technical advances, young children now can more ea
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...nstant messaging. She writes for {{w|Wired}} and, in 2019, she published a book on internet linguistics, ''Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of
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...he link to the store. This was while it was still possible to preorder the book via an [[Header text#2019-07-09_-_Drawings_from_How_To|elaborate version of
...]] changed to announce the [[Header text#2019-06-11_-_Book_tour|''How To'' book tour]], two new links was also added to the xkcd links.
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...on's nickel paperweight containing an archive of every published Animorphs book! (Your launch speed has increased.)
[[Category:Book promotion]]
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[[Randall]] is again promoting his new book, ''[https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/ What If? 2]'', and starts by explaining the
...ives both direct and humorously indirect instructions of how to obtain the book for them, the latter method making a jocular (but not completely wrong) pre
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...rial essays'', which are intended to argue a point of view persuasively; ''book reviews,'' which summarize monographs or biographies; and ''grant proposals
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...ook as it states that this flow chart is taken from the ''[[What If? 2]]'' book, and the link to his promotion page is written in the comic: [https://xkcd.
[[Category:Book promotion]]
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...erest in minimalist visions of English communication. He published a whole book, Thing Explainer, about explaining complex ideas — such as the Up-Goer 5
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...a beach. The first is the Lifeguard problem, which Richard Feynman, in his book ''QED'', uses to illustrate {{w|Fermat's principle}}, or principle of least
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...with entries posted occasionally. Before publishing the first ''what if?'' book, articles were posted weekly. On the blog, [[Randall Munroe]] discusses hyp
...after a three week countdown revealing the image from the cover of the new book over 136 frames released with about 4 hours between each frame. This has be
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...on's nickel paperweight containing an archive of every published Animorphs book! Your launch speed has increased.
...from the left part of Stonehenge on the Round Planet. Some scenes from the book "what if? 2" and the xkcd comic 2712: Gravity appear here. Features (clockw
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...nks on 2022-01-31. That date is also the release day of the [[What If? 2]] book, and of the comic [[2575: What If? 2]]. Most likely the shop completely shu
...ive the store the attention it needs, but Randall is completely focused on book stuff for the time being."
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...ntioned last. The intersection of 2D objects in 3D space is the topic of a book, Flatland, that Munroe has referenced repeatedly, such as in [[721: Flatlan
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