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  • which is not really a comic, even though we've categorised it so. --> ...[[Special:ContributionScores|Lots of people]] contribute to make this wiki a success. Many of the recent contributors, listed above, have [http://www.ex
    3 KB (472 words) - 07:50, 17 April 2024
  • ...lt. I am sure there are real reviews that criticize xkcd, but this is just a joke blog.{{unsigned|Flewk}}
    1 KB (175 words) - 15:57, 5 September 2019
  • <noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Black Hat|Comics featuring ...hat style hat, that quickly evolved to have the current shape and style of a {{w|pork pie hat}}, already used in [[45: Schrodinger]].
    5 KB (762 words) - 23:27, 23 March 2024
  • | titletext = That eggplant is in something of a flaccid state. A large version is [http://xkcd.com/1079/large/ here].
    16 KB (2,566 words) - 21:31, 27 January 2024
  • | titletext = That's a gneiss butte. ...eology)|cleavage}}," "deeper in the {{w|rift}}," "{{w|orogeny}}," (perhaps a {{w|portmanteau}} of {{w|orgy}} and {{w|erogenous}}), "huge," and "{{w|Thru
    3 KB (518 words) - 23:34, 26 March 2024
  • [[Cueball]] is arguing with a {{w|conspiracy theorist}} who believes in some {{rw|conspiracy}}, who is si ..." websites can be made by anyone and have little limitations. The maker of a ".net" does not need to show sources of information or even their name. As
    5 KB (799 words) - 01:40, 17 February 2023
  • ...y, when I looked at an analog clock, the hand would sometimes seem to take a couple seconds to start ticking. Google "stopped clock illusion". A [https://xkcd.com/1080/large/ larger version] of this image can be found by
    9 KB (1,456 words) - 15:13, 21 October 2022
  • | titletext = I liked the idea, suggested by h00k on bash.org, of a Twitter bot that messages prominent politicians to tell them when they've u ...age Service, which limited messages to 160 characters. Twitter has adopted a 140 character limit since its inception, which allowed any given tweet to b
    4 KB (608 words) - 21:22, 28 August 2023
  • ...ommand that lists the files in the current directory. The computer returns a bizarre error message — it trips over one of the simplest commands, indic ...in a folder called "android_vm" suggests Cueball was attempting to boot up a virtual Android device, but somehow wound up directing the Linux server to
    5 KB (796 words) - 12:49, 29 December 2023
  • ...]] and he has quite a few wishes, most of them based on the previous wish. A common trope in fiction is that wishing for more wishes is prohibited and f ...ing a wish, where the rules are discussed by the Genie that will grant him a wish.
    14 KB (2,365 words) - 20:26, 8 March 2024
  • ...onary.com/define.php?term=vaguetweeting "vaguetweeting"], which is posting a short message of sadness or frustration without context. This is frustratin ...as altruistic as a for-profit company can be). In the comic, ContextBot is a fictitious Google invention which puts context for these statuses, presumab
    6 KB (1,009 words) - 14:53, 28 December 2023
  • ...harlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spid This comic is a mash-up between the ''{{w|Lord of the Rings}}'' trilogy and the novel ''{{w
    3 KB (461 words) - 19:41, 18 January 2024
  • ...er questions. You're hired!' 'Oh, sorry! I'm no longer interested. There's a bunch of future I gotta go check out!' This comic is a take on the common and cliched job interview question here asked by [[Hairb
    2 KB (297 words) - 13:12, 3 April 2023
  • ...k pieces may also be a reference to {{w|Edward the Black Prince}}, who was a prominent figure in an earlier stage of the Hundred Years War. As you can s .... The usual gambit of sacrificing a pawn is subverted to be a sacrifice of a high-value piece, as an analogy of what happened at Agincourt.
    3 KB (492 words) - 23:48, 3 April 2024
  • ...y}}ing him. This comic inspired several xkcd readers to give Cory Doctorow a red cape and goggles when he won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award. Cory Doctorow' :Man in Red Cape and Goggles: Are you a blogger? I play one of you at our festivals!
    4 KB (562 words) - 20:29, 29 August 2023
  • ...problem, Cueball "Just Gives Up" and puts all his items and furniture into a box labeled "Misc" for miscellaneous, with the exception of his laptop, ca ...osts on how to "hack" your life and improve it. Life hacking appears to be a common theme in xkcd, such as in [[2024: Light Hacks]].
    1 KB (185 words) - 14:11, 5 June 2022
  • ...nsylvania, where the film is set. The folklore ritual consists in removing a {{w|groundhog}} from its burrow. If the sun is shining and the groundhog ca ...oncept of {{w|Absolute Infinity}}, which he equaled with {{w|God}}. It was a common concern in Cantor's time to preserve the consistency between mathema
    5 KB (829 words) - 23:26, 11 January 2023
  • ...of human, if anything happens to said box on wheels, such as crashing into a wall, the humans inside may be badly injured, if not killed. Had they evolv ...ndividuals may have moved faster than that by falling out of a tree or off a cliff. Fast vehicles, on the other hand, have only appeared in the last cou
    2 KB (365 words) - 18:25, 1 June 2022
  • ...ons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the sur ...]] is referring is [https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/73388356461019136 a tweet] by {{w|Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, an American astrophysicist and science
    4 KB (656 words) - 22:48, 7 July 2023
  • This comic was posted right after the '''weekend''', on a Monday, so it was on time to emphasize that ''we all hate Mondays''. In the first image, there is a reference to the {{w|Loverboy}} song "{{w|Working for the Weekend}}"; both
    3 KB (517 words) - 20:08, 14 November 2023

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