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  • '''Megan''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. She is the second-most frequently appearing character, after [[Cueball]] ...has quite odd habits and is sometimes shown to be very focused and intent on a goal. However, as explained above this is not a general rule for a given
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  • ...for ''Earth Standard Time'' (hence the title), but it is in itself a joke on the American {{w|Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard Time}}. In the rest of ...l days" as a day of the week, in order to make every date fall on the same day of the week every year.
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  • | titletext = Though please do confirm that it's actually *me* on Klout first, and not one of my friends trying to get me punched. The great thing about {{w|Klout}} was a site that sought to measure your "influence" on social media networks. They sometimes gave away "perks" to the users with t
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  • ...dge more than $50 you'll get on the VIP list and have first dibs on a slot on ANY of the pledge levels in the actual campaign. ...uld want to guarantee a specific reward from a pledge level, this VIP-list-first-dibs offer may have been desirable.
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  • | titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'. ...rics in the original version, to serve as a callback. The last line of the first verse in each song goes as follows:
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  • ...rk image to a normal comic, with the first normal panel being superimposed on the dark image. All three sentences are attributed to the apocalypse, but it seems that the first one about the sky burning, actually comes from a translation of one of the
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  • ...ies I do the same thing, but the other way around.|Randall Munroe|[https://xkcd.com/about Source]}} ...ific answers to absurd hypothetical questions", while on his [https://blog.xkcd.com personal blog], called ''[[Blag]]'', he posts announcements related to
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  • | titletext = People tell me I have too much time on my hands, but really the problem is that there's too much time, PERIOD. Clicking the image at xkcd.com links to [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ak43bGxHGI1adDMt
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  • ...n obscure manuscript from the 1490s and the other twenty-two are arguments on LanguageLog. ...sing many large obscure words in one sentence, Randall may also be picking on linguists, [[114|one]] [[1483|of]] his [[1602|favorite]] [[2390|subjects]],
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  • {{comicsrow|1465|2014-12-26|xkcd Phone 2}} {{comicsrow|1456|2014-12-05|On the Moon}}
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  • ...while it was on-line and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Fi ...indeed confuse the date with November (or October) 7, despite it being {{w|Day of Infamy speech|"a date which will live in infamy"}}.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Monday%27s%20drawing%3A%20Snapple ...sed the apple with tin. {{w|Tin}} is a metallic element whose abbreviation on the periodic table is "Sn" (as the Latin word for tin is "stannum"). Thus,
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=10%3A58%20am-,Monday%27s%20drawin ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=10%3A58%20am-,Monday%27s%20drawin
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  • ...critical part of the operating system, while there is no such restriction on UNIX - if a root user feels like (or accidentally) deletes a vital file, th ...ked, the friend denies the request. Cueball then (ab)uses the sudo command on the friend, who then has no choice but to go and make the sandwich, and now
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  • ...uote|A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.|[https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]}} ...y [[Randall Munroe]] and hosted at [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. It focuses on {{w|science}}, {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|technology}}, and general {{w|geek|ge
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A44%20pm-,Pi%20equals,-(4%20Co | titletext = My most famous drawing, and one of the first I did for the site
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Draw ...%20the Original caption</span>]: I saw the "problem" t-shirt (upper right) on campus a few days ago and suddenly felt so sad.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A38%20pm-,Barrel,-He%27s%20fai ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A38%20pm-,Barrel,-He%27s%20fai
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=Just%20Alerting%20You%20(Monday%2 ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=Just%20Alerting%20You%20(Monday%2
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  • ...angular momentum generated by its rotation on its axis, which creates the day/night cycle. This momentum can change (increase, decrease, or halt) through ...momentum/ calculated] how much time Megan slowed down. And finally, in ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'', this is also calculated above the comic, giving a final valu
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