...ic, if a slightly avant-garde one. I actually went out of my way to modify the 'random' button to include it, but that annoyed too many people—most of w
...] was released on Wednesday April 2, 2008. This comic was released between the two, on Tuesday April 1st 2008.
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| titletext = So, um. Do you want to get a drink after the game?
...ceremonies and {{w|American Football}} plays intended to misdirect or fool the opponents about what is really happening.
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...a stud finder, although online review compilations are useful for finding the right stud finder to buy.
...mportant a prelude to any new drilling of holes or hammering of nails, and the same or similar detectors aim to reduce that risk.
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| titletext = We actually stand around the antivirus displays with the Mac users just waiting for someone to ask.
...and configure their own preferred operating systems and software. As such, the subtext is that somebody buying a complete pre-packaged home computer syste
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...with Lucy and the football was always whether, on some level, she believed the things she said.
...title), because she knows that she has already won and then does not need the machine to tell her so. She says it proves she doesn't act like a rat goin
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| titletext = No matter how elaborately you fool yourself.
...ion will occur, but grounds the reader with the last line of the comic and the title text.
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...to categorize music. Tags will typically describe the content and genre of the song, and many music organization programs and services will allow users to
...When Cueball asks for a second example, Megan gives him a new example for the same set of tags, which is really impressive.
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...ause sexual arousal in a person. "Fermirotica", then, is erotica made from the solving of a Fermi problem.
...xample parameters given in the comic yield 139 metres.) The implication of the equation is that we are surrounded by sex in our everyday lives and that th
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...ys out at what is, probably, a {{w|New Year}} party thrown by [[Danish]]. (The previous New Year day comic in 2007 was also related to a wild party: [[364
In the first panel, we see [[Black Hat]] telling [[Cueball]] that he has hired {{w
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| titletext = The strongest incentive we have to develop faster-than-light travel is that it
...d.com/1212/large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on xkcd.
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...h parts ordered from the {{w|Acme Corporation}}) to catch the Road Runner. The Coyote never succeeds, often because his devices don't work as intended.
...itle text is implying that Chuck Jones would not let hubris go unpunished; the engineer might be able to construct 'better' traps than Wile E, but they wo
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...prank to fool the astronomer, so he is in fact looking at a reflection of the Earth.
...which would convince him that there definitely ''is'' intelligent life on the other planet, looking straight back at him no less!
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...tory/1248397/andy-warhol-originals-found-on-floppy-disk Sky News published the story] of original {{w|Andy Warhol}} artwork, created in 1985 on an {{w|Ami
...{{w|AOL}}, NYET, and {{w|Kazaa}}. These files are meant to be analogous to the fossils and artifacts found in lower, older rock layers.
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...t, reflected off the Moon, promptly lances down from space and hits him in the back approximately 2.5 seconds after it was loosed.
...were successfully renewed after the rovers' positions were photographed by the {{w|Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter}}.
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...tisement features a useless tagline (very few people can use two phones at the same time) and touts a variety of features which are either pointless, misl
From the top, going clockwise:
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...specified statistical model that a statistical summary of the data (e.g., the sample mean difference between two compared groups) would be equal to or mo
...nths or years of work, and might inspire desperate attempts to 'encourage' the desired outcome.
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...ly himself particularly) do a lot of mobile typing, and a 30% reduction in the time that takes would allow more time for other activities.
...nything, providing an example of how Cueball's other actions do not embody the same commitment to efficiency that he claims to have.
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<!--DO NOT ADD the title text: Return to the play area. This is not shown in the comic. See trivia-->
*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1608|original comic}}.
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...ies near the bird/plane boundary over a range of distances, which explains the confusion.
...{w|dwarf planets}}. See for instance also explanations, for the layman, of the results here: ''[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers
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...on once said, "If I am to be shot at, I want Gnome Ann to be in the way of the bullet.".
...cation, "gnome" is pronounced as in the fantastical creature and not as in the Linux-based {{w|GNOME|Gnome desktop system}}.)
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