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| title = Exploits of a Mom | titletext = Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

...ve it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well. ...the Twilight forum. This results in what the original 4chan users consider a ruined imageboard.

| titletext = And the journal is filled with all the things I'd say to her if I were nice like you. I burn it when it's ...to his reputation though, as it turns out that the journal is just part of a plot to hurt innocent, preferably shy, girls.

| titletext = The top computer champion at Seven Minutes in Heaven is a Honda-built Realdoll, but to date it has been unable to outperform the huma ...s in parenthesis in the comic are the year that the game was mastered by a computer):

...ts developer(s). Stallman has expressed that he did not even wish to be in a comic using the phrase '''Open Source''' (see the [[#Trivia|trivia section] ...r them, and thus sleep with weapons near their beds. Stallman has received a Katana due to this comic (see the [[#Trivia|trivia]] section).

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1110|original comic}}. ...ning in it all at once. [[Cueball]] comments about this while hanging from a balloon, which brings to mind the expanded perspective over the landscape a

Another fine example of [[356|nerd sniping]], as mentioned in the title text. There are pieces of circuit diagrams, road maps, chemical diagrams, and other things all mixed

...nch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other. ...has just finished with a shower, as seen from the fact that he is wearing a towel around his waist.

This is the first of three "five-minute comics" Randall posted during a week in November 2010. The introduction to the comic explains everything yo .... Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Five-minute comics|Five-minute co

...t = If at least one person has a nightmare about being swarmed by hundreds of mouse-sized dromaeosaurids, my work will have been done. [[File:Velociraptor_dinoguy2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Artist's impression of a feathered velociraptor (from Wikimedia Commons)]]

| titletext = To be fair, the braised and confused newt on a bed of crushed Doritos turned out to be delicious. ...he next generation. After being allowed to proceed for an extended period, a genetic algorithm can often produce remarkable results. If the initial cand

...etext = Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sci ...s comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by a {{w|fractal}} of blogs.

...in the Java language that are used for {{w|exception handling}}, a method of signaling error conditions and responding to them. Also, the terms "parent ...ack, perpetuating the cycle. This program will also eventually crash with a {{w|stack overflow}} error.

| titletext = I am never going out to buy an air conditioner with my sysadmin again. ...tter deal. In both the first two cases, the pair is able to easily come to a decision.

| titletext = Friends with detriments. ...s contact the parents of the person one has a crush on). But Cueball takes a different route, and in the comic, he explains his thought process. Presuma

...ss, but that makes you the kind of person who wastes ten more getting that computer to run Minecraft. ...uardian article] about it. PRISM, leaked by a former NSA official, incited some controversy since it provides government access to private data (e-mails, v

...Paul Rudd, Alan Alda, and Duran Duran meet together in the Secret Council of /(\b[plurandy]+\b ?){2}/i. ...mplementation, is satirized in the form of an Ayn Random number generator (a pun on Rand's name) whose creator claims is perfectly fair but demonstrably

...e structure}} at the bottom of the page to easily understand the structure of the entire transcript ([[#skip-to-bottom-anchor|Jump to bottom]]). Expand b ...2014-04-20. (Taken from the ''Your computer is literally haunted'' branch of the BSD story on ''Why is Python importing Skynet?'')".

...do]. I can fix it, or wait a few years until I don't want that combination of things anymore, using the kitchen timer until then. ...ly temporarily alleviates the underlying issue. Determining the root cause of the problem is often nontrivial.

*Below is a table of 2252 feed entries, featuring 1528 different pictures and 1993 different cap ...ns a list of all discovered permalinks, which reuse different combinations of the same pictures and captions.

| titletext = If you're not completely satisfied with the phone after 30 days, we will return you to your home at no cost. ...s released almost a year later. The phrase "We made another one®©™" is a reference to how phone companies release new phones very often, and the tra

...st becoming a relic of the past. Today's quantum hyper-beings are too busy with their internal multiverse sims to even notice that they're in boxes at all! ...ns by showing how people have always complained about the negative effects of technology on conversation - that people get '''isolated''' while using the

*Below, you will find a '''complete transcript''' for [[1608: Hoverboard]]. **This includes all text, but also a full description of all drawings as well as size and distances.

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1608|original comic}}. ...This is a platforming minigame, in which you collect coins while riding on a hoverboard.

| titletext = Due to a minor glitch, 'discharge patient' does not cause the algorithm to exit, but ...estions posed by humans. Recently, {{w|IBM}} has extended Watson to act as a {{w|clinical decision support system}}, using image analytics to aid {{w|ph

*Below, you will find a table with link to all 3440 active individual images found on {{xkcd}} for the [[1608: ==Description of table==

...m|operating system}}, an {{w|Apache HTTP Server|Apache}} {{w|Web server}}, a {{w|MySQL}} {{w|Database}}, and the {{w|PHP}} programming language. In this Another example of a tech stack is featured in [[2166: Stack]].

| titletext = "That last LinkedIn request set a new record for the most energetic physical event ever observed. Maybe we sh ...so their follow up [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ2RNBAFLj0 The Future of Gravitational Waves]).

...ity}}). An expression such as "If A, then B" amounts to asserting that, if A is true, then B is also true is called {{w|conditional probability}}: "If it rains, then the air gets cleaner." (a general law or observation)

...ee blarbl(2)(3) and birb(3ahhaha I'm kidding, just Google it like a normal person. ...ity and terseness found in many man pages, making fun of the typical style of the genre.

...n of each of the remaining figure. I'm not sure I will be able to continue with this work at the moment... So please feel free to improve. --[[User:Kynde|K ...be necessary. I will continue to work on this page, but I think we've hit a big ''milestone'' in being able to remove the 'incomplete' tag! [[User:Blac

...plus side, we definitely killed that cancer over there, even if we caused a bunch more everywhere else. ...6d8fc6447#.g0qcjzjlv phrase] "[http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14445-a-new-manhattan-project We]

| titletext = Despite it being imaginary, I already have SUCH a strong opinion on the cord-switch firing incident. ...went into the design and manufacture of everyday objects. See explanation of [[#Individual design elements|individual design elements]] below.

| titletext = Once you've done this, make a note of how old they were. Then, when their age reaches double that, show them this ...make them realize that things they think of as new and modern are actually a lot older than they thought. This, in turn, will make them feel old.

| titletext = WHEN I WAS ON A BOAT I DROPPED MY PHONE CAN U LOOK FOR IT ...feed [http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream.html] of its deep sea exploration online.

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1975|original comic}}. ...Category:Sunday comics|a Sunday]] (only the fourth comic to be released on a Sunday). But it was only due to the April Fool joke, as it did replace the

| titletext = I thought of another bad opinion! I couldn't find anyone who expressed it specifically, ...ome person he has discovered, presumably through the aforementioned method of searching for bad opinions he thinks up.

...king Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, but the protocol developed by Harald was a wireless charging standard unrelated to the modern Bluetooth except by name ...rocess, with each device having its own method for initiating or accepting a pairing request.

...handful of irregular bugs by burying them beneath a smooth, uniform layer of bugs. ...text cursor does not indicate clearly the space is in bold or italics when a user hovers their mouse over it. [[Randall]] worries about this.

...link to a [https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_of_128.png image of the results]. ...against each other in a cup or {{w|Bracket (tournament)|bracket}} system, with only one winner. See more below under [[#How it worked|How it worked]].

...HREF? Look, we know you live in a fancy futuristic tech world, but not all of us have upgraded to the latest from Sun Microsystems. The comic shows some email settings with a few less-than-helpful options.

...updated whenever [[Randall]] has news to share. However, after the novelty of the news ends, the page usually goes back to its default header text, which ...tended periods though. The most recent header text can be found at the top of the [[Header_text#Global_header_text|Global header text]] section, if it ha

...etext = Phylogeneticists are working on identifying and notifying its next of kin. ...erj.com/articles/9832/ fossils of dinosaurs that were buried and killed by a volcanic eruption].

...w performs them in that order instead of the reverse, saving a HUGE amount of CPU time. ..., usually printing, scanning, copying, and faxing. This machine starts off with fairly standard printer functions but quickly becomes absurd. The machine i

..., would often get confused between "ale" and "ail" or between "allot" and "a lot". The English language has no distinction between nouns and verbs by sp ...e too distracted by wondering whether ale is a verb to process the meaning of the request.

| titletext = The bruises on my fingertips are my proof of work. ...e task of attaching the 'key' (which looks like it could be a common brand of physical two-factor key fob or dongle) onto his metal keyring.

...ion}}'', which is focused on the crew of a starship. The ship is equipped with {{w|Replicator (Star Trek)|replicators}}, which can create virtually any ob ...implies that the display shows each part of the order, and provides a list of options for the next step.

...'I don't understand, I swear I backed up my keyboard config before messing with it' ...ly based upon the allegory of a mystical {{w|Chord (music)|musical chord}} of several musical notes, that the words and tune both describe and illustrate

...my risk of death by bear attack by 300%? That's a 280% increased! I'm not a sucker; I'm staying inside. ...ng outside for more than 5 hours per day significantly increases your risk of head injury from falling spacecraft, and advises to limit outside activity

Here the long tables needed for the explanation of the interactive comic [[2765: Escape Speed]] could be moved. =Table of planets=

...omic relates the results of software development to the reputed safeguards of nuclear missile launch systems. ...turn both keys simultaneously, or initiate the sequence without the second person.

| titletext = Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they should, they didn't stop to think if they could. {{w|Artificial intelligence}} (AI) is a [[:Category:Artificial Intelligence|recurring theme]] on xkcd.

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2765|original comic}}. ...lar release day, but 4 days late, even though April 1st was a Monday, also a regular release day).

{{TOC}}Below, you will find the full transcript of the comic [[2765: Escape Speed]]. ...all powerups and items) by clicking the "Home" button in the bottom right of the playing field.]