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...dle-class people are constantly focused on merely surviving until Saturday with enough energy to relax properly. ...ed to sell. This fact may explain why the last panel is drawn in negative, with the background black. It gives a very ominous feeling to the last remark.

| titletext = I think the IETF hit the right balance with the 128 bits thing. We can fit MAC addresses in a /64 subnet, and the nanob ...of possible addresses the nanobots cannot produce any more of themselves. With the tiny size of each nanobot, the total volume they can contain is only 40

...bots. A few people have escaped from the Matrix, and they are on a mission with others to free the human race from the robots. The title of the strip is a ...es; {{w|Neo (The Matrix)|Neo}}, as [[Cueball]] in the first two scenes and with a black coat in the third scene; {{w|Trinity (The Matrix)|Trinity}}, as [[H

..., it is very sad that this journey is pointless - light's travel ends only with us seeing "pretty dots" - stars in the sky. Beret Guy then tries to return ...ach the mirror and, even if the mirror is held at the perfect orientation, with dispersion (even if the mirror is perfectly smooth, the atmosphere is not)

| titletext = This is actually pencil on paper, just inverted and colored<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20 ...e original caption on the LiveJournal post, he originally drew the flowers with a pencil on a white sheet of paper. Then, he used the invert feature of a p

...o challenge a "take-down notice" in court, should judges continually agree with the larger corporation. ...pated in a mass protest on January 18, 2012, to announce their displeasure with the bill in an attempt to convince the House of Representatives to reverse

...ican market, noted for its small size and coming pre-installed with Linux. With a diagonal size of 11 inches, it would take a big hamster ball to carry it {{w|Omniwheel}}s are wheels with rollers mounted on the edge to allow the wheel to slide sideways. The wheel

...ble IPv4 addresses are dwindling. There are plans to replace the addresses with {{w|IPv6}}, which will largely increase the number of available addresses. ...and three children are around a campfire at night. Cueball is standing up, with a flashlight under his face.]

...ration Paperclip, and one that Black Hat aims to make people uncomfortable with, is that a significant number of ex-German personnel were Nazi party true-b ...holding something up to show it to Black Hat. It is small and rectangular with a black line in the middle (possible a rocket).]

...oks toward the sky and wishes that his mom pull harder so that he could be with her. The joke has been turned onto itself. [[Category:Comics with inverted brightness]]

...zon and the ground appear dark almost black at the very bottom. Two frames with two lines of text are at the top left and right, similar below except the o :I've always had trouble with the size of clouds.

...and the beam used in a 90-second gamma ray therapy session could, if fired with less precision, kill a horse (they did not let me test this). ...after day, and this is done by lining up the alignment lasers of the linac with the skin markers - that is Megan's tattoo dots. It may not be considered a

...asterisms that we recognize today and are among the first taught to people with an interest in astronomy. The Pleiades is an open star cluster in the const ...and says, "There's the Big Dipper!" (both appear as a trapezium of stars, with a handle, though the Pleiades is much smaller). This gets frustrating about

This comic is about the desire for an intimate connection with another, and the compromises we make to not be alone. ...gets ready and drives to a club to meet people. The club is drawn using an inverted color scheme (white people, black background) to emphasize that it is the o

...is a takeoff of the scene where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg comes up with the idea for the site, saying that people like checking up on their friends [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

On the [http://xk3d.xkcd.com/848/ xk3d prank site] created along with [[880: Headache]], the 3D on this comic is not visible. :[The people are in a dark theater, fiddling with their glasses.]

...suring comic about stars at night giving hope in the darkness, but then as with most xkcd's, it took a turn. In this case, the twist is that because [[Cue While talking about his star, Cueball shares with his friend a quote from the ''{{w|Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

:Pope: I mean, we can't have a trinity with just a Father and a Son! :[The four Cueball-like Ghostbusters with their proton packs.]

There is a subtle play on words with the use of 'unplugged', which has a double meaning here. The state of HAL a ...spacecraft is also spherical, but to the right the space craft continues, with two rings around a cylinder going off panel to the right. There are several

:[Cueball sits hunched with his knees drawn up to him on a hospital bed, hooked up to an IV. A friend s [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

...nd safety when caught in a lightning storm. The joke is that someone armed with this particular statistical knowledge would not take the normal precautions ...ably invented by the author - which also illuminates the danger of dealing with "statistical data" provided by random sources without any attribution to ac

...>/bin/zsh</code> in the final panel), making a [[wikt:ze#Etymology 1|pun]] with the expression "{{w|Ghost in the Shell}}", which is the title of a popular ...a white-on-black terminal showing a bit of output from ps -el | grep sam, with processes running from root and sam.]

...h a matchbox on a telescoping pole and the actual robot, a mobile platform with an umbrella on top and pusher in front. ...nclude an umbrella on top and a trailer unit consisting a telescoping pole with a matchbox and match on top.]

:[In the first panel there is a desk with monitor on it, and a painting of a woman above that. Next to it is a booksh :[There is a fireplace, with no fire. A rug lies before it. At the left end of the mantelpiece are two b

...il arriving at the surface of Earth, all the while approaching a 1:1 scale with real-life distances. As shown in [[1162: Log Scale]], if [[Randall]] didn't ...seen (otherwise, round objects like the sun would appear more egg shaped, with the flatter side facing upward). However, objects are still much larger or

...wing correct calculations according to the {{w|dimensional analysis}}, but with ridiculous correlations of uncorrelated events and measurements. Here Cueba ...en formula can possibly relate to a physical system, because if you end up with an equation claiming that Joules are meters, something is clearly wrong. Di

:[Image of the Earth in color as seen from far off in space with pitch black around the Earth. Two blocks of text are above and below the Ea ...le of the panel black. Above and below is white sections (without a frame) with text:]

...c was published, some theaters around the U.S. began to sell movie tickets with reserved seats, both online and when purchased at the theater. When you bu ...aveling salesman problem}}, is referenced in the title text, as well as in comics [[287]] and [[399]].

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...title text. Viewers who were unfamiliar with the novel and saw the movie with expectations based on the trailer were also unprepared for the actual movie ...gs_Are_(film)|film adaptation}} of {{w|Where the Wild Things Are}} was met with {{w|Where_the_Wild_Things_Are_(film)#Critical response|favorable responses

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...layout that helps a reader find posts by hyperlinking to posts associated with that keyword or category. Tags are shown in a proportionally larger typefac [[Category:Comics with inverted brightness]]

...f the system, someone else is controlling the probe, and the message "Mess with the best, die like the rest" is communicated from the probe. This is a catc ...aying 'Beat that!'. In the comic the transmitter being used to communicate with ISEE-3 was hacked by Burn to make the probe burn up over Crash and Burn swi

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This was the fifth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous April fools' com ...e. The first picture shown on top of this page is the start of this comic, with a possible combination of text options to choose from (see above). The pict

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This interactive comic begins with a panel where [[Cueball]] is stacking turtles. This is a reference to the i ...ontinue to zoom in on a pixel it then resolves into another comic picture, with black-on-white comic panels making up the white pixels and white-on-black p

...{{w|oxygen}} on {{w|exoplanets}} (planets outside our {{w|Solar system}}) with [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faithhill/breathe.html the lyrics] for the ...all}}). It is thus clear why [[Randall]] would be interested in exoplanets with oxygen.

...ean Telescope}} works at the same principle as a magnifying glass together with your eye lens, the magnifying glass only has to have a long focal length wh The title text assumes (for comic effect) that the only thing wrong with Beret Guy's strategy is the instability of the ladder endangering the expen

*There seems to be a typo in the title text with double the: ...between Margaret and a computing running OpenSSL, explaining the problems with the {{w|Heartbleed bug}} and why it should be addressed and fixed.

...f indifference, [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/care synonymous with "I could'''n't''' care less."] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCUsPnKD1gk ...r, ironically, at the end of the comic, the meaning of "I could care less" with regards to Ponytail's behavior is ambiguous: either Megan is brushing off P

...ter to Cueball of course, who appears only interested in the intensity and brightness the device is capable of achieving. The comic may refer to the flashlight f ...he facade of the house and the stairs are also visible in the same manner, with deep dark shadows where anything is in the shadow. Megan averts her face fr

...ght" {{w|main sequence}} white star, while Sirius B is a {{w|white dwarf}} with a little under half the mass, 0.49% the radius and only 0.22% the luminosit See also [[1371: Brightness]] and [[1342: Ancient Stars]]. Saying cool things about space to make peopl

[[Randall]] provides us with a – presumably anecdotal – montage of the Internet's changing attitude ''[...] One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was some

[[Randall]]'s then girlfriend, now wife, was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010, a matter he has discussed in the comic [[:Category:Can This comic is part of a [[:Category:X Years|series of comics]] and directly continues [[1141: Two Years]], which is shown as the first e

...idea of "{{w|Digital detox|unplugging}}" and getting away from technology, with the idea that this can improve one's sense of well-being, and allow a focus ...no longer have access to useful features of their phones, such as mapping with GPS, which would help them find their way, and a flashlight, which would le

...inues with [[Megan]] as a TV host mixing accurate astronomical information with trivialities, as well as utterly bizarre statements. (See this [[1644: Star ...n needed}} (There are about 125 billion triangles visible in the night sky with around 9096 visible stars.)

...is the closest star to Earth in the Northern Hemisphere. It is a red dwarf with a mass of 0.144 Solar masses, a diameter one fifth that of the Sun, and it Barnard's Star is the star with the greatest proper motion in the sky. Proper motion is motion in the sky o

...e the release of this image by the Event Horizon Telescope, referenced two comics earlier, in [[2133: EHT Black Hole Picture]], as well as to indicate the hu ...1/4 of the diameter of the central black portion of the image is labelled with an arrow:]

The comic starts with White Hat, looking at some people taking photographs and lamenting the fact ...able to share its experiences in its 15-year, 45-kilometer journey on Mars with the entirety of humanity.

...& Dragons, the solar system is also enclosed in a massive crystal sphere, with other solar systems in similar solar systems, separated by "the flow". ...drones, but these are usually invisible due to size and distance more than brightness.

...o produce a calendar grid from a list of dates in Google Sheets. I replied with a single-cell formula that took in a list of dates and outputted a calendar [[Cueball]] is doing some task on his computer, with an {{w|Shoulder angel|angel and devil on either side of him}}, trying to in

...where artificial structures require constant upkeep and communities change with time, and the digital worlds of video games, where everything is static unt ...izes about the idea of it not being so, the comic displays the alternative with the ubiquitous video game - ''Super Mario Bros.'' (1985) - as an example. {

Next he considers replacing the word "meet" with "e-meet." The use of "{{w|Internet-related prefixes#"E-"|e-}}" as a prefix ...it to his hands touching the receiver's eyes, then concludes the greeting with a simple "Anyway, hi." This might be off-putting to a friend that Cueball h

...g a stargazing event, in which she mixes accurate astronomical information with trivialities, as well as utterly bizarre statements. (See this [[1644: Star {{w|Light pollution}} is indeed a problem with stargazing. Light pollution is the presence of artificial light in the nigh

...he has discussed in the comic [[:Category:Cancer|multiple times before]], with Randall being depicted as Cueball and his wife as Megan. It has been 10 yea ...r seized) rabbits or other animals used to interacting with each other and with unfamiliar humans under controlled circumstances, to help them be more suit

...nomy fact. The next comic with a fact, namely [[2596: Galaxies]], was also with an Astronomy fact. This is the first time that the field that a fact pertai ...deployment of the sunshield. Thus successful steps are widely celebrated, with this comic an example of such a celebration.

...etween the two, especially if the navigation instructions seem to coincide with the interrupted speech. In cases like this, the listener might think that t ...she is about to tell what the betraying woman said to her before she left with the money, which might have revealed if it had been planned in advance, the

...camera is better than an expensive professional camera if it is more often with the photographer, for example if it is light-weight enough to be carried on ...by orbiting the Earth, allowing only a short observation window per orbit, with only about 55 minutes of each of its 95 minute orbits usable for observatio

...gnals to deliberately reveal (not conceal) their presence. Often creatures with sufficient control of their phosphorescence can even fulfil multiple purpos While Megan and Cueball are walking towards a field with fireflies, she points all this out and suggests that it was just a fluke th

...Original Series shuttle {{w|Galileo_(Star_Trek)|Galileo}}) evading combat with some unseen but presumably more battleworthy enemy vessel by fleeing into s ...ence actually is, potentially to test the in-universe physics and find out with which method their in the real world unsurvivable situation might be escape

This is the 13th [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]], but 18 days late, see the [[2 ...small grey circles will instead just make you find an item, such as a rock with neat stripes, a cool bug, and a pretty leaf.

...star, with the diffraction spikes that usually happen when taking pictures with telescopes. An exoplanet orbits that star, and its trajectory crosses one o ...very short, is at approximately 20 degrees. The third, fourth, and fifth, with the emergent parts approximately one radius long (the fourth slightly longe

| titletext = The best place to be for a hug eclipse is a scenic natural area with good views and few clouds. The worst place to be is the lunar surface. |With the Moon nearer its apogee (and/or the Earth at perihelion), the Sun has a