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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

...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.

| 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

...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.

| 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:

...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

...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

| 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

...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]],

{{comicsrow|1465|2014-12-26|xkcd Phone 2}} {{comicsrow|1456|2014-12-05|On the Moon}}

...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"}}.

...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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...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

...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

...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

...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.

...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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...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

{{comicsrow|474|2008-09-10|Turn-On}} {{comicsrow|442|2008-06-27|xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel}}

...ferences the 1981 {{w|Reagan assassination attempt|assassination attempt}} on the then American president, {{w|Ronald Reagan}}. ...{{w|Macintosh}} was a line of computers created by {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}}, first introduced in 1984, with the {{w|Macintosh 128K}}.

...he [[:Category:1337|1337 series]] where the entire family is shown for the first time. The title of this comic is a pun: "exploit" can mean an accomplishmen The first line is valid SQL code that will legitimately insert data about a student n

This comic focuses on the {{tvtropes|CorrelationImpliesCausation|apparent difficulty people have ...the concept, hence the lack of absolute causation. It could also be a joke on Megan's behalf. Cueball may know whether his new knowledge is caused by the

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...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A36%20pm-,Le%20Petit,-Another% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A36%20pm-,Le%20Petit,-Another%

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...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A42%20pm-,Irony,-Too%20much%20 ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A42%20pm-,Irony,-Too%20much%20

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A34%20pm-,Girl%20sleeping,-I%2 ...s in 11th-grade Spanish class. We were watching a movie and she was asleep on the floor in front of me.

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Spiders,-They%27re%2 ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Spiders,-They%27re%2

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A43%20pm-,Firefly,-Drawn%20in% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A43%20pm-,Firefly,-Drawn%20in%

| titletext = Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in *To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A46%20pm-,Barrel%20%2D%20Part% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A46%20pm-,Barrel%20%2D%20Part%

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A30%20pm-,Monday%27s%20Drawing ...nues! ([http://www.xkcd.com/barrel_cropped_(1).jpg Part 1] and [http://www.xkcd.com/barrel_mommies.jpg Part 2])

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=2%3A42%20pm-,Monday%27s%20Drawing ...are all the barrel comics on a single (easily linked) page:<br>http://www.xkcd.com/barrel.html<br>I cheated, and went back and lightened the gridlines in

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=11%3A54%20am-,Barrel%20%2D%20Part ...D%20Part%205,-The%20ferret%20got Original caption</span>]: The [http://www.xkcd.com/ferret.html ferret] got to fly, in the end!

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Canyon,-I%27m%20not% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Canyon,-I%27m%20not%

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A45%20pm-,Copyright%20Law,-I%2 ...read about copyrights, and without any moderation, over 600 people clicked on it.

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,- ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A16%20pm-,Friday%27s%20Drawing ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A16%20pm-,Friday%27s%20Drawing

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A40%20pm-,Strip%20series,-One% ...ch to Kurt Halsey to chaotic and sappy.<br>The whole series is [http://www.xkcd.com/comic/comic.html here].

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Pill ...reading it! Cool, huh?<br>Also, all the barrel strips are now [http://www.xkcd.com/barrel.html here] for easy linkage to people you think might like them.

...nytail]]'s car in his version of "keying" a car. She broke up with him the day before, as she explains to [[Cueball]], but Beret Guy is so strange that sh ...oo) further confuses the situation, causing Ponytail to completely give up on dating.

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original

...or encourage the players. Rockapella was an {{w|a cappella}} band featured on the show that gave clues, punctuated the show with humor, and closed the sh [[Megan]] recounts her surprise as to the nature of programming on late night PBS to [[Cueball]]. She claims to have fallen asleep after watch

...nline, many popular websites and web comics participated in a mass protest on January 18, 2012, to announce their displeasure with the bill in an attempt This was [[xkcd|xkcd's]] participation in the protest. [[Randall]] discusses below the black pan

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...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=4%3A38%20am-,Useless,-(3%20Comments LiveJ ...he same day across both sites, but not all of them shared the same posting day.

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Drawing%3A%20Counter%2DRed%20Spiders Live ...an>]: [http://www.xkcd.com/red_spiders_small.jpg They] must be [http://www.xkcd.com/red_spiders_2.jpg stopped].

...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Drawing%3A%20Found,-I%27ll% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Drawing%3A%20Found,-I%27ll%

...on LiveJournal than on xkcd.com (25/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=11%3A04%20pm-,Science,-Bonus%20points%20i

...on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (21/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=1%3A43%20am-,Malaria,-Current%20Mood%3A L

...s in the Ottoman Empire' and I'd still read through to the end, then click on all the links at the end. ...d a page, find a certain trope, which will lead to you opening another tab on your web page in order to read after you're done with the original one. The

...sources and downloads] page where a list of sources and the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png full image] can be downloaded ...almost forgotten how enjoyable it can be.|[[Randall Munroe]]|[https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/11/24/money-chart/ Source]}}

{{Quote|[...] I have always been of the opinion that http://xkcd.com/404/ is an actual comic, if a slightly avant-garde one. I actually went ...eased on Wednesday April 2, 2008. This comic was released between the two, on Tuesday April 1st 2008.

...side, I wonder how many poorly-written xkcd.com-parsing scripts will break on this title (or ;;"'<nowiki/>'{<<[' this mouseover text." ...ou read an unmatched parenthesis, you will look for it for the rest of the day too.

...ic curve (not to be confused with "logarithmic") describes a trend that at first appears to behave exponentially, but then tapers off and reaches a cap, as ...is actually a lot longer than most of our nonrenewable resources will last on the Earth. The idea that ''all'' of the Earth's coal, oil, natural gas, etc

...Mayan culture. Knowing this, some thought that the world was going to end on that date. ...nships might not fare well. Thankfully, as of 2014, not a single published xkcd comic of 2013 featured any Mayans, so we're pretty sure this promise wasn't

...frame, a particle will remain at rest or at a constant speed unless acted on by an external force, and Newton's second law takes a simple form: F = ma. ...t-if.xkcd.com/92/ One-Second Day] and the 6th footnote of [https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/ Earth-Moon Fire Pole], stating that it is a real thing, and that h

...7-451c-b429-702e9ae8dcb1.pdf</ref> by the {{w|POTUS|President}}, they must first go through a confirmation hearing in front of the {{w|United States Senate| This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday to Friday) and not over the usual schedule of

[[Megan]] and [[Blondie]] (in her first appearance) discuss their plans for life after college. Megan has taken the ...fact that this was the first week where the comics were not also released on [[LiveJournal]].

...accurate data which traced back to... Wikipedia. To encourage people to be on their toes, I'm not going to say what book or author. ...enesis is the formation of cells and their development. {{w|Citogenesis}}, on the other hand, is a [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portmanteau

...ving my cultural assumptions challenged? Are you sure you're not... ::puts on sunglasses:: ...projecting? ...s that it is frequently encountered by the general public. A straight line on the map corresponds to a course of constant bearing (direction), which was

...e {{w|Leet}} alphabet, a coding system used primarily on the internet (and on early text messaging systems), meant to provide a bit of {{w|obfuscation}} This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday to Friday) and not over the usual schedule of

...His full name is known to cause problems with some computers. When he was first enrolled in school in [[327: Exploits of a Mom]], it exploited a vulnerabil Within the five comics he is referenced, he is only drawn three times. The first two are in the [[:Category:1337|1337 series]] where he is drawn as a Cuebal

...having dubious or no factual basis. This comic was posted on Independence Day in 2007. ...{{w|Constitution}}" and "{{w|Constitution of the United States}}" articles on Wikipedia are now semi-protected due to excessive vandalism.

...live in a {{w|Two-dimensional space|2D}} world -- a recurring reference in XKCD comics. Half the book is a direct satire of {{w|Victorian era|Victorian}} s The joke here is that Cueball was being silly and drew lines on A. Square to make him look like {{w|SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|Spong

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1110|original comic}}. This comic is a take on how vast and rich the world is, and on the thrill of exploring it. The world can be described as sad, as well as i

The xkcd page links to [http://xkcd.com/930/large/ a much larger version]. ...is. Conversely, the further out a phrase is, the more associated with that day of the week it is.

...d a {{w|trans-lunar injection}} which put them on course for the moon. The first burn took 2 minutes 45 seconds, which put them in orbit 185 kilometers (115 ...issions of this design was the unmanned launch of {{w|Skylab}}, the U.S.'s first space station; for this payloader configuration, the Saturn V launch vehicl

...verage of e and π just as the American Presidents' Day is always observed on the 3rd Monday of February (between {{w|George Washington}} and {{w|Abraham ...Randall uses seems to resemble an older shape of the digit 4, such as seen on [http://www.bl.uk/learning/images/mappinghist/large2296.html archaic maps].

...in physics, and its repercussions are still being widely explored to this day. She had to learn mathematics by taking {{w|Academic audit|auditing classes Zombies are a [[:Category:Zombies|recurring theme]] in xkcd, particularly zombie scientists, which has also occurred twice before with

| titletext = I call Rule 34 on Wolfram's Rule 34. ...d himself trapped for eternity in an endless expanse of sand and rocks. At first, he uses this time to derive all of mathematics and physics, plus more, inc

...ot visible. The 3D view is still available at [https://xk3d.xkcd.com/ xk3d.xkcd.com] for all comics prior to this one. ...1037: Umwelt]] released on Sunday April 1st 2012, the first to use another day of the week than Monday, Wednesday, or Friday. Some people suffer from head

| titletext = I hear that there are actual lyrics later on in Land of 1,000 Dances, but other than the occasional 'I said,' I've never *The picture is a link to [https://xkcd.com/851_make_it_better/ a better version] of this comic, see [[#Trivia|Triv

...}}, in which sound effects such as "BAM!" "POW!" "ZAP!" would be displayed on screen in similar spiky bubbles. This fits with the theme of the comic, wit ...d by typing in a valid tar command, but blows up if you don't do it on the first try) because the syntax of some commands and programming languages are just

...ght only until the sun reaches red giant stage, engulfing the Morning Star on his brow. Light and high beauty are passing things as well. ...ic 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 [[Cueball]]'s s

In this comic, [[Jill]] asks [[Cueball]] about a mark on his arm. He apparently believes he is part of a secret society, so secret t ...years after being 'chosen', Cueball finds a scrap of paper with an address on it, and a can of {{w|kerosene}}. Both of these events are not unlikely, and

...ould not be valid). The value of the sign cannot be true for more than one day. The value of the sign in the comic (38) can only be true if someone flippe ...adox). Self-reference is a [[:Category:Self-reference|recurring theme]] in xkcd. Examples include [[33: Self-reference]] and [[688: Self-Description]].

...uations (as it allows the code to be optimized more closely for the system on which it is to run than is possible with other types of coding), but is sti ...handle. It also requires that a relevant version of the interpreter exist on any machine that has to run the script and perhaps some additional knowledg

...it. There was one week when a wheel of cheese got dangerously close to the first page, though. ...remely inefficient, as they might have to change the wheels they use every day, it may also result in copyrights and lawsuits against his company.

...about who got the last word. If humanity reaches the tipping point and one day can't do anything to stop global warming, Cueball will find it interesting In the title text, he touches on the political side of global warming, saying that there are many well-meani

...erting the change, and usually accompanied by a more-or-less heated debate on the talk page. ...upcoming {{w|Star Trek}} film at the time of the comic's posting). On the day before the comic was published, the article name had a lowercase "into", an

...l style typical of Questionable Content. But the art here is more in the [[xkcd]] style, showing only stick figures. ...a bench, reading a book. There is a tree. Far away, Cueball has a backpack on.]

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|826|original comic}}. ...s interactive. It will show images of the exhibits (see below) by clicking on them.

...ng}} is a sport where you have to find things hidden by other people based on geographical coordinates. Randall has had a similar idea before in [[201: C [https://geohashing.site/ Geohashing] is a sport created by Randall based on reaching a random location determined by an [https://geohashing.site/geohas

...Most functions of this form are random number ''generators'', meaning that on subsequent calls they return ''different'' random numbers. But the programm ...first number of a list is "4", and the second number is independent of the first, then that means the second number can also be "4" (as well as the 3rd and

In this case [[Cueball]] is in the process of replying on the computer to his friend who just asked if they should go out to eat some ...votey on [https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-07-02 July 2, 2009], the day after this comic was released.

| titletext = It'll be hilarious the first few times this happens. ...n other websites as well, the website owner can try to hack their accounts on other common sites, such as {{w|Amazon.com|Amazon}}, {{w|PayPal}} or even p

| titletext = Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest br ...rge/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on xkcd.

...e of its natural history, notice one day while building a huge sand castle on the beach that the sea level is starting to rise. They start a journey of e ...gon.net/projects/xkcd1190/ geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/]. The comic on xkcd.com today currently loops through the last five frames of the comic.

...Week]], just joking about other {{w|webcomics}}. This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday-Friday), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/ ...e shows Philippe's semi-imaginary run for president on a platform of hugs. On the wall behind him, there is an {{w|E chart}} - a special version of the e

...n> uic has the third best hash. See the full standings at http://almamater.xkcd.com/best.csv<br><br><span style="color:grey">Different title text:</span> T ...]. This comic isn't a static image - even the title text changes depending on which part of the image you're hovering over. It presented a competition fo

:[Megan is standing with her hand on Cueball's shoulder.] *This is the first comic posted on a Leap Day ({{w|February 29}}), which fell on a Friday in 2008.

...Week]], just joking about other {{w|webcomics}}. This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday-Friday), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/ ...of anxious protagonist Piro to creator Gallagher, who based the character on a twenty-something version of himself.

...Week]], just joking about other {{w|webcomics}}. This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday-Friday), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/ ...is particular example], where the title text actually refer to Randall and xkcd.

...{{w|Extremes on Earth|Earth's hottest}}: The hottest temperature recorded on earth is actually {{W|List_of_weather_records#Heat|"only" 56.7&nbsp;°C}}. ...&nbsp;°C, the user is incapable of closing their mouth after starting the first "fuck", and so extends it into one long one.

...xplainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=DRM&go=Go&title=Special%3ASearch many xkcd comics].) ...ie. And when we die, we always die alone - i.e. no one else can follow you on that last journey. And no matter how much you have collected (or earned) du

It's common for children to assume, on some level, that adults are all capable, even infallible, and have all the ...ve moved into the building where [[Megan]] lives, gets to know her and one day when he goes to see her, the events in that strip take place. From the titl

This comic is a commentary on people who dream, daydream, and wish for things to happen, commonly in a ro ...t=h&z=19 Reverend Thomas J. Williams Park in Cambridge, MA, USA]. The time on the note, September 23, 2007, was about six months ''after'' the publishing

...dimensional analysis. Stats are ballpark and vary wildly based on time of day and whether your mom is in town. .... In reality, more parameters must be taken into account, e.g. the time of day, since most people will have sex in the evening or night. The insulting{{ci

...to other dinosaurs in terms of anatomy. This relationship was pointed out on the [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6133/690 Science] journal the we ...om/index.php?comic=2420 strip] from the same day refers to Randall and ''[[xkcd]]''.

| titletext = I'm waiting for the day when, if you tell someone 'I'm from the internet', instead of laughing they *A larger version of the image is available [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities.png here].

...Week]], just joking about other {{w|webcomics}}. This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday-Friday), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/ ...title of the comic is written above, and this has here been replaced with xkcd.

...ng the colouring of every instance of the word "house" in blue, as is done on the menu. It includes footnotes within footnotes like Randall did here. Clicking on the original comic links to the amazon.com page for House of Leaves.

| titletext = Making out with yourself: now an official xkcd theme? Troubling. ...tend to be blind towards the staggering amount of possibilities that each day holds, with routine and boredom as a result. (See e.g. [[137: Dreams]] and

...Week]], just joking about other {{w|webcomics}}. This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday-Friday), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/ In similar style to their simple comics, we see xkcd's [[Cueball]] ask the two creators of the two comics what's funny. The woma

...of genetic engineering is always advancing, combining the body of a modern-day mammal with the tail of a dinosaur will remain a pipe dream for a long time ...ns of $10,000 or more will earn your name in a raffle for ownership of the first three giraffosauruses.'' This may also be a reference to [[1055: Kickstarte

...ion by 2019. The extrapolation of statistical data has appeared in various xkcd comics, e.g. in [[605: Extrapolating]], [[1007: Sustainable]], and [[1204: Since Lego is designed to resemble nature and civilization on a miniaturized scale, some sets also contain Lego cars as vehicles for the

| titletext = It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood! See a larger version of the comic here: [http://xkcd.com/1298/large/ http://xkcd.com/1298/large/].

A chat room like this must be hosted on some outside server, so the narrator of the comic wonders who runs this ser ...om this point on, the comic takes an {{w|existentialist}} turn (a frequent xkcd trait), talking about how life is short, everything has to end, etc.

...{what if|78|T-rex Calories}}''. Regular expressions have been mentioned on xkcd in [[:Category:Regex|many other comics]]. ...de I: The Phantom Menace'', the subtitle is ''The Phantom Menace''. In the first panel, she has created a 12-character regex solving the challenge.

| titletext = 'You see the same pattern all over. Take Detroit--' 'Hold on. Why do you know all these statistics offhand?' 'Oh, um, no idea. I definit ...Fahrenheit}} temperatures are very cold to be out in. See for instance the first panel of [[526: Converting to Metric]].

For example, statistically a child is born somewhere on the world approximately every 0.24 seconds, or four times per second. There ...tebooks.jsvine.com/reverse-engineering-xkcd-frequency/ Reverse Engineering xkcd's 'Frequency'].

| title = xkcd Phone 12 ...eleased, with the previous two being [[2000: xkcd Phone 2000]] and [[1889: xkcd Phone 6]].

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1350|original comic}}. ...er than normal (on Tuesday instead of Wednesday) to honor {{w|April Fools' Day}} of 2014.

...rt, check out my webcomic, <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.xkcd.com/ xkcd]</span></big>. [[File:frame.jpg|link=https://www.xkcd.com/]]

Signs like this normally show the distance to places on earth's surface. This sign also has an arrow pointing away from earth and t ...ing to by car or airplane. We think of 62&nbsp;miles as being an easy trip on the ground, but that same 62&nbsp;miles is incredibly hard when going verti

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1416|original comic}}. ...aradoxical nature of such a bottom is the proposition that the world rests on a semi-infinite stack of turtles.

..."phylum" is the second major taxonomic rank as is "phylum" the second item on the list in the comic. ...e order is taken from the page about the movie, but Sneezy is never no. 1. On the other page, which is listed alphabetically, he is no. 5.</ref>

...inferior product or idea. Taking things literally is a common theme in the xkcd comics. ...y, possibly a child to be adopted or a romantic interest. Curly-hair plans on saving enough money to have the person flown to her location from "half a w

| title = xkcd Phone 2 ...xkcd Phone 3]] was released just over half a year later. Like the previous xkcd phone, the advertisement features a useless tagline (very few people can us

...this comic refers to the common tradition of leaving milk and cookies out on Christmas Eve for Santa Claus. If one assumes that Santa eats even a small ...must be magic somehow. Megan is disgusted at the thought of Santa pooping on people's presents. An even more disgusting explanation is that the 'magic'

...ferences a twitter outage that took place on December 29, which was blamed on an [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/29/twitter-2015-date-bug ...:%m:%s", which looks like it should produce a date and time as "Year-Month-Day Hour:Minute:Second". However, he used the wrong tokens for this:

| titletext = Whoa, and if you overlay a Fibonacci spiral on a golden spiral it matches up almost perfectly! *The comic is a link to [https://xkcd.com/spiral/].

*A larger version of this image can be found [https://xkcd.com/1491/large/ here]. ...iences tend to forget that they were intended as historical fiction in the first place. If an old work is set in the past, it's often assumed that they were

{{comicsrow|2000|2018-05-30|xkcd Phone 2000|xkcd phone 2000.png}} {{comicsrow|1889|2017-09-13|xkcd Phone 6|xkcd phone 6.png}}

...ies" are mentioned and placed on the graph according to how weird they are on the x-axis and the y-axis indicates whether [[Randall]] has an explanation ...dia]]). And this mystery actually has an obvious explanation: Following up on an idea that eventually led to today's cartoon.

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1506|original comic}}. ...den]] scheduled for release Friday April 1st 2016, but in the end released on [[1663:_Garden#Monday_4th_of_April_release|Monday April 4th]] 2016.

...ont page of the comic is [[1506: xkcloud#Transcript|transcribed]] as usual on the [[1506: xkcloud|main page]]. ...ipt|front page]] (only part of the transcript written on the main page for xkcd), you will see either:

...t, a list that is revealed in the book. (It can also be found [https://www.xkcd.com/simplewriter/words.js here].) ...ong other things, computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit co

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1525|original comic}}. ...e provided through a window on one face that displays text phrases printed on a triangular shape as depicted in this comic. Vintage balls contained a die

...ly on similarities in their names. Various Internet groups have speculated on who would win in a fight between characters from different films. It may be ...g for some individuals (perhaps including [[Randall]]). The final grouping on the lower right of the bracket features a several retail stores and a film.

...rawing more seriously, gained a lot more readers, started selling t-shirts on the site, and am currently shipping t-shirts and drawing this comic full-ti ...s often along the same lines, but was almost never the same as the caption on LiveJournal.

*A full list of user names and user pictures are listed on [[1506: xkcloud]]. |[http://xkcd.com/1506/#post/56beedbe-fd8d-539d-b836-f2c919991980 f2c919991980]

...riter)|Andy Weir}}. The plot involves an astronaut who's accidentally left on {{w|Mars}} when the rest of his crew has to leave during a disaster. The ce ...dapter for a carbon dioxide scrubber, using only those materials available on the spacecraft. This task was critical to the astronauts' survival, if they

Six years to the day before this one, which according to this comic was the last time Ponytail h ====Note on Ponytail====

| title = xkcd Phone 3 ...one 2]] was released over half a year before this one and the next [[1707: xkcd Phone 4]] was released almost a year later. The phrase "We made another one

* The comic on xkcd is a link to [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-spacecraft-displays ...http://what-if.xkcd.com/137/ New Horizons]. Luckily it did not end up back on Earth, as depicted in [[1532: New Horizons]], released 1½ month before clo

...omic is a continuation of [[1253: Exoplanet Names]], and was published the day after NASA announced the discovery of a number of planets, including a plan ...rowspan = 2 | Weird ''{{w|blog}}''-related terms are a recurring theme in xkcd. See, for instance, [[181|comic 181]].

...comic [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] admire a majestic {{w|sky}} on a beautiful day. ...ly in color, adding to the feeling of awe and natural wonder. The lighting on the {{w|clouds}} and the night sky in the upper corner suggest that this is

...tive intelligence of several board-game-club players, and also capitalizes on the fact that members of such a club are likely very competitive and eager ...ion" cards which presumably reference certain deductions which are allowed on income tax returns to lower the net income (resulting in lower taxes). For

...ds, and the staff at Chuck E. Cheese's for all the times I called the cops on them. [[xkcd]] turns 10 years old on September 30, 2015 (a week after the release of this comic). In this comic

...eated based on it. The movie was officially released in the US on the same day this comic was released (October 2, 2015). ...Twilight (novel series)|Twilight book series}}). It was originally written on the internet by {{w|E. L. James}}. It was then transformed into a successfu

...l is a reference to {{w|The Terminator}}, a 1984 movie often referenced in xkcd. In the movie, the artificial intelligence named Skynet initiates a nuclear ...refers to main plot of the movie and its sequel {{w|Terminator 2: Judgment Day}}. As Skynet's army is losing the battle against the human Resistance movem

| title = XKCD Marks the Spot | titletext = World Polio Day XKCD comic

*The transcript will be based on what can be experienced by moving through the game without any cheating. **But it has been planned, (and details are mentioned), based on this [http://1101b.com/xkcd1608/ full drawing] that can be zoomed and navig

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

...s at the time of the comic's release). So if the capsule was opened on the day of the release of the comic, then he was 70 years too late. But of course t ...war in 1945 just before Hitler would have died anyway, so it had no effect on history either, and the time machine was a one shot thing.

...y are walking in between two trees while Ponytail tells Cueball that ''One day a year, the sun sets directly between these two trees.'' ..., which was released less than a week after the winter solstice which fell on 2015-12-22.

...[https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/five_minute_comics_part_4.png posted on imgs.xkcd.com] by the website management in place of [[940: Oversight]]. ...universe. Nothing to see here. Move along! -- Management||The [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/five_minute_comics_part_4.png original image link] now shows thi

...ut the meaning of the word 'hoverboard' is anyone who leaves that argument on foot. ...might have expected by now. (Another New Year comic followed on New Year's Day: [[1624: 2016]], making it two in a row with titles beginning with 2016...)

...n a row where Amazon is mentioned in the title text (next [[1626: Judgment Day]]). ...Self-driving cars are a [[:Category:Self-driving cars|recurring topic]] on xkcd.

| title = Judgment Day ...ily Amazon had recently built thousands of them to bring Amazon Prime same-day delivery to the Moon colony.

...chael E. Brown|Mike Brown}} and {{w|Konstantin Batygin}} published a paper on 2016-01-20, only two days before the release of this comic. The paper is ca ...ase ([[1632: Palindrome]]), this comic's release day was the first release day after the news came out. This explains why this comic was released in the l

...entially he is referring to a monitor on his phone that is giving him data on which he is deliberating. ...But this just takes Cueball back to the problem he failed to solve in the first place of choosing one scale in preference to the other, so suddenly he anno

...y the Sun?' I think that's a great question and you should totally ask it. On the infinite tree of possible conversations spread out before us, I think t This is the first comic in the [[:Category:Stargazing|Stargazing]] series. It was followed by

...the bowl of a giant blender, and we'll all just show up with a bucket each day to take our share of the resulting smoothie. ...diameter is the diameter Randall has calculated the pipe should be, based on his data for the consumption of these substances.

.... Typically this will begin with "This is your captain speaking..." and go on to describe the progress of the flight, expected arrival time and other inf ...e know how to access the Wi-Fi. This app was earlier referenced in [[1363: xkcd Phone]].

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1663|original comic}}. ...e out in 2017]], but first in 2018 when [[1975: Right Click]] was released on Sunday April 1st 2018.

...ots]] and [[#Saved image from xkcd|saved images]] downloaded directly from xkcd (without the lamps) for the interactive comic [[1663: Garden]] can be poste *From this [http://www.xkcd.com/#0d11a2c8-fa8f-11e5-8001-42010a8e000e garden]:

.../09/29/odd-temporal-milestones/ this xkcd blag post]. However, this is the first comic where the title is actually directly related to feeling old!). In eac ...fining event for an entire generation of Americans. This statement is made on the basis that the eligible {{w|voting age}} in the United States (the mini

...is embarrassed at this revelation. This time waste is a common subject on xkcd, as shown for instance in the comic mentioned above. ...be.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0 "Don't You Want Me"], that almost only uses the first line of the song).

...?term=blerp blerp]". Unix man pages are meant to provide a brief reference on the usage of a command, not extended explanations with tutorials as may be ...refers to {{w|BSD licenses}}, another [[:Category:BSD|recurring theme]] in xkcd. "Like Gecko" is a reference to a web browser user-agent string; modern use

...e research says. Everybody knows you should drink 3,000 glasses of water a day and change your oil every 8 miles. ...ly_consumption_of_drinking_water|common misconception}} of eight glasses a day, a number which is not supported by scientific research. [[Ponytail]] again

...this page: [[1000: 1000 Comics/Numbered images]]. I have now finished the first 646 characters, three legs into the 2nd zero, just missing the left part, b ...and/or alternate explanations might be necessary. I will continue to work on this page, but I think we've hit a big ''milestone'' in being able to remov

This comic presents a busy day in the clinic for doctor [[Ponytail]], who orders 50 CCs from a nurse (prob ...hose hiccup cures that never seems to work. What these techniques all rely on is that they all force one to hold one's breath, thus resetting the diaphra

...se every time you find one of their traps, you feel compelled to spend all day constructing a tiny model of Jabba's sail barge next to it. ...presents a table of 12 different types of volcano. Split into 3 rows, the first 4 are authentic types of volcano; while the remaining 8 are parodies, one n

| titletext = [After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before. ...CO₂ emission. This comic is a direct, but much more thorough, follow up on the previous global warming comic: [[1379: 4.5 Degrees]]. By having readers

...] because [[Randall]] noticed the extreme popularity of the previous comic on Monday: [[1732: Earth Temperature Timeline]]. Randall even explained this i ...s}} in the {{w|Sun}}. The frequencies of light that an atom absorbs depend on the exact arrangement of electron orbitals around it - because each element

| titletext = "I've noticed you physics people can be a little on the reductionist side." "That's ridiculous. Name ONE reductionist word I've In this comic [[Randall]] shows the first part of a dictionary entry on the word ''Reductionism''. In a real dictionary like [http://www.dictionary

| titletext = On the plus side, we definitely killed that cancer over there, even if we caus ...big, expensive, secret research and development project that produced the first {{w|nuclear weapons}} during {{w|World War II}}. Because of the unprecedent

...halfway around, I assume it's being eclipsed by one of those Independence Day ships and interpret the rest of the image in light of that. ...ay in its cycle from the New Moon, either one quarter of the way into it ("First" Quarter) or a quarter of the way from completing it ("Last" Quarter).

In this serious, ''no joke'', comic released the day before the {{w|2016 United States presidential election}} (which was more c It was the second time Randall referred to this election, the first being [[1748: Future Archaeology]] three weeks before the election, but her

...e your mouse or fingers to pan + zoom. To edit the map, submit your ballot on November 6th. *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2067|original comic}}.

...r humans but for tornadoes, a [[:Category:Tornadoes|recurring subject]] on xkcd. ...est floor of your home," "if in the open, take shelter in a ditch," and so on, see these examples: [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b3/ba/02/b3

...t and switch which has been [[:Category:Rickrolling|referred to often]] in xkcd. Since this was aimed at people who knew the song (from 1987) and were onli ...}}''. This seems to be a joke, as both this movie and the one it was based on are for adults, and the people this targets would only have been 9 when it

...ers, I frantically scribble over the labels and write 'NORMAL HOUSE STUFF' on all of them, which actually makes things worse. ...at's in them. Since he doesn't know what's in them, he writes silly things on the boxes as a joke. Some things are unusual/unlikely (e.g. sand, hydrants,

...rsion of the {{w|Droste effect}}), which would likely cause extreme strain on the resources of the machine running it. This strain is explained in [[676: ...the entire physical hardware, they only emulate the software stack sitting on top of the kernel. A containerization tool will have its own standard libra

...e gibberish text "FHFF,,,M,,,," could be due to the child randomly tapping on the screen, all without knowing what she was doing. ...ight know more than they let on. Cueball's suggestion of "keeping an eye" on his daughter suggests he is seriously considering the possibility that she

...for instance and allocating a specific amount of time like one hour every day to do so. It is unlikely that somebody would wait years to start the task o ...if someone has sent a reminder.) Cueball has possibly used this technique on a friend's request, but became remorseful after nine years.

Of the three items in Cueball's list of customizations only the first and half of the second seems like a real and relevant changes. At first he has programmed the computer so that hitting both shift keys simultaneous

...ining tilde (U+0303) modifier result in those letters having a tilde glyph on top (A&#x303;, O&#x303;, n&#x303;), and various emojis for people, such as ...f Liberty''' (&#x1F5FD;): Given the turbulent political climate in present-day America, this emoji might see a lot of use by opinionated folks.

...I make out my bracket at the season, and every year it's busted before the first game when I find out which teams are playing. ...d game means that a team is part of the "Elite Eight," who can win to move on to the "Final Four," and then to the championship game, where a winner is c

...published in the week before and during the {{w|solar eclipse}} occurring on Monday, {{w|Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017|August 21, 2017}} which was vi ...he labels are nonsense in this context. In effect, the comic is a new take on a common joke in which a person asks a scientist a question, the scientist

...or the landmasses were pushed too far apart. (Though by coding the drones on UTC, the drones would not need to change time zones, except for displaying ...orting the bombs when they exploded one hour early. Details explained e.g. on the [http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-38.html Darwin Awards] site.

| title = xkcd Phone 6 ...2000]] was released 8 and a half months later. This comic was released the day after Apple announced their new {{w|iPhone 8}} and the higher end {{w|iPhon

...ho look down on people who are unwilling to put in such effort. In typical xkcd fashion, the comic starts off somewhat realistic and escalates to absurdity ...d fat and oil on the surface. Although it may not be a problem to use soap on your seasoned cast iron pan, you should still {{w|Seasoning_(cookware)#Care

...f April 8, 2024|2024}}, we see them reminiscing the seven years before the first eclipse, leaving an open question to what the next seven years will bring. ...comics]] and directly continues [[1141: Two Years]], which is shown as the first eight panels, slightly grayed out. It later continued in [[2386: Ten Years]

...ly such comic released on the 22nd. In 2023 this was also the last release day before Christmas, but the earlier date was not specifically Christmas-theme ...on and self-reference is a [[:Category:Self-reference|recurring theme]] in xkcd.

...fter [[1932: The True Meaning of Christmas]]. It was released on Christmas Day in 2017 ...he title. Another fact comic was released six years later as the Christmas Day comic of 2023: [[2872: Hydrothermal Vents]]. Here it was an Ocean fact abou

| titletext = New zero-day vulnerability: In addition to rowhammer, it turns out lots of servers are v ...ews because they broke the "walls" between programs executing concurrently on the same computer, in some circumstances allowing malware to steal secrets

...arm to grasp the handle and open the door. It holds the door open for the first robot, then follows it through the doorway. ...xtremely useful when dealing with humans. [[Randall]] has [https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/ previously made the point] that a robot uprising would promptly fail

...nd must obey the laws of the road just as an AI must. Therefore, an attack on the road infrastructure could impact both AIs and humans. However, humans a :Cueball: What's to stop someone from painting fake lines on the road, or dropping a cutout of a pedestrian onto a highway, to make cars

...rth's spin will be carrying him backwards. Except at the poles, everything on Earth's surface is being rotated to the east, "toward" the rising Sun in th ...etween sidereal and ephemeris days). So, on the equator at sunrise, on the day of a March or September equinox, this spin, by itself, would take someone t

...ral AI has been a [[:Category:Artificial Intelligence|recurring theme]] on xkcd, and he has had opposing views to the Terminator vision also in [[1668: Sin ...obot apocalypse is no less alarming than our current reality. He then goes on to state that once the machines take over, he is not so much worried about

| titletext = If my country ever picks a new national flag, this is on my shortlist for designs to argue for, but I think in the end I'll go with ...lue puzzle piece.|The current puzzle piece. It may change colors depending on system running, but the light blue shade is used by default.]]

*A large version of the comic picture can be found [https://xkcd.com/1970/large/ here]. ...the adjacent ends must match in some way (usually by the number displayed on the touching ends). Randall's "name dominoes" shows a set of domino tiles w

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1975|original comic}}. ...release|Monday April 4th]] 2016. The next was [[2131: Emojidome]] released on Monday, April 1st, 2019.

[[:Category:Social interactions|Social awkwardness]] is a recurring theme in xkcd. Oftentimes [[Cueball]]/[[Randall]] will grossly overthink casual social in ...onversation is to gain some understanding of the other person; by focusing on the conversation ''itself'', Cueball is denying the very purpose of the int

...omic [[721: Flatland]], which was released on March 31, 2010, was still up on April 1st, 2010, but had in itself nothing to do with the Unix interface. T ...e> shows the next comic. It shows the error "Time travel mode not enabled" on the last comic (see <code>enable time travel</code>).

...= Plus, the photo was geotagged, my unlocked password manager was visible on the laptop, AND you could see my naked reflection in the dark part of the s .... At first this just seems like an innocuous and generic thing people post on social media, but then the caption gives us a sobering reminder (and punchl

...Wardrobe}}'' is a fantasy novel by British novelist {{w|C. S. Lewis}}, the first published and best known of seven novels in ''{{w|The Chronicles of Narnia} ...en Lewis wanted to come up with the perfect temptation for Edmund, he drew on his own childhood memories of a favorite rare and expensive treat--which wo

...n in 2007, but reached a peak in about April 2008 when, as an April fool's day prank, {{w|Youtube}} linked all its featured videos to ''Never Gonna Give Y The first reference to rickrolling in xkcd was in [[351: Trolling]] from 2007, where Astley himself was Rickrolled by

...ytizers are unexpectedly the ''least'' zealous of all the groups mentioned on this chart, despite being the origin of the term. ...ph moves from left to right, the issues at stake have less and less impact on the life of someone who “converts”, but the intensity and fervor of tho

| titletext = Mathematicians give a third answer on the vertical axis, "That question is poorly defined, but we have a sub-fiel ...d object (vertical axis) vs. how large (the size of) the studied object is on the horizontal axis.

...ct easily to each other, resulting in a situation very similar like in the first panel and restarting the "sandboxing cycle." For a related xkcd on cycles and security, see [[2677: Two Key System]].

...} and even the [[Design_of_xkcd.com#Header|header text]] at the top of the xkcd page had changed a few days before by showing a link to [https://www.vote.o ...is derived by the notion that the car itself is making these statements. (On an even more meta level, the comic could be interpreted as saying that the

...#Header_text|Header text]] of xkcd was also changed three times, including on the release days of both this and the previous comic, to help people go and ...considered a major criticism of things like {{w|First-past-the-post_voting|first past the post}} voting systems, media outlets will also contribute.

This comic plays on the similarity in name between missile silos, places where long range weapo {{w|Missile silos}} are often thought to be the first targeting priority in event of a nuclear strike, in hopes of preventing ret

...same category: Post stamps, collectible cards, painted dolls, wine, and so on. Just about anything can be collected, however, some things are collected m ...arily protected}} on March 14th, 2019, which expired three days later. The first addition of Yachts to this page was by a user named {{w|Special:Contributio

| titletext = Thank you to the xkcd April 1st volunteers/commentators, including @Chromakode, Kevin, @Aiiane, P *The comic is a link to a [https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_of_128.png image of the results].

...yboard}}s which were made for programmers and had several keys not present on standard QWERTY keyboards. XKeyboarCD is a play on xkcd, and keyboard. (XK eyboar CD)

[[File:xkcd_header.png|thumb|right|250px|The header segment on [[xkcd|xkcd.com]]]] :xkcd updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

...l suggest "amazing!" every time you type "totally" even if you actually go on to type "totally true" sometimes. ...onsidered private. (However, this method may produce outdated information. On June 29, 2019, typing in Google "Long live the revolution. Our next meeting

| date = July 22, 2019 <!-- It is listed as 22nd in the archive on xkcd, so even if it came out past midnight somewhere it was still 22nd somewhere ...is an important service and would probably always have staff active, even on holidays. For example, the NWS [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital

...mics|a Sunday]] (August 4th), becoming only the fifth comic to be released on a Sunday. ...com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update_2x.png 2x version]) was still on the xkcd image server after it had disappeared.

...It's the world's least useful self-help book.|[[Randall Munroe]]|[https://xkcd.com/how-to/ Source]}} ...an promoting it in the [[Header text|header text]] at the top of the comic on [[Header text#2019-02-06_-_How_to_book|February 2019]]. Since then, the hea

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2198|original comic}}. ...ease of [[Randall|Randall's]] new book, ''[[How To]]''. The comic is based on a chapter in the book.

...in types of images or by linking directly to pictures that can be uploaded on this page. To help facilitate a detailed explanation. ==Entire xkcd page with promotion==

| titletext = They actually showed up on the first scan by the first WiFi-capable device. ...s Toshiba. This is something you would expect in a city, but certainly not on a mountain top, hence the joke, that what produced these WiFi networks are

| titletext = Trust me, you don't want to get on the wrong side of the paramilitary enforcement arm of the International Ear ...grabs the pendulum, which causes the others to shout after him to stop. At first this would seemingly be for fear of ruining the delicate demonstration. How

[[Cueball]] is on his way to see the new ''[[:Category:Terminator|Terminator]]'' movie; ''{{w ...s that in his timeline he hadn't seen it but wished he had, making present-day Cueball exclaim that they should go see it together.

The day before this comic's publication was an {{w|election day}} throughout the {{w|United States}}, primarily for local and state issues ...1/5/20948376/new-york-election-results-ranked-choice-voting which passed]) on whether to use a different method, ranked choice voting (another name for i

...n (shown as the X in a circle at the top-right) is being shown to be right on track. Unfortunately, that report was hidden and not seen until much later, ...{{w|Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change|U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change}} released its [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ 2021 Ass

This comic indulges in some wordplay on the title of the 1988 animated movie ''{{w|The Land Before Time (franchise) ...line of the history of the universe from the {{w|Big Bang}} to the present day, with ''The Land Before Time'' placed at the point in the timeline where th

| titletext = Building codes in hurricane zones rely on studies of how easily flying debris can break residential windows. If you'r ...ses a [[:Category:Christmas|Christmas comic]] on the 25th or close to that day. Having one this early is thus different, and another Christmas related com

| titletext = There's some flexibility depending on your standards for measuring runtime and the various special editions. If y ...one else has thought about, but most likely fitting well with fans of both xkcd and ''Star Wars''.

...would be difficult to see (due to being above the horizon only during the day and a short period of twilight) or visit (spacecraft traveling inside Mercu ...odic "resurfacing" events where the entire crust is recycled by volcanism. On top of that, Venus was almost certainly hit by an enormous object, hard eno

...series of comics]] about the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}. With this comic also on that topic, all comics of that week were about the pandemic. This continued ...irs at a table. Hairbun is at the end of the table. All three have one arm on the table.]

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2288|original comic}}. ...e]] from Monday April 1, 2019. The next became [[2445: Checkbox]] released on Thursday April 1, 2021.

...of conversation, especially to complain that it is still light at times of day where you are used to it being dark out. [[Beret Guy]] comments that he fel ...icult to observe directly. Beret Guy claims that the Great Attractor pulls on him unusually hard, which could be another one of his [[:Category:Strange p

...''xkcd: volume 0'' is the first xkcd book! It features selections from the first 600 comics, including various author and fan favorites. It was lovingly ass ...[Randall Munroe]]|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100701115034/http://store.xkcd.com/ Source]}}

...Quibi}} paid service shut down, just 6 months after it opened, on the same day that this comic appeared. ...ifferent people or different views, or remain roughly stagnant from day to day (contrasted with other services that contain new posts nearly every second)

...ed States)|Election Day in the United States}} is on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. ...eferred to mnemonically as "fall back," with its springtime counterpart (a day of 23 hours) being "spring forward" as mentioned in [[1655: Doomsday Clock]

...six sided die rolling a 1". The probabilities are calculated from [https://xkcd.com/2379/sources/ these sources], as mentioned in the bottom left corner of ...uess the last four digits of someone's {{w|Social Security Number}} on the first try

* The comic image on xkcd links to [https://xkcd.com/2380/election_impact_score_sheet.pdf a printable version] This comic was published the day before {{w|Election day in the United States}} (November 3, 2020), which features a contentious {{w

...Georgia runoff elections, and to the Google Sheets SREs in the current run-on elections. ...t US presidential elections, which were "called" either on election day or on the morning following. A major reason for the delay in determining the resu

...ame Theory, your grade in that class will be based on how close your grade on this exam is to 80% of the average. ...to be vulnerable to assault ([[327: Exploits of a Mom|not the first time]] xkcd has made such a joke). In real life, students have attempted to change thei

...odels quickly, which makes sense because he spends all of his time working on new ones. ...umulative over time. This would be a recursive graph, a recurring theme on xkcd.

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2445|original comic}}. ...[[2601: Instructions]] released on Friday April 1, 2022 (a regular release day).

...everyday.com/eclipse photographed] and filmed by Destin from Smarter Every Day and can be seen in his video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepQoU4oek4&f ...- Argentina]. In this video there was only the moon eclipsing the sun, at first, but then [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk0MRxXqo9s&t=610s towards the e

| title = First Time Since Early 2020 This is yet another comic part of the [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] on the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}.

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...pear to be random, but the caption gives the punchline: it is a conference on things that seem like they shouldn't work but do. ...er technologies). Airships are a [[:Category:Airships|recurring theme]] on xkcd.

...asted 21 days and the last image appeared in the header text after the end on January 31, 2022. It was not a permanent part of the header, and was remove ...countdown in the top right corner of the [[Header text|header text]] on {{xkcd}}.

| titletext = CLARIFICATION: By 9/13, I mean September 13th, not the 9th day of Jancember, the cursed 13th month that exists between December and Januar ...]]'', based on his ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' blog and following his first what if book.

*This was the image originally used on the front of the main page. But that was changed as the countdown ended and ...this is of course not the case, but an effect of how the clock is overlaid on the image:

...ght Saving Time}}, a [[:Category:Daylight saving time|recurring theme]] on xkcd, has recently started (in the US, as of this comic's publication). At the t ...am, and then the median 9 am will become the real 9 am. This happens every day. As the title text points out, this would be chaotic and, to put it bluntly

...en it comes out 9/13, assuming we all make it past the spider situation(?) on Tuesday(?). ...re comic is a link to his [https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/ what if? 2] page on xkcd.

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2601|original comic}}. ...765: Escape Speed]] released on Friday April 19th, 2023 (a regular release day, but 18 days late).

...his post with a [[33: Self-reference|reference]] to both xkcd and explain xkcd: :"XKCD #2606 mentions ⍼ and its Explain XKCD entry cites this post"

...Beach) the black hole in V404 Cygni passes over you each day. On Christmas Day it will be directly overhead around 2pm. ...urse, this makes the 'under the stars' part of the remark redundant in the first place, because by this definition, sitting outside is always under the star

...][https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/01/14/google-spends-billions-on-buying-office-buildings-is-this-a-sign-of-the-post-pandemic-pushback-agains ...9/invisible_thread_attached_to_my_back_am_i_the/][https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/xs50yr/xkcd_2679_quantified_self/iqjcmbv/?context=3] See also [[10

...ires around 2 kWh per year] (assuming this is not otherwise an [[:Category:xkcd Phones|untypical phone]] in terms of power requirements), so this 12 kWh ba ...lf-discharge}} means that if this battery is lithium polymer, it will lose on average 5% of its charge per month, which totals to 46% lost each year. If

* To experience the interactivity, visit the [https://xkcd.com/2916/ original comic]. ...pril fools' comic was [[2765: Escape Speed]] from 2023, which was released on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. "Machine" has been updated multiple times in the

.... There is no 'joke' <em>per se</em>, just a wry (and serious) observation on the timeline of climate change, and our understanding of it. The fact in qu ...Swedish article, which dealt with carbon cycle over geological periods and first estimated annual global carbon emissions.

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2712|original comic}}. ..., many containing easter eggs alluding to the book What If? 2 and previous xkcd comics. The flight mechanics are Newtonian so the spaceship can use the gra

...ation. Please describe the planets only, not the objects that can be found on them. | To get here, launch from Beret Guy saying "Wow!" on the Starting Planet.

...ssile strike from the US on September 26th, 1983. [[2052: Stanislav Petrov Day]] For a related xkcd on security and software cycles, see [[2044: Sandboxing Cycle]].

...eople were injured and killed. So, a comic about 4th of July (Independence Day) celebrations where someone could have been hurt can be seen as in bad tast :Ponytail: Okay, first of all, no one was hurt...

...] and [[2671: Rotation]] was on the front page — the latter only for one day due to the Tuesday release). ...the [[#Table of questions in the flowchart|table below]] for explanations on the individual options in the flowchart.

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...gave presidential candidate Donald Trump the highest chance of success the day of the 2016 presidential election. On xkcd, he and his blog have mainly been referenced in the title text and usually

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

...des I've been working off the accumulated rotation from one long afternoon on a merry-go-round when I was eight. ...e calculates the net rotations each day and spins around at the end of the day to cancel this out. In this case, he would be spinning left 17 rotations to

| titletext = At first I thought I would need some gold or something to pay him, but then I realiz ...This result is considered to be the first theorem of graph theory and the first proof in the theory of networks[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/courses

...efore publishing the first ''what if?'' book, articles were posted weekly. On the blog, [[Randall Munroe]] discusses hypothetical physics questions submi ...This has become known as the [[Countdown in header text]], see all details on that page. Later he released a different countdown with comic [[2636: What

...placing it in a historical perspective &mdash; featuring the usual cast of xkcd in historical garb. White Hat (wearing a white boater) has seemingly just f ...nfluenced by the French spelling ("yaourt") and phonology). In the modern day, yogurt is enjoyed as a common food in most [[559: No Pun Intended|cultures

...ll counters this common pushback by admitting that he once spent an entire day trying to confirm the existence of a version of [[wikipedia:Cats_(2019_film ...nned, in part because of the unappealing design of its CGI cat characters. On March 18, 2020, Twitter user @jackwaz claimed a friend of a friend had been

...age group of where events that they remember fit into history; e.g., "The first moon landing was closer to the end of World War I than to today." ...ctic hydrogen was completely ionized, as it continues to be at the present day.

:[A rollercoaster with a duck sitting on it. At the middle of it there's a (hidden) entrance to the shaft. There's a ...you a thing or two about speed. Of course, you'd have to catch up to them first...

.... You can see a [https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://store.xkcd.com/ history of the site here]<br>If you can address this issue, please ''' ...|Comics with xkcd store products]], for a list of comics that was featured on merchandise and posters/t-shirts.''</noinclude>

...of them, initially quite real and accurate before heading into traditional xkcd fantasticality. ...thus eclipsing a square portion of the solar disk. It must be turned face-on to Earth (and Sun), as other orientations of a true cubic (or cuboid) objec