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1416: Pixels

2014-09-03T08:18:17Z

108.162.227.35:

{{comic
| number = 1416
| date = September 3, 2014
| title = Pixels
| image = pixels.png
| titletext =
}}

==Explanation==

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When the cursor is placed inside the field of the comic and the viewer scrolls down, the picture zooms in until the pixels are visible. Each pixel then resolves into another comic, with black-on-white comic panels making up the white spaces and white-on-black panels making up the black spaces. This is repeated for this and all subsequent sets of comic panels. Not all white and all black panels are the same; some sets involve more than two different panels, but all involve repetitive tiling. The first comic panel, of Cueball stacking turtles, is a reference to the idiom "turtles all the way down," which refers to the problem of infinite regression: if everything in the universe is "on top of" something else, so to speak, there must be a "bottom." A joking solution to the paradoxical nature of such a bottom is the proposition that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down the world rests on a semi-infinite stack of turtles].

==Transcript==
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==Bugs==
Doesn't seem to work properly in all browsers (e.g. Firefox and Safari on MacOSX), giving "TypeError: this.data is null" in line 173 of zoom.js: "var item = this.data.get(dims)"
Doesn't seem to work in IE8, comic is blank, but title text works.

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[[Category:Dynamic comics]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

Talk:1400: D.B. Cooper

2014-07-28T12:15:26Z

108.162.227.35: Created page with "Feels like a conspiracy(?) ~~~~"

Feels like a conspiracy(?) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.227.35|108.162.227.35]] 12:15, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

1338: Land Mammals

2014-03-05T06:36:14Z

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{{comic
| number = 1338
| date = March 5, 2014
| title = Land Mammals
| image = land_mammals.png
| titletext = Bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one--and that's not even counting the several pounds of them in your body.
}}

==Explanation==
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This comic shows the domination of mankind over the earth. Only in the last century or so have humans, and their pets and livestock, come to occupy such a great proportion of the earth's land mammal mass.

==Transcript==
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Earth's Land Mammals by weight
(Each block) = 1,000,000 tons
(dark gray) Humans
(light gray) Our pets and livestock
(greenish gray) wild animals

Labelled animals: pigs, goats, sheep, horses, elephants, cattle

Title text: Bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one--and that's not even counting the several pounds of them in your body.

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