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| titletext = If you pledge more than $50 you'll get on the VIP list and have first dibs on ...as low as $10. Funding at different levels gets you different perks, e.g. If the Kickstarter is for a book, a large donation makes you eligible for a si

...be happy to set it on fire again so you can take another crack at getting that shot. ...er that she should buy a better camera. But at least here they acknowledge that the car is on fire, as they suggest she uses the insurance money (from the

| titletext = I wish I knew how to quit this so I wouldn't have to quit you. For two text lines to have the same length, it's easier if they are in a monospaced font. For example, the following sentences are the

...I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun. ...ircuit only half an ohm since you have a conductivity (inverse resistance) that is the sum of the conductivities of the path (1 ohm of resistance is 1/1 {{

...the [http://xkcd.com/804/info.0.json official transcript] the interviewer that talks in three of the panels is called an Interlocutor: "a person who takes ...ally carving an image of a pumpkin in his pumpkin. This means his answer, "I carved a pumpkin," could apply to either the image or the medium of his art

| titletext = If you're not cool enough to do it manually, you can look up tools like Upside ...claim that infringement of copyright may not have been the homeowner, but that anybody could have connected to the access point and started downloading fi

...guy whether they'd broken RSA. And I know I can trust him, because I asked if he was lying to me and he said no. ...we know, he has not penetrated any government networks, so helping [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts|Elaine]] physically

...jargon. The comic is narrated by [[Cueball]] as seen in part 2 comic, but that Cueball is not shown here, but still he is part of this comic series, and t ...us part, he came to the rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elai

...and dangers to humans, many people were concerned about the virus in ways that weren't going to be threats. This comic pokes a bit of fun at the overreact ...e else) seems to have created Twitter accounts for all referenced handles (that may not have already existed). Some of the handles continue their interacti

...one talking, and the other is his friend) about cancer, presumably cancer that [[Megan]] has been diagnosed with. The conversation itself is about as stra ...um of Cueball's mental representation of how cancer treatment proceeds. In that there are many possible outcomes for cancer treatment, the image of a multi

| titletext = Three headstones down, I got a call from my mom and it went from bad to worse. :...the person insisting on a font that was not sans-serif, but the results were typographically unappealing.

...valid use of the word, many people object to this usage. It is noteworthy that these dictionaries try to catalog how words are used, not whether any one u ...ch point a crazy man off-panel loudly corrects him. The crazy man declares that he has been stalking Cueball for eighteen years since an incident in sevent

...ld make anything... but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.) ...wful our state of the art technologies truly were in 1996, we are reminded that some technologies have remained in relative stasis over the years.

...d as Hz, and since f = 1/T, with ''T'' measured in seconds (s), it follows that 1 Hz = 1 s^−1. ...un to make your head hertz. And if she had not been in such terrible pains that she cannot even get up, she would have smacked Cueball for it, which would

| titletext = Yet one more reason I'm barred from speaking at crypto conferences. ...chosen to abbreviate to A and B, as well as being of different genders so that they can be distinguished by pronouns alone.)

...cy theorist. I'm sure I must be up to something, and I will not stop until I find out what. ...nything about the society. His belief in the existence of the society, and that he is a part of it, stem from one contact with an 'agent'. Most people woul

| titletext = And if you labeled your axes, I could tell you exactly how MUCH better. ...abeled "Crappiness of Relationship" or "Unawesomeness of Relationship". In that case, a downward trend would be a positive thing.

...five tries to find the right one, but I managed to salvage our night out--if not the boat--in the end. ...in the first place, or maybe even take the effort to design an {{w|ASIC}} that can drive the peripheral instead.

| titletext = If you get your hands on that one, it's the worst place to have a breaking-up conversation. ...is a hypothesis, called the {{w|critical period hypothesis}}, which states that you can only learn a language fluently before a certain age.

...ackexchange.com/questions/2795/is-the-ballmer-peak-real get the impression that], by being a little disconnected from physical reality, they become more ef ...ior in public (with some videos gone viral), which can give the impression that he is constantly intoxicated.

...n each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at random. I knew enough not to ask. ...eb page reformatted as a Word document, then sends that email to a service that extracts YouTube videos. Perhaps this service would then email back a link

...discover that the Straits of Gibraltar have once again been breached, and that the Mediterranean Basin is being flooded. They run back to their home, asse ...ne frame later to just "RUN.". At approximately 2944, when Megan announces that it is too late to escape overland, the title text changed back to "...". On

...truth about our place in the universe. I'm supposed to care about college? I mean, FUCK. ...ill think them a bit crazy. If they don't tell anyone, they are pretending that the episode never happened. Either way, it seems this would not be an enjoy

...king like Cueball, gives them a description of the humble {{w|cuttlefish}} that is both accurate and makes them sound like other-worldly creatures with hig The scene takes an unusual turn when the scientist implies that the cuttlefish have been easily trained to improve their capabilities. He t

...all, I give this year a C-. There were no aurora visible from my house and that comet evaporated. They'd better not cancel the 2017 eclipse. ...of the review when she notices the sky clearing up, as she wishes to check if there are any northern light this evening. This may very well be [[Randall|

| titletext = Let me just scroll down and check behind that rock. Annnnd... nope, page copyright year starts with '19'. Oh God, is this ...searching algorithms are widely regarded as the most accurate and useful. If your search terms were sufficiently detailed, you will be able to find what

...s. What right do we have to poke around in Facebook's private affairs like that? ...sj.com/articles/facebook-experiments-had-few-limits-1404344378 such as one that tested security measures by locking users out of their accounts].

...luggage off the airport conveyer belt and leave with it. They don't check that it's yours at the door! ...act that Cueball is trying to discuss his findings with the agent suggests that he's trying to prevent it from happening, rather than planning to do it him

...t = I honestly didn't think you could even USE emoji in variable names. Or that there were so many different crying ones. ...k at some {{w|source code}} [[Cueball]] has written, and he is warning her that he is self-taught so his code probably won't be written the way she is used

*It is uncertain if the user name and user picture remain constant, as these have changed in th |I found a three fingered kitten!

...the club into preparing his {{w|income tax}} return. The caption indicates that Cueball does this every year, which makes this comic reminiscent of the [[: ...fessionals to prepare their taxes. More recently, software-based solutions that walk the user through a series of more understandable text-based questions

...ext stand out clearly this has been indented twice to make it easy to spot if scrolling down. ...ls are mentioned), based on this [http://1101b.com/xkcd1608/ full drawing] that can be zoomed and navigated, including revealing secret passages and displa

| titletext = Look, recipe, if I knew how much was gonna taste good, I wouldn't need you. ...inded. [[Cueball]] expects a recipe to provide instructions precise enough that by following them carefully, a cook can create a dish exactly as the recipe

...oplane doesn't land on water--that's an aquaplane. A hydroplane is a plane that gets electric power from an onboard water reservoir with a tiny dam and tur ...ble to tell what type of plane it is, and may be rather proud of the fact, if they can tell this before one of the other spotters.

...g 'Juneau'. A gravity assist seemed like a weird way to get to Alaska, but I figured it must be more efficient or something." It was reported on the day of this comic's release that Juno arrived at its orbit [http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/20

...) proofs. She claims no, but in a matter of seconds Cueball is calling out that he was right. ...the function that correlates to co-ordinates (x, y), Miss Lenhart assumes that the ''act of writing numbers on the board'' will correlate to co-ordinates

...as the first in a [[:Category:Time traveling Sphere|series]] of two comics that continued in the next release [[1748: Future Archaeology]] on Wednesday. Bo ...fact that we knew about spiders' webs in advance, it would be hard to say if we would have made the connection from the amber fossils. The Sphere is thu

...his, make a note of how old they were. Then, when their age reaches double that, show them this chart again. ...ened, so the revelation will usually come as a shock and make them realize that things they think of as new and modern are actually a lot older than they t

...hat Randall is apparently terrible at remembering states by heart, or else that he interpreted "name" as "give a name to" and is giving each state a name s ...e state of Texas (identity) is named Hexxus (label)", though you can argue that "Texas" is also a label.

...ug in my security key. Hmm, which way does the USB go? Nope, not that way. I'll just flip it and-- OH JEEZ IT FELL INTO THE VENT. ...rnor-password-trnd/index.html it was revealed] that the governor of Hawaii knew the alert was a false alarm only two minutes after it was sent, but couldn'

...was a bracket, referencing {{w|March Madness}}. The {{w|2019 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament|2019 version}} of the {{w|National Collegiate A ...f minute (e.g., "2 minutes" changed to "1 minute" at 1 minute 30 seconds). If the time remaining was less than a minute, the time was shown in seconds (e

| titletext = I love Brussels Sprouts Mandela Effect; I saw them open for Correct Horse Battery Staple. ..., which taste less bitter than the "original" cultivar of Brussels sprouts that Cueball grew up eating. (A [https://npr.org/773457637 source] is provided i

...her pollsters complain about declining response rates, but our poll showed that 96% of respondents would be 'somewhat likely' or 'very likely' to agree to ...acious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-to-Common-Folk "real people"] to get at that ground truth.

...likely than the other to occur, then the first event WILL occur; or, that if one names two or more outcomes they are equally likely to occur when in fac ...s a 70% probability of happening" sometimes misleads people into believing that event A is inevitable, while in fact 3 times out of 10 event A will not hap

| titletext = Who knew you could learn so much about sexual reproduction from looking at pictures ...r, such as the Office Space [https://imgflip.com/meme/That-Would-Be-Great "that would be great"] memes.

...r text]] was changed to the [[Header text#2022-01-31_-_What_if.3F_2|''What If? 2'' promotion]]. ...down to the reveal of Randall's new book [https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/ what if? 2] which was announced at the end of the countdown.

...with the interrupted speech. In cases like this, the listener might think that the driving instructions are part of their podcast. ...oman said to her before she left with the money, which might have revealed if it had been planned in advance, the GPS instructions interrupts and deliver

...rouble with the king or be remembered by history as a weirdo. I wonder how I could ... EUREKA!" ...the streets of Syracuse shouting "{{w|Eureka (word)|eureka}}!", Greek for "I have found it!" - a word now associated with sudden insights.

...that's not really color--it's just an admission by 20th century physicists that numbers are boring. ...uanta of energy changes involved in generating the broad spectrum of light that the substance formed of the atom(s) may be seen by. Also protons are far "b

:Cueball: Apparently there's a solar flare that's causing some Great Aurorae. CBC says they may even be visible here! Wanna :Megan: I found a snake, but then I forgot to stop.