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xkcd: Password Strength
xkcd: Password Strength
To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.
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xkcd: Password Strength
xkcd: 3D Printer
xkcd: 3D Printer
I just can't wait for the Better Homes and Gardens list of helpful tips for household reuse of sixteen-inch acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene phalluses.
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xkcd: 3D Printer
xkcd: Neutrinos
xkcd: Neutrinos
I can't speak to the paper's scientific merits, but it's really cool how on page 10 you can see that their reference GPS beacon is sensitive enough to pick up continential drift under the detector (interrupted halfway through by an earthquake).
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xkcd: Neutrinos
xkcd: Chin-Up Bar
xkcd: Chin-Up Bar
Those few who escaped found the emergency cutoff box disabled. The stampede lasted two hours and reached the bottom three times.
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xkcd: Chin-Up Bar
xkcd: 1 to 10
xkcd: 1 to 10
If you get an 11/100 on a CS test, but you claim it should be counted as a 'C', they'll probably decide you deserve the upgrade.
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xkcd: 1 to 10
xkcd: Lanes
xkcd: Lanes
Each quarter of the lanes from left to right correspond loosely to breast cancer stages one through four (at diagnosis).
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xkcd: Lanes
xkcd: Elements
xkcd: Elements
Of all the nations, the armies of the ununoctium-benders are probably the least intimidating. The xenon-benders come close, but their flickery signs are at least effective for propaganda.
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xkcd: Elements
xkcd: Dorm Poster
xkcd: Dorm Poster
I was going to record an album with that cover under the name "PINK FTFY", so it'd come after them on the store CD rack. But at this point music stores are just rooms where CDs are set out to age before they're thrown away, so probably nobody would see it.
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xkcd: Dorm Poster
xkcd: The Corliss Resolution
xkcd: The Corliss Resolution
And no avian society ever develops space travel because it's impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.
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xkcd: The Corliss Resolution
xkcd: Caroling
xkcd: Caroling
For a thousand generations we vowed never to forget how his soldiers feasted on our brother Stephen.
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xkcd: Caroling
xkcd: Speculation
xkcd: Speculation
'I was pretty good at skeet shooting, but was eventually kicked off the range for catching the clay pigeons in a net and dispatching them execution-style.'
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xkcd: Speculation
xkcd: Mimic Octopus
xkcd: Mimic Octopus
Even if the dictionaries are starting to give in, I refuse to accept 'octopi' as a word mainly because--I'm not making this up--there's a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Scott Card horror novel 'Lost Boys' which hinges on it being an incorrect pluralization.
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xkcd: Mimic Octopus
xkcd: Time Vulture
xkcd: Time Vulture
In a way, all vultures are Time Vultures; some just have more patience than others.
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xkcd: Time Vulture
xkcd: Milk
xkcd: Milk
It's not hard when you have the same thought like 40 or 50 percent of the time.
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xkcd: Milk
xkcd: Guest Week: Zach Weiner (SMBC)
xkcd: Guest Week: Zach Weiner (SMBC)
Guest comic by Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. When I was stressed out, Zach gave me a talk that was really encouraging and somehow involved nanobots.
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xkcd: Guest Week: Zach Weiner (SMBC)
xkcd: Mutual
xkcd: Mutual
A universe that needed someone to observe it in order to collapse it into existence would be a pretty sorry universe indeed.
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xkcd: Mutual
xkcd: Constructive
xkcd: Constructive
And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ... oh.
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xkcd: Constructive
xkcd: Tech Support
xkcd: Tech Support
I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that.
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xkcd: Tech Support
xkcd: Airfoil
xkcd: Airfoil
This is a fun explanation to prepare your kids for; it's common and totally wrong. Good lines include 'why does the air have to travel on both sides at the same time?' and 'I saw the Wright brothers plane and those wings were curved the same on the top and bottom!'
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xkcd: Airfoil
xkcd: Adjectives
xkcd: Adjectives
'Fucking ineffable' sounds like someone remembering how to do self-censorship halfway through a phrase.
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xkcd: Adjectives