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xkcd: Photos
xkcd: Photos
I hate when people take photos of their meal instead of eating it, because there's nothing I love more than the sound of other people chewing.
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xkcd: Photos
xkcd: Infinite Scrolling
xkcd: Infinite Scrolling
Maybe we should give up on the whole idea of a 'back' button. 'Show me that thing I was looking at a moment ago' might just be too complicated an idea for the modern web.
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xkcd: Infinite Scrolling
xkcd: Undocumented Feature
xkcd: Undocumented Feature
And it doesn't pop up a box every time asking you to use your real name. In fact, there's no way to set your name at all. You just have to keep reminding people who you are.
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xkcd: Undocumented Feature
xkcd: Profile Info
xkcd: Profile Info
It's ok, they'll always let you opt out! Like they did with the YouTube real name profile thing.
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xkcd: Profile Info
xkcd: Mobile Marketing
xkcd: Mobile Marketing
We're firing you, but the online headline-writing division wants to hire you.
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xkcd: Mobile Marketing
xkcd: When You Assume
xkcd: When You Assume
You know what happens when you assert--you make an ass out of the emergency response team.
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xkcd: When You Assume
xkcd: Jump
xkcd: Jump
Or that I'm at least following the curve of the Earth around to land ...
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xkcd: Jump
xkcd: Cold
xkcd: Cold
'You see the same pattern all over. Take Detroit--' 'Hold on. Why do you know all these statistics offhand?' 'Oh, um, no idea. I definitely spend my evenings hanging out with friends, and not curating a REALLY NEAT database of temperature statistics. Because, pshh, who would want to do that, right? Also, snowfall records.'
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xkcd: Cold
xkcd: Android Girlfriend
xkcd: Android Girlfriend
Programming the sexbots to enjoy sex seemed a sensible move at the time, but we didn't realize the consequences of their developing fetishes.
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xkcd: Android Girlfriend
xkcd: Old Accounts
xkcd: Old Accounts
If you close an account while it's still friends with people, it contributes to database linkage accumulation slowdown, which is a major looming problem for web infrastructure and definitely not a thing I just made up.
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xkcd: Old Accounts
xkcd: Preferred Chat System
xkcd: Preferred Chat System
If you call my regular number, it just goes to my pager.
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xkcd: Preferred Chat System
xkcd: Exoplanet Names
xkcd: Exoplanet Names
If you have any ideas, I hear you can send them to iaupublic@iap.fr.
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xkcd: Exoplanet Names
xkcd: Increased Risk
xkcd: Increased Risk
You may point out that strictly speaking, you can use that statement to prove that all risks are tiny--to which I reply HOLY SHIT WATCH OUT FOR THAT DOG!
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xkcd: Increased Risk
xkcd: Sphere
xkcd: Sphere
This message brought to you by the Society of Astronomers Trapped on the Surface of a Sphere.
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xkcd: Sphere
xkcd: Pale Blue Dot
xkcd: Pale Blue Dot
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. There is no road out of this oblivion; we must embrace it. We must join with the darkness. Ba'al the Annihilator offers us no happiness, no answers, naught but the cold embrace of the void. To imagine any other end is delusion. We must give in to the will of Ba'al, for he will one day consume us and our world alike. I therefore call on Congress to fully fund space exploration, and to join with Ba'al, the Eate...
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xkcd: Pale Blue Dot
xkcd: Realistic Criteria
xkcd: Realistic Criteria
I'm leaning toward fifteen. There are a lot of them.
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xkcd: Realistic Criteria
xkcd: Pickup Artist
xkcd: Pickup Artist
Son, don't try to play 'make you feel bad' with the Michael Jordan of making you feel bad.
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xkcd: Pickup Artist
xkcd: A Hypochondriac's Nightmare
xkcd: A Hypochondriac's Nightmare
BUT WHAT IF I REASSURE MYSELF WITH A JOKE AND THEN DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE RASH AND IT TURNS OUT TO BE DEATH MITES AND I COULD HAVE CAUGHT IT
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xkcd: A Hypochondriac's Nightmare
xkcd: United Shapes
xkcd: United Shapes
That eggplant is in something of a flaccid state.
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xkcd: United Shapes
xkcd: Moria
xkcd: Moria
Someone should really bring them a ladder and remind them to build the Endless Stair *first* next time.
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xkcd: Moria
xkcd: Flying Cars
xkcd: Flying Cars
It's hard to fit in the backseat of my flying car with my android Realdoll when we're both wearing jetpacks.
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xkcd: Flying Cars
xkcd: Learning to Cook
xkcd: Learning to Cook
And yet I never stop thinking, 'sure, these ingredients cost more than a restaurant meal, but think how many meals I'll get out of them! Especially since each one will have leftovers!'
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xkcd: Learning to Cook