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Size Venn Diagram
Monday March 11th, 2019 at 3:51 PM

xkcd.com
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Terms I'm going to start using: The Large Dipper, great potatoes, the Big Hadron Collider, and Large Orphan Annie.
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darth
2060 days ago
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Great potatoes!
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awilchak
2044 days ago
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wait. wow. whoa.
Brooklyn, New York
alt_text_bot
2060 days ago
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Terms I'm going to start using: The Large Dipper, great potatoes, the Big Hadron Collider, and Large Orphan Annie.

Here Is The Little Mermaid ‘Kiss the Girl’ Minor Key Cover You Didn’t Know You Wanted by David Malki
Tuesday June 21st, 2016 at 10:36 AM

Wondermark
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Here it is. (by Chase Holfelder)

Previously: Here Is The Soulful Acoustic Smash Mouth Cover You Didn’t Know You Wanted

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3053 days ago
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jlvanderzwan
3053 days ago
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"wondermark.com/kiss-the-minor-key/"

Err...

Patch
Wednesday May 25th, 2016 at 10:48 AM

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My optimizer uses content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeating the process until it compiles.
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darth
3080 days ago
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This... is horrifying.
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brico
3077 days ago
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Lololololo
Brooklyn, NY
satadru
3080 days ago
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!
New York, NY
Cthulhux
3080 days ago
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Looks like valid APL.
Fledermausland
Covarr
3080 days ago
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It also works on sandwiches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScWu7pG7r0
East Helena, MT
alt_text_bot
3080 days ago
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My optimizer uses content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeating the process until it compiles.

Mycology
Wednesday April 6th, 2016 at 3:32 PM

xkcd.com
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Conspiracy theory: There's no such thing as corn. Those fields you see are just the stalks of a fungus that's controlling our brains to make us want to spread it.
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darth
3129 days ago
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I am now afraid of corn
Brstrk
3128 days ago
Here's to hoping they don't corrupt the Children.
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jcherfas
3128 days ago
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I'm not sure how much Randall understands that corn - not huitlacoche - is what is controlling our brains.
2bithacker
3129 days ago
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Reminds me of a vault experiment in Fallout 3 New Vegas.
Greater Seattle Area
kazriko
3129 days ago
Or the entire Last of Us game.
alt_text_bot
3129 days ago
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Conspiracy theory: There's no such thing as corn. Those fields you see are just the stalks of a fungus that's controlling our brains to make us want to spread it.

Hardware Reductionism
Friday October 9th, 2015 at 11:32 PM

xkcd.com
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My MRI research shows a clear correlation between the size of the parietal lobe--the part of the brain that handles spatial reasoning--and enjoyment of 3D Doritos®.
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darth
3309 days ago
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Is all this talk about iPhones supposed to be ironic or what?
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Repton
3309 days ago
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Yeah, long press doesn't work on my 6S.
Covarr
3309 days ago
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Alt text: My MRI research shows a clear correlation between the size of the parietal lobe--the part of the brain that handles spatial reasoning--and enjoyment of 3D Doritos®.
East Helena, MT
cbenard
3309 days ago
You don't need to do that anymore. You can just hover on the desktop now, and you can long-press on mobile.
Covarr
3309 days ago
Oh, cool, that's good to know.
Cthulhux
3309 days ago
You can't long-press in News+. OTOH, you can't see the comments in News+...
cbenard
3309 days ago
I use the official apps.
Cthulhux
3309 days ago
Not everyone does.
acdha
3309 days ago
Also that feature used to work in the official iOS app but is broken currently
samuel
3309 days ago
Wait, what? It is?
samuel
3309 days ago
Looks like it works fine in the latest beta. I don't have the old app to check, but it will definitely work when this beta gets released.
samuel
3309 days ago
Also, for the record, I like folks who share the Alt Text. It gives a place to just talk about the alt text, which for a comic as popular and single-paneled as XKCD, is a nice benefit.
acdha
3309 days ago
@samuel: looks to be hardware specific. On my iPhone 6S+ long presses on images do nothing – the menu never displays (I tried with and without 3D Touch enabled) — but after powering up my old iPhone 4S, I confirmed that the same version of the app works there. Both devices are running iOS 9.0.2.
CaffieneKitty
3309 days ago
THANK YOU! I check my feed on my old iPhone and there is no way to see the alt text at all, even directly on the site. I really appreciate you doing this!
cbenard
3306 days ago
They are right. It's broken on my 6S as well. Long press no longer works.
JayM
3309 days ago
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Ha!
Atlanta, GA
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3309 days ago
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My MRI research shows a clear correlation between the size of the parietal lobe--the part of the brain that handles spatial reasoning--and enjoyment of 3D Doritos®.

Hemingway
Friday June 19th, 2015 at 5:42 PM

xkcd.com
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Instead of bobcat, package contained chair.
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darth
3421 days ago
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-1 for broken HTML, +4107 for title-text
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tdwiegand
3420 days ago
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Baby-sized saddle, Bobcat got me.
Berkeley, California
Lythimus
3421 days ago
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Wow. I love the BuzzFeed and the Wiki version.
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3421 days ago
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Instead of bobcat, package contained chair.
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