images [Comic] xkcd Thread

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

E?rendil will patrol the walls of night only until the sun reaches red giant stage, engulfing the Morning Star on his brow. Light and high beauty are passing things as well.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

The LINACs in the glasses frames can barely manage one MeV. You should've gone to the screening at CERN.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Fun fact: if you say this every time a professor does something to a complex-number equation that drops the imaginary part, they'll eventually move the class to another room and tell everyone else except you.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

It's not our fault we caught a group on their way home from a geography bee. And they taught us that Uzbekistan is one of the world's two doubly-landlocked countries!

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I hear that there are actual lyrics later on in Land of 1,000 Dances, but other than the occasional 'I said,' I've never listened long enough to hear any of them.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

In Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the same jump will get an athlete 0.25% higher (>1cm) than in London four years prior.

[kjordan2001]

Todays (has an f-bomb in it): Consecutive Vowels

But the windows! What if there's a voyuer watchi-- wait, now I'm turned on too.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

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!'

[revvo]

I hate how his flowcharts are always so true :pinch:

[brentaal]

Whoa, twenty-two in two hours!' 'Your site got twenty-two hundred hits in two hours?' 'No. Twenty-two. But still, that's like half the people on the internet!'

[Farstrider]

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

If you Huffman-coded all the 'random' things everyone on the internet has said over the years, you'd wind up with, like, 30 or 40 bytes *tops*

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Give a man a fish, or he will destroy the only existing vial of antidote.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

It's not hard when you have the same thought like 40 or 50 percent of the time.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Brains aside, I wonder how many poorly-written xkcd.com-parsing scripts will break on this title (or \\;;"\''{\<<[' this mouseover text."

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I call Rule 34 on The Secret House.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I heard the general anesthesia drugs can cause amnesia, so when I woke up mid-extraction I started taking notes on my hand so I'd remember things later. I managed 'AWAKE BUT EVERYTHING OK' before the dental assistant managed to find and confiscate all my pens.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished--and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I hear Steven Levitt is writing a book analyzing A.J. Jacobs' quest to spend a year reading everything Malcolm Gladwell ever wrote. The audiobook will be narrated by Robert Krulwich of Radiolab.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

It's hard to fit in the backseat of my flying car with my android Realdoll when we're both wearing jetpacks.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I think the IETF hit the right balance with the 128 bits thing. We can fit MAC addresses in a /64 subnet, and the nanobots will only be able to devour half the planet.

[ILikeTobacco]

If your gonna rip his work off his site, at least remember to get the quotes from the alt text.

[instant.human]

If your gonna rip his work off his site, at least remember to get the quotes from the alt text.

You do know what Spoilertags are, right? :-)

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

The Greeks long suspected this, but it wasn't until April 12th of 1882 that Ferdinand von Lindemann conclusively proved it when he constructed himself the most awesome birthday party possible and nobody showed up.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Birds are Aves, which is part of the clade Theropoda, which is in Saurischia, which is in Dinosauria. Those birds outside our windows are dinosaurs. We can clear out the rest of our brains because we now have the best fact.