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xkcd.com : Klout

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Though please do confirm that it's actually *me* on Klout first, and not one of my friends trying to get me punched. The great thing about this douchebag deadman switch is that I will never dare trigger it.

xkcd.com : Felidae

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'Smilodon fatalis' narrowly edged out 'Tyrannosaurus rex' to win this year's Most Badass Latin Names competition, after edging out 'Dracorex hogwartsia' and 'Stygimoloch spinifer' (meaning 'horned dragon from the river of death') in the semifinals.

xkcd.com : Kickstarter

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If you pledge more than $50 you'll get on the VIP list and have first dibs on a slot on ANY of the pledge levels in the actual campaign.

xkcd.com : The bacon

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Normally pronounced 'THEH-buh-kon', I assume.

xkcd.com : Ten Thousand

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Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.

xkcd.com : Every Major’s Terrible

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Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'.

xkcd.com : Visited

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I hate when I read something like '... tension among the BASE jumpers nearly led to wingsuit combat ...', and I get excited because 'wingsuit combat' is underlined, only to find that it's just separate links to the 'wingsuit' and 'combat' articles.

xkcd.com : Forgot Algebra

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The only things you HAVE to know are how to make enough of a living to stay alive and how to get your taxes done. All the fun parts of life are optional.

xkcd.com : Bookshelf

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I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'

xkcd.com : Emotion

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Fortunately, the internet has a virtually inexhaustible supply of code that doesn't work and people who are wrong, which bodes well for a return to normalcy. [Note: Click to read context for the cancer comics. She's doing well.]

xkcd.com : Approximations

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Two tips: 1) 8675309 is not just prime, it's a twin prime, and 2) if you ever find yourself raising log(anything)^e or taking the pi-th root of anything, set down the marker and back away from the whiteboard; something has gone horribly wrong.

xkcd.com : Skynet

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'YOUR CLOTHES. GIVE THEM TO ME.' 'Shit, uh ... you are now breathing manually!' 'I AM ALWAYS BREATHING MANUALLY.'

xkcd.com : Constraints

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[title-text similarly alphabetized]

xkcd.com : Romney Quiz

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Charlie actually delivered the Medicare line almost verbatim in the 1971 movie's Fizzy Lifting Drink scene, but it was ultimately cut from the final release.

xkcd.com : Ablogalypse

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Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always 'repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs'.

xkcd.com : Never

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I'll never forget you--at least, the parts of you that were important red flags.

xkcd.com : Whites of Their Eyes

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Don't fire until you see through the fragile facade to the human being within.

xkcd.com : Lakes and Oceans

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James Cameron has said that he didn't know its song would be so beautiful. He didn't close the door in time. He's sorry.

xkcd.com : RuBisCO

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Bruce Schneier believes safewords are fundamentally insecure and recommends that you ask your partner to stop via public key signature.

xkcd.com : Fountain

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Implausible, did you say? Sorry, couldn't quite hear you from all the way up heeeeeeeeere!

xkcd.com : Umwelt

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Umwelt

xkcd.com : Reviews

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I plugged in this lamp and my dog went rigid, spoke a sentence of perfect Akkadian, and then was hurled sideways through the picture window. Even worse, it's one of those lamps where the switch is on the cord.

xkcd.com : Cadbury Eggs

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When they moved production from New Zealand to the UK and switched from the runny white centers to the thick, frosting-like filling, it got way harder to cook them scrambled.

xkcd.com : Share Buttons

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The only post to achieve perfect balance between the four was a hilarious joke about Mark Zuckerberg getting caught using a pseudonym to sneak past the TSA.

xkcd.com : Formal Logic

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Note that this implies you should NOT honk solely because I stopped for a pedestrian and you're behind me.