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Friday, December 31, 2010

Audiophiles

For years, I took the wrong lesson from that Monster Cable experiment and only listened to my music through alligator-clipped coat hangers.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Serious

Not to be confused with Serious PuTTY, the Windows terminal client where everything is in Impact.
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Monday, December 27, 2010

Explorers

We're going to have to work together to get over our hangups if we're going to learn to move on Catan's hexagonal grid. It's bad enough that we lost our crew of pawns when we passed within firing range of Battleship.
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Friday, December 24, 2010

Incident

He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he's copied on /var/spool/mail/root, so be good for goodness' sake.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Coupon Code

This also guarantees he won't be one of the ones to get a bobcat.
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Monday, December 20, 2010

Sickness

At least, with p<0.05 confidence.
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Tree

Not only is that terrible in general, but you just KNOW Billy's going to open the root present first, and then everyone will have to wait while the heap is rebuilt.
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Christmas delivery from the xkcd store

Hey! This Sunday is the Christmas domestic shipping deadline for the
xkcd store. If you want a (US)
order to arrive by Christmas, Sunday the 19th will be your last day to
place it.

xkcd store items

The xkcd book was published by Breadpig, and their portion of the
profits are donated to various worthy projects. The sales so far have
funded the building of a school in Laos, which Alexis Ohanian (the founder of
BreadPig) and his cohort Christina Xu recently visited.
If you're stuck on a geeky present idea, Alexis has put together a geek
gift bundle at the Breadpig store. The Breadpig, xkcd, and reddit
stores are all run together, so you can mix and
match stuff from all of them in one order.

--Randall
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wikileaks

STUDENTS ARE CALLING PRESIDENT JOHNSON EN MASSE TO PROTEST THE BOMBING AND IT'S JAMMED THE WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD. COULD THEY COLLAPSE OUR CRITICAL PHONE SYSTEMS? HAS THE FIRST TELEPHONE WAR BEGUN? STAY TUNED FOR MORE ON THIS DANGEROUS NEW TECHNOLOGY.
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Convincing

And if you labeled your axes, I could tell you exactly how MUCH better.
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Tic-Tac-Toe

The only winning move is to play, perfectly, waiting for your opponent to make a mistake.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Weather Radar

Ever notice how there aren't as many thunderstorms now as there were when you were a kid? Much like 'the shuffle on my MP3 player has a bias', this is occasionally true but universally believed. Brains are so interesting!
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Monday, December 6, 2010

Genetic Analysis

There's still a chance you were conceived via IVF. But we've checked your mom's college yearbook photos, and whether or not she and your father had sex, it's clear that ... listen, I know this is hard for you.
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Friday, December 3, 2010

Arsenic-Based Life

According to a new paper published in the journal Science, reporters are unable to thrive in an arsenic-rich environment.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Positive Attitude

Having a positive attitude is almost tautologically good for your mental health, and extreme stress can hurt your immune system, but that doesn't mean you should feel like shit for feeling like shit.
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