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1 | 1 | { "list": [ |
2 | | -{"month": "2", "num": 1800, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Chess Notation", "transcript": "", "alt": "I've decided to score all my conversations using chess win-loss notation. (??)", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chess_notation.png", "title": "Chess Notation", "day": "17"}, |
3 | | -{"month": "2", "num": 1801, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Decision Paralysis", "transcript": "", "alt": "Good point--making no decision is itself a decision. So that's a THIRD option I have to research!", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/decision_paralysis.png", "title": "Decision Paralysis", "day": "20"}, |
4 | | -{"month": "2", "num": 1802, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Phone", "transcript": "", "alt": "[*disables social networking accounts*] [*social isolation increases*] Wait, why does this ALSO feel bad?", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/phone.png", "title": "Phone", "day": "22"}, |
5 | | -{"month": "2", "num": 1803, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Location Reviews", "transcript": "", "alt": "Google and Yelp keep deleting my scathing reviews of the Mariana Trench, the Chernobyl reactor core, the jet stream, and the equator.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/location_reviews.png", "title": "Location Reviews", "day": "24"}, |
6 | | -{"month": "2", "num": 1804, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Video Content", "transcript": "", "alt": "\"So, like, sexy news videos?\" \"No, people have tried that--it's still just video content. We need to actually inform people THROUGH making out. I would call it 'Mouth Content,' but I think that's already the title of a Neil Cicierega album.\"", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/video_content.png", "title": "Video Content", "day": "27"}, |
7 | | -{"month": "3", "num": 1805, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Unpublished Discoveries", "transcript": "", "alt": "If you must know, I'm currently researching how to save this emailed tax form as a regular PDF so I can print and sign it. Our work isn't a lock for the Nobel, but we're in the running.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unpublished_discoveries.png", "title": "Unpublished Discoveries", "day": "1"}, |
8 | | -{"month": "3", "num": 1806, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Borrow Your Laptop", "transcript": "", "alt": "If used with software that could keep up, a scroll wheel mapped to send a stream of 'undo' and 'redo' events could be kind of cool.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/borrow_your_laptop.png", "title": "Borrow Your Laptop", "day": "3"}, |
9 | | -{"month": "3", "num": 1807, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Listening", "transcript": "", "alt": "Sure, you could just ask, but this also takes care of the host gift thing.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listening.png", "title": "Listening", "day": "6"}, |
10 | | -{"month": "3", "num": 1808, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Hacking", "transcript": "", "alt": "The dump also contains a list of millions of prime factors, a 0-day Tamagotchi exploit, and a technique for getting gcc and bash to execute arbitrary code.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hacking.png", "title": "Hacking", "day": "8"}, |
11 | | -{"month": "3", "num": 1809, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "xkcd Phone 5", "transcript": "", "alt": "The phone will be collected by the toll operators and mailed back to you within 4-6 weeks.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/xkcd_phone_5.png", "title": "xkcd Phone 5", "day": "10"}, |
12 | | -{"month": "3", "num": 1810, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Chat Systems", "transcript": "", "alt": "I'm one of the few Instagram users who connects solely through the Unix 'talk' gateway.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chat_systems.png", "title": "Chat Systems", "day": "13"}, |
13 | | -{"month": "3", "num": 1811, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Best-Tasting Colors", "transcript": "", "alt": "I recognize that chocolate is its own thing on which reasonable people may differ. Everything else here is objective fact.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/best_tasting_colors.png", "title": "Best-Tasting Colors", "day": "15"}, |
14 | 2 | {"month": "3", "num": 1812, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Onboarding", "transcript": "", "alt": "'So we just have a steady flow of metal piling up in our server room? Isn't that a problem?' 'Yeah, you should bring that up at our next bismuth meeting.'", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/onboarding.png", "title": "Onboarding", "day": "17"}, |
15 | 3 | {"month": "3", "num": 1813, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Vomiting Emoji", "transcript": "", "alt": "My favorite might be U+1F609 U+1F93F WINKING FACE VOMITING.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/vomiting_emoji.png", "title": "Vomiting Emoji", "day": "20"}, |
16 | 4 | {"month": "3", "num": 1814, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Color Pattern", "transcript": "", "alt": "\u266b When the spacing is tight / And the difference is slight / That's a moir\u00e9 \u266b", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/color_pattern.png", "title": "Color Pattern", "day": "22"}, |
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364 | 352 | {"month": "6", "num": 2162, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Literary Opinions", "transcript": "", "alt": "If I really focus, I can distinguish between John Steinbeck and John Updike, or between Gore Vidal and Vidal Sassoon, but not both at once.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/literary_opinions.png", "title": "Literary Opinions", "day": "12"}, |
365 | 353 | {"month": "6", "num": 2163, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Chernobyl", "transcript": "", "alt": "You know when you can't hear your speakers, and you keep turning various volume controls up higher and higher in confusion, and then someone hits the mute button and there's a deafening blast of sound? That's basically what happened at Chernobyl.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chernobyl.png", "title": "Chernobyl", "day": "14"}, |
366 | 354 | {"month": "6", "num": 2164, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Glacier", "transcript": "", "alt": "The Norwegian adaptation of The Sword in the Stone takes things in a weird direction.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/glacier.png", "title": "Glacier", "day": "17"}, |
367 | | -{"month": "6", "num": 2165, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Millennials", "transcript": "", "alt": "Ironically, I've been having these same arguments for at least a decade now. I thought we would have moved on by now, but somehow the snide complaints about millennials continue.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/millennials.png", "title": "Millennials", "day": "19"}] } |
| 355 | +{"month": "6", "num": 2165, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Millennials", "transcript": "", "alt": "Ironically, I've been having these same arguments for at least a decade now. I thought we would have moved on by now, but somehow the snide complaints about millennials continue.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/millennials.png", "title": "Millennials", "day": "19"}, |
| 356 | +{"month": "6", "num": 2166, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Stack", "transcript": "", "alt": "Gotta feel kind of bad for nation-state hackers who spend years implanting and cultivating some hardware exploit, only to discover the entire target database is already exposed to anyone with a web browser.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/stack.png", "title": "Stack", "day": "21"}, |
| 357 | +{"month": "6", "num": 2167, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Motivated Reasoning Olympics", "transcript": "", "alt": "[later] I can't believe how bad corruption has become, especially given that our league split off from the statewide one a month ago SPECIFICALLY to protest this kind of flagrantly biased judging.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/motivated_reasoning_olympics.png", "title": "Motivated Reasoning Olympics", "day": "24"}, |
| 358 | +{"month": "6", "num": 2168, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Reading in the Original", "transcript": "", "alt": "The articles are much shorter, but I assume that's because this version predates the merger with the Hawaiian text that created the modern Hawaiian-Greek hybrid wiki-pedia.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/reading_in_the_original.png", "title": "Reading in the Original", "day": "26"}, |
| 359 | +{"month": "6", "num": 2169, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Predictive Models", "transcript": "", "alt": "WE WILL ARREST THE REVOLUTION MEMBERS [AT THE JULY 28TH MEETING][tab] \"Cancel the meeting! Our cover is blown.\"", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/predictive_models.png", "title": "Predictive Models", "day": "28"}, |
| 360 | +{"month": "7", "num": 2170, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Coordinate Precision", "transcript": "", "alt": "40 digits: You are optimistic about our understanding of the nature of distance itself.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/coordinate_precision.png", "title": "Coordinate Precision", "day": "1"}, |
| 361 | +{"month": "7", "num": 2171, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Shadow Biosphere", "transcript": "", "alt": "The typical Shadow Biology Department is housed in a building coated in a thin layer of desert varnish which renders it invisible to normal-world university staff.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/shadow_biosphere.png", "title": "Shadow Biosphere", "day": "3"}, |
| 362 | +{"month": "7", "num": 2172, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Lunar Cycles", "transcript": "", "alt": "The Antikythera mechanism had a whole set of gears specifically to track the cyclic popularity of skinny jeans and low-rise waists.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lunar_cycles.png", "title": "Lunar Cycles", "day": "5"}, |
| 363 | +{"month": "7", "num": 2173, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Trained a Neural Net", "transcript": "", "alt": "It also works for anything you teach someone else to do. \"Oh yeah, I trained a pair of neural nets, Emily and Kevin, to respond to support tickets.\"", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/trained_a_neural_net.png", "title": "Trained a Neural Net", "day": "8"}, |
| 364 | +{"month": "7", "num": 2174, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "First News Memory", "transcript": "", "alt": "Psychology researchers say our 'flashbulb' memories of big events can be unreliable, but I clearly remember watching live on CNN as Challenger crashed into and destroyed the Berlin Wall.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/first_news_memory.png", "title": "First News Memory", "day": "10"}, |
| 365 | +{"month": "7", "num": 2175, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Flag Interpretation", "transcript": "", "alt": "When Salvador Dal\u00ed died, it took months to get all the flagpoles sufficiently melted.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/flag_interpretation.png", "title": "Flag Interpretation", "day": "12"}, |
| 366 | +{"month": "7", "num": 2176, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "How Hacking Works", "transcript": "", "alt": "If only somebody had warned them that the world would roll them like this.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_hacking_works.png", "title": "How Hacking Works", "day": "15"}, |
| 367 | +{"month": "7", "num": 2177, "link": "", "year": "2019", "news": "", "safe_title": "Gastroenterology", "transcript": "", "alt": "\"Mostly it means that I'm acutely aware that the kid one table over coughed as the server walked past with our food.\"", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/gastroenterology.png", "title": "Gastroenterology", "day": "17"}] } |
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