xkcd

#xkcd No. 2927
Date: 2024-5-1
Title: Alphabetical Cartogram
Alt text: Poor Weeoming.
https://xkcd.com/2927/

#xkcd No. 2928
Date: 2024-5-3
Title: Software Testing Day
Alt text: The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.
https://xkcd.com/2928/

#xkcd No. 2926
Date: 2024-4-29
Title: Doppler Effect
Alt text: The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.
https://xkcd.com/2926/

#xkcd No. 2930
Date: 2024-5-8
Title: Google Solar Cycle
Alt text: From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.
https://xkcd.com/2930/

#xkcd No. 2933
Date: 2024-5-15
Title: Elementary Physics Paths
Alt text: ==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'
https://xkcd.com/2933/

#xkcd No. 2931
Date: 2024-5-10
Title: Chasing
Alt text: Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.
https://xkcd.com/2931/

#xkcd No. 2929
Date: 2024-5-6
Title: Good and Bad Ideas
Alt text: While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
https://xkcd.com/2929/

#xkcd No. 2932
Date: 2024-5-13
Title: Driving PSA
Alt text: This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.
https://xkcd.com/2932/

#xkcd No. 2935
Date: 2024-5-20
Title: Ocean Loop
Alt text: I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.
https://xkcd.com/2935/

#xkcd No. 2938
Date: 2024-5-27
Title: Local Group
Alt text: Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.
https://xkcd.com/2938/

#xkcd No. 2936
Date: 2024-5-22
Title: Exponential Growth
Alt text: Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.
https://xkcd.com/2936/

#xkcd No. 2939
Date: 2024-5-29
Title: Complexity Analysis
Alt text: PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.
https://xkcd.com/2939/

#xkcd No. 2937
Date: 2024-5-24
Title: Room Code
Alt text: Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.
https://xkcd.com/2937/

#xkcd No. 2940
Date: 2024-5-31
Title: Modes of Transportation
Alt text: My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.
https://xkcd.com/2940/

#xkcd No. 2947
Date: 2024-6-17
Title: Pascal's Wager Triangle
Alt text: In contrast to Pascal's Wager Triangle, Pascal's Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in case.
https://xkcd.com/2947/

#xkcd No. 2944
Date: 2024-6-10
Title: Magnet Fishing
Alt text: The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.
https://xkcd.com/2944/

#xkcd No. 2942
Date: 2024-6-5
Title: Fluid Speech
Alt text: Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
https://xkcd.com/2942/

#xkcd No. 2945
Date: 2024-6-12
Title: Broken Model
Alt text: In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.
https://xkcd.com/2945/

#xkcd No. 2943
Date: 2024-6-7
Title: Unsolved Chemistry Problems
Alt text: I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.
https://xkcd.com/2943/

#xkcd No. 2946
Date: 2024-6-14
Title: 1.2 Kilofives
Alt text: 'Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.'
https://xkcd.com/2946/

#xkcd No. 2948
Date: 2024-6-19
Title: Electric vs Gas
Alt text: An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
https://xkcd.com/2948/

#xkcd No. 2952
Date: 2024-6-28
Title: Routine Maintenance
Alt text: The worst was the time they accidentally held the can upside down and froze all the Earth's magma chambers solid.
https://xkcd.com/2952/

#xkcd No. 2955
Date: 2024-7-5
Title: Pole Vault
Alt text: Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with javelin.
https://xkcd.com/2955/

#xkcd No. 2949
Date: 2024-6-21
Title: Network Configuration
Alt text: If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.
https://xkcd.com/2949/

#xkcd No. 2951
Date: 2024-6-26
Title: Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas
Alt text: Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.
https://xkcd.com/2951/