xkcd

#xkcd No. 2961
Date: 2024-7-19
Title: CrowdStrike
Alt text: We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.
https://xkcd.com/2961/

#xkcd No. 2958
Date: 2024-7-12
Title: Hatchery
Alt text: Anadromous fish are more vulnerable in rivers, since the lack of salt means you can quickly crack passwords using rainbow trout tables.
https://xkcd.com/2958/

#xkcd No. 2979
Date: 2024-8-30
Title: Sky Alarm
Alt text: During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets.
https://xkcd.com/2979/

#xkcd No. 2976
Date: 2024-8-23
Title: Time Traveler Causes of Death
Alt text: Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.
https://xkcd.com/2976/

#xkcd No. 2981
Date: 2024-9-4
Title: Slingshots
Alt text: In my reboot, Dennis the Menace was just trying to send Mr. Wilson a nice comet, but accidentally wiped out his dinosaur garden.
https://xkcd.com/2981/

#xkcd No. 2977
Date: 2024-8-26
Title: Three Kinds of Research
Alt text: The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'
https://xkcd.com/2977/

#xkcd No. 2980
Date: 2024-9-2
Title: Lava Lakes
Alt text: Hey, golf balls float on lava, so this should make recovering them from the hazards easier.
https://xkcd.com/2980/

#xkcd No. 3107
Date: 2025-6-25
Title: Weather Balloons
Alt text: Once you add the balloons into the model, it makes forecasting easier overall--the forecast is always 'cold and dark, with minimal solar-driven convection.'
https://xkcd.com/3107/

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#xkcd No. 2978
Date: 2024-8-28
Title: Stranded
Alt text: At least they're not alone down there.
https://xkcd.com/2978/

#xkcd No. 2983
Date: 2024-9-9
Title: Monocaster
Alt text: My competitors say the tiny single tiny caster is unsafe, unstable, and offers no advantages over traditional designs, to which I say: wow, why are you guys so mean? I thought we were friends!
https://xkcd.com/2983/

#xkcd No. 2988
Date: 2024-9-20
Title: Maslow's Pyramid
Alt text: The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.
https://xkcd.com/2988/

#xkcd No. 2984
Date: 2024-9-11
Title: Asteroid News
Alt text: Their calculations show it will 'pass within the distance of the moon' but that it 'will not hit the moon, so what's the point?'
https://xkcd.com/2984/

#xkcd No. 3071
Date: 2025-4-2
Title: Decay Chain
Alt text: If you have an old phone in a drawer, and you listen very carefully, you can occasionally hear the occasional tap of an emitted SIM card hitting the side of the drawer as the phone transmutes to a lower-end model.
https://xkcd.com/3071/

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#xkcd No. 2985
Date: 2024-9-13
Title: Craters
Alt text: It's annoying that the Nastapoka Arc isn't a meteor impact crater, but I truly believe that--with enough time, effort, and determination--we could make it one.
https://xkcd.com/2985/

#xkcd No. 2989
Date: 2024-9-23
Title: Physics Lab Thermostat
Alt text: Hopefully the HVAC people set it to only affect the AIR in the room.
https://xkcd.com/2989/

#xkcd No. 2991
Date: 2024-9-27
Title: Beamsplitters
Alt text: Under quantum tax law, photons sent through a beamsplitter don't actually choose which path they took, or incur a tax burden, until their wavefunction collapses when the power is sold.
https://xkcd.com/2991/

#xkcd No. 2993
Date: 2024-10-2
Title: Ingredients
Alt text: Add main-belt asteroids to taste.
https://xkcd.com/2993/

#xkcd No. 2992
Date: 2024-9-30
Title: UK Coal
Alt text: The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s.
https://xkcd.com/2992/

#xkcd No. 2997
Date: 2024-10-11
Title: Solar Protons
Alt text: If any of you want to meet some cool local oxygen atoms, I can introduce you!
https://xkcd.com/2997/

#xkcd No. 2995
Date: 2024-10-7
Title: University Commas
Alt text: The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.
https://xkcd.com/2995/

#xkcd No. 3002
Date: 2024-10-23
Title: RNAWorld
Alt text: Disney lore: Canonically, because of how Elsa's abiogenesis powers work, Olaf is an RNA-only organism.
https://xkcd.com/3002/

#xkcd No. 3003
Date: 2024-10-25
Title: Sandwich Helix
Alt text: The number one rule of string manipulation is that you’ve got to specify your encodings.
https://xkcd.com/3003/

#xkcd No. 2998
Date: 2024-10-14
Title: Ravioli-Shaped Objects
Alt text: It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond.
https://xkcd.com/2998/

#xkcd No. 3000
Date: 2024-10-18
Title: Experimental Astrophysics
Alt text: Our experiment will be expensive, but we believe it will produce important spin-offs, especially if we manage to hit the sun from the right angle.
https://xkcd.com/3000/

#xkcd No. 3075
Date: 2025-4-11
Title: Anachronym Challenge
Alt text: I have to pay with paper money.
https://xkcd.com/3075/

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