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xkcd, sometimes styled XKCD, [‡ 2] is a serial webcomic created in 2005 by American author Randall Munroe. [1] The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". [‡ 3] [2] Munroe states on the comic's website that the name of the comic is not an initialism but "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation".
"Time" is the 1,190th strip of Randall Munroe's webcomic xkcd. Beginning with a single frame published at midnight on March 25, 2013, the image was updated every 30 minutes until March 30, 2013, and then every hour for 118 days (123 days in total), ending on July 26 with a total of 3,102 unique images. [1]
Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) [1] [2] [3] is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd.Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. [4]
Geohashing / ˈ dʒ iː oʊ ˌ h æ ʃ ɪ ŋ / is an outdoor recreational activity inspired by the webcomic xkcd, in which participants have to reach a random location (chosen by a computer algorithm), prove their achievement by taking a picture of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or another mobile device and then tell the story of their trip online.
Analysis showing that over 95% of Wikipedia articles get to Philosophy; The alt-text of a webcomic at xkcd notes this phenomenon (see tooltip) West, Bob [at Wikidata] (2011-05-26). "Wikipedia's fixed point". dlab @ EPFL. Lausanne, Switzerland: Data Science Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Archived from the original on 2022-05-23
The origins of The Game are uncertain. The most common hypothesis is that The Game derives from another mental game, Finchley Central.While the original version of Finchley Central involves taking turns to name stations, in 1976, members of the Cambridge University Science Fiction Society (CUSFS) developed a variant wherein the first person to think of the titular station loses.
2011-11-16 : xkcd - Citogenesis Careless writers end up creating citations for dubious facts on Wikipedia. 2011-11-21 : xkcd - Money Chart In a couple of areas it discusses different ways to look at the costs to run Wikipedia. 2011-12-19 : xkcd - Mnemonics Wikipedia is referenced as part of a mnemonic to remember color resistor codes.
xkcd humorously suggested that the Voynich manuscript was a rulebook for an ancient role-playing game, citing its esoteric language and illustrations as proof. [8] However, it is NOT appropriate to add a reference to the strip within the Voynich manuscript article, because the xkcd strip has had no larger influence on the manuscript itself, nor on the public reception of the manuscript ...