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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".
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]
"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]
English: All xkcd webcomics by default are under the CC-NC-BY-2.5 license — which is not considered to be a free license on Wikimedia Commons. However, the author, Randall Munroe (en:User:Xkcd), released this specific image under CC-BY-2.5 so that it can be used on Wikipedia.
What If? is Munroe's second published book, his first being XKCD: Volume 0, a curated collection of xkcd comics released in 2009. [12] Munroe released a third book, titled Thing Explainer, in 2015, and a fourth book titled How To in 2019. [13] [14] A sequel, What If? 2, was announced in January 2022 and was released on September 13 that year. [6]
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 ...
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.
In May 2008, the English Wikipedia article Mottainai was edited to include a claim that the word mottainai appeared in the classical Japanese work Genpei Jōsuiki in a portion of the text where the word would have had its modern meaning of "wasteful". (The word actually does appear at two completely different points in the text, with different ...