hey mister, she's my sister.

20 May 2013 @ 04:00 am

http://xkcd.com/1214/

I'm not sure if you can get Epcot, but my friend just got LegoLand. He guessed California but it was the one in Denmark. Meanwhile, I'm rapidly becoming a connoisseur of unmarked dirt roads over flat, barren landscapes.

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17 May 2013 @ 04:00 am

Combination Vision Test

http://xkcd.com/1213/

If you see two numbers but they're both the same and you have to squint to read them, you have synesthesia, colorblindness, diplopia, and myopia.

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15 May 2013 @ 04:00 am

Interstellar Memes

http://xkcd.com/1212/

The strongest incentive we have to develop faster-than-light travel is that it would let us apologize in advance.

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13 May 2013 @ 04:00 am

Birds and Dinosaurs

http://xkcd.com/1211/

Sure, T. rex is closer in height to Stegosaurus than a sparrow. But that doesn't tell you much; 'Dinosaur Comics' author Ryan North is closer in height to certain dinosaurs than to the average human.

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10 May 2013 @ 04:00 am

http://xkcd.com/1210/

In retrospect, it's weird that as a kid I thought completely random outbursts made me seem interesting, given that from an information theory point of view, lexical white noise is just about the opposite of interesting by definition.

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08 May 2013 @ 04:00 am

http://xkcd.com/1209/

I don't see how; the C0 block is right there at the beginning.

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