History Fridge / Xkcd

** Likewise, I was learning integrals when I read [[http://xkcd.com/385/ this strip]]. Reading the info text was probably the first time I laughed out loud reading something on the internet. -- Sandbylur

** 'Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your browser window size.'

* [[http://xkcd.com/276/ Fixed Width]] makes a lot less sense when you realize "definitely for real" would also fit the pattern.
** As would "A bit more than sex", if the point was to have it match the question phrase as much as possible.
* In-Universe in [[http://xkcd.com/1747/ this comic about paleontology.]]
** And then again when you start thinking about it on a larger scale.

* While the [[https://xkcd.com/663/ Sagan Man]] comic appears to be a straightforward reference to SpiderMan's origin story, it is actually well motivated as in 1995 Carl Sagan was receiving radiation treatment for cancer (unfortunately [[HarsherInHindsight passing away in 1996]])

* So very much in "Time", especially after meeting the "Beanie People" -- Megan and Cueball are informed that the rising sea is the result of a catastrophic flood that will destroy everything they've seen on their journey and quite a lot more. Not to mention the setting is apparently more than ten thousand years in the future, and future!Megan and Cueball live on the floor of a drained Mediterranean Sea. It is strongly implied that the "Beanie People"'s settlement is actually what's left of Marseille, France.

* So very much in "Time", especially after meeting the "Beanie People" -- Megan and Cueball are informed that the rising sea is the result of a catastrophic flood that will destroy everything they've seen on their journey and quite a lot more. [[spoiler:Not to mention the setting is apparently more than ten thousand years in the future, and future!Megan and Cueball live on the floor of a drained Mediterranean Sea. It is strongly implied that the "Beanie People"'s settlement is actually what's left of Marseille, France.]]

* In the strip [[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/875:_2009_Called 2009 Called]] (produced in 2011), Randall appears to correctly predict the election of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump because when 2017 called all he could hear was screaming. While this might at first appear to be a coincidence, good luck, or some power to see the future, it was highly likely, given the polarized nature of politics during the election cycle, that no matter whom was elected in the 2016 US Presidential Election (the first one without Obama), the other side would take it to be the end of the world.

* In the strip [[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/875:_2009_Called 2009 Called]] (produced in 2011), Randall appears to correctly predict the election of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump because when 2017 called all he could hear was screaming. While this might at first appear to be a coincidence, good luck, or some power to see the future, it was highly likely, given the polarized nature of politics during the election cycle, that no matter whom was elected in the 2016 US Presidential Election, the other side would take it to be the end of the world.

* In the strip [[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/875:_2009_Called 2009 Called]] (produced in 2011), Randall appears to correctly predict the election of DonaldTrump because when 2017 called all he could hear was screaming. While this might at first appear to be a coincidence, good luck or some power to see the future, given the polarized nature of current politics, it was highly likely that no matter whom was elected in the 2016 US Presidential Election, the other side would take it to be the end of the world.

* In the strip [[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/875:_2009_Called 2009 Called]] (produced in 2011), Randall appears to correctly predict the election of DonaldTrump because when 2017 called all he could hear was screaming. While this might at first appear to be a coincidence, good luck or some power to see the future, given the polarized nature of current politics, it was highly likely that no matter whom was elected, the other side would take it to be the end of the world.

* In the strip [[www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/875:_2009_Called 2009 Called]] (produced in 2011), Randall appears to correctly predict the election of DonaldTrump because when 2017 called all he could hear was screaming. While this might at first appear to be a coincidence, good luck or some power to see the future, given the polarized nature of current politics, it was highly likely that no matter whom was elected, the other side would take it to be the end of the world.

* For April 1st 2012, Randell deviced [[http://xkcd.com/1037/ dozens of different strips]] that would show up based on the users location, browser, OS, and home domain. The alt-text for each was a variation on the following:

* And [[http://xkcd.com/647/ this strip]] that's not comedic. At all. Holy fuck.

* And [[http://xkcd.com/647/ this strip]] that's not comedic. At all. Holy fuck.
* If you think about [[http://xkcd.com/1075/ this strip]], it appears to be forecasting a car accident.

* If you think about[[http://xkcd.com/1075/ this strip]], it appears to be forecasting a car accident.

* And [[http://xkcd.com/647/ this strip]] that's not comedic. At all. Holy fuck.

* For April 1st 2012, Randell deviced [[http://xkcd.com/1037/ dozens of different strips]] that would show up based on the users location, browser, OS, and home domain. The alt-text was identical for all of them and said:

*** No, sometimes it would say "your web browser", and there may have been a few other permutations.

* I'm currently in college and taking a ton of computer science and math related courses, and about twice a week I learn something that makes an ''{{xkcd}}'' suddenly become absolutely brilliant. --{{Elan}}

* [[http://xkcd.com/693/ Discussed for comic effect]] in ''{{XKCD}}''.