One of three best XKCD ever
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A finite fraction of my online communication now consists of "XKCD:###"
where ### gives the appropriate xkcd number.
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this, of course, is not true:
so when XKCD promulgates the myth, the time comes when a stand must be taken
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What are the other two all-time-best XKCD?
Not sure what your other "best" xkcd's are, but on my fridge I have:
Living in the lighthouse
The Fields Arranged By Purity
The Flow Chart
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Was scienceblogging left off, or unresolvable at this resolution?
ought to be a subfeature of tech blogs
scienceblogs are surprisingly large both in traffic and links. he might just have left them off
scienceblogs the domain, or the science blogs the category?