[1372] Smartwatches
Title Text:This is even better than my previous smartphone casemod: an old Western Electric Model 2500 desk phone handset complete with a frayed, torn-off cord dangling from it.
Title Text:This is even better than my previous smartphone casemod: an old Western Electric Model 2500 desk phone handset complete with a frayed, torn-off cord dangling from it.
Title Text:Recently, some exoplanet astronomers have managed to use careful analysis of reflected light to discover Earth during the day.
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/97 译者:猪的米 What if 系列:https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问: 假如你在某个春日里心情一好引燃了漂浮在空气中的花粉会怎么样?我知道这样是在作死,但后果到底是什么? —— Jessica Thornburg 回答: 首先我们得确定花粉是不是可燃的。有些问题呢最好的答案来自于正经的学术研究,但另一些问题可以通过在Youtube上搜索来快速解决。答案是肯定的,花粉极度易燃。 (警告:在继续往下讲之前,我想指出美国大部分地区目前极度干燥,火灾一触即发,而野火——90%的野火由人类引起——每年都会使许多消防员牺牲。所以请绝对不要试图点燃花粉。) 嗯,现在我们回归正题。 火是什么? (火到底是啥?能吃吗?… Read more
Title Text:Anyone who thinks we’re all going to spend the 2032 elections poring over rambling blog posts by teenagers has never tried to read a rambling blog post by a teenager.
Title Text:’TMI’ he whispered, gazing into the sea.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1369/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1369:_TMI https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ “TMI”是首字母缩略词,意思是“信息过多”。它通常被用作对某人“过度分享”的回应 – 告诉个人的详细信息(例如,“抱歉我只是错过了你的电话 – 我在电话响了时小便”)听众宁愿听不到。然而,在这里,Cueball可能在更直接的意义上使用它:他感到被大量信息所震撼,而这些信息现在通常可供任何有互联网连接的人使用。 标题文本通过唤起一个人站在… Read more
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/96 译者:猪的米 What if 系列:https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问: 如果烘焙咖啡店Au Bon Pain真的输掉了这场诉讼,不得不赔偿给原告 2*10^36美元该怎么办? —— Kevin Underhill 回答: 烘焙咖啡店连锁Au Bon Pain(以及其他一些组织)目前被人起诉了。原告所要求的赔偿金额如下: (实际大小) 而世界上所有可以出售的物品总价为: (大部分是实际大小,除了个别几个零有点小) 而人类自诞生以来所产出的所有物品和服务的总价值约为: (来源:这篇的右下角) 所以说即使Au Bon Pain征服了整个地球,强迫所有人都给它打工,直到所有的恒星都耗尽燃料,所产出的价值也不及赔款总数的九牛一毛… Read more
Title Text:’The world’s greatest [whatever]’ is subjective, but ‘One of the world’s greatest [whatever]s’ is clearly objective. Anyway, that’s why I got you this ‘one of the world’s greatest moms’ mug!< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1368/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1368:_One_Of_The https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot… Read more
Title Text:But still, my scheme for creating and saving user config files and data locally to preserve them across reinstalls might be useful for–wait, that’s cookies.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1367/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1367:_Installing https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 这部漫画指的是从智能手机(掌上电脑)用户的角度看似新的“发明”,但已经在台式机或笔记本电脑/笔记本电脑上存在了很长时间。 Cueball有一个聪明… Read more
Title Text:Trains rotate the Earth around various axes while elevators shift its position in space.
Title Text:Wait till they notice the faint reflection of Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny in the E-mode.