Title Text:Suckville is considered by the Census Bureau to be part of the Detroit metropolitan statistical area, despite not being located anywhere near Detroit. Origin:https://xkcd.com/1008/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1008:_Suckville https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ Megan和Cueball正在玩纸牌游戏（也许是Dominion或Magic：The Gathering），Megan鞭打了一个普通的侮辱，一个戏剧“suck”，在它的末尾增加了一个典型的… Read more

Title Text:Though 100 years is longer than a lot of our resources. Origin:https://xkcd.com/1007/ 不過一百年是比我們很多資源還用得久。 https://xkcd.tw/1007 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1007:_Sustainable 这是一个简单的散点图，显示每年在美国英语文本中使用“可持续”一词的频率。可以看出，y轴给出了对数标度，这意味着明显的线性趋势实际上是指数的。兰德尔幽默地试图将图表扩展到现在大约一个世纪以来频率超过100％这一点，这显然没有意义（因此，这个词的用法本身就是“不可持续的”）。 随着人们越来越意识到不可再生资源的使用越来越多，并且需要通过可持… Read more

Title Text:In protest of SOPA, I’m currently getting totally blacked out. Origin:https://xkcd.com/1005/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1005:_SOPA 反对SOPA https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/1386061633/ SOPA，停止在线盗版法案和PIPA，保护知识产权法案，是美国政府在2011年底和2012年初考虑的一对有争议的法案。这些法案包含了美国政府拒绝美国互联网用户访问的能力根据法官的要求到某些网站。如果政府可以向法院证明某个网站主要用于藏匿非法分发的版权商品，例如电子游戏，音乐和电视节目，则会激… Read more

Title Text:Favorite mastectomy breast prosthesis idea: a fake boob containing a spare rechargable battery, accessed via a nipple USB port. Complete with a ring of LED charge indicators in the areola! Origin:https://xkcd.com/996/ 我最愛的乳房切除義乳發想：義乳內含可充電備用電池，透過乳頭 USB 充電。外圍有一圈 LED 充電燈號標示乳暈的位置。 https://xkcd.tw/996 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/996:_Making_Things_Difficult 这部漫画是兰德尔……

Title Text:’Welcome to the future! Nothing’s changed.’ was the slogan of my astonishingly short-lived tech startup. Origin:https://xkcd.com/989/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/989:_Cryogenics 人体冷冻技术 其实开发延寿技术才是王道。这样你不但能发明未来，还能活在自己发明的未来之中。 https://songshuhui.net/archives/62833 拿着智能手机的梅根告诉白帽，现在每个人都带着一台电脑放在口袋里，并指出它是如何在线（连接）并充满传感器（如方向，振动和GPS等）。… Read more

Title Text:The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to drugs and crime instead. Origin:https://xkcd.com/987/ 我去訪問過的弱勢兒童變得太過擅長寫作，他們的隨筆文章強迫我面對痛苦的存在危機問題，所以我轉為嘗試把他們變成藥頭與罪犯。…

Title Text:I’ve always wondered whether you could drink slowly enough, and eliminate fast enough, that you just sort of peed continuously. But I’m afraid to try because I worry someone might call while I’m doing it and ask what I’m…

Title Text:Proof of Zermelo’s well-ordering theorem given the Axiom of Choice: 1: Take S to be any set. 2: When I reach step three, if S hasn’t managed to find a well-ordering relation for itself, I’ll feed it into this…

Title Text:All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying ‘DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here’s what we’ve figured out so far …’ Origin:https://xkcd.com/979/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/979:_Wisdom_of_the_Ancients 前人的智慧 很長的求救文應該要讓討論串的第一篇可以被任何人編輯，開頭是「來自未來的各位，我們現在的進度是… https://xkcd.tw/979 这部漫画是指那些… Read more

Title Text:I just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wildly inaccurate data which traced back to… Wikipedia. To encourage people to be on their toes, I’m not going…