Title Text:These pranks happen all the time. English doesn’t allow one-syllable words to end in a lax vowel, so writers on The Simpsons decided to mess with future linguists by introducing the word “meh.”
原作：http://what-if.xkcd.com/151 编译：猪的米 What if 系列：https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问： 要多少只萤火虫加在一起发出的光才能和阳光相比拟？ ——Luke Doty 回答： 并没有那么多！我是说这个数字末尾肯定有许多个零，但其实并没有你想象得那么多。 （世上只有两种数：零和其他一切让你数据类型溢出的数） 首先第一个问题是：萤火虫发出的光从哪里来？ 你可能会觉得萤火虫身体里都是会发光的物质，但其实只有表面一层薄薄的发光层[1]。许多昆虫都有这样的发光表皮，人们仔细研究过其中的一些，并测量了它们的发光强度。一篇1928年的文章研究了一种叫做“头灯甲虫（headlight bug）”的甲壳虫[2]，他们发现这种甲虫身上的发光… Read more
Title Text:It’s like you tried to define a formal grammar based on fragments of a raw database dump from the QuickBooks file of a company that’s about to collapse in an accounting scandal.
Title Text:Later, walking out of jail after posting $10,000 bail: “Wait, this isn’t the street the county jail is on.”
Title Text:Calm down–there were lots of arthropods living on your skin already. These ones are just bigger.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1693/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1693:_Oxidation 氧化 冷靜一點，你的皮膚上本來就住著一大堆節肢動物，那幾隻只是大一點而已。 https://xkcd.tw/1693 在这个漫画中，马尾辫将梅根的车开火，可能是撞毁了它。 氧化是指一整类化学反应。任何涉及电子损失的化学反应都称为“氧化”（因为其中很多都涉及氧气）。一种氧化反应是生锈，汽车钢中的铁原子与氧气和水分反应生成氧化铁水合物… Read more
Title Text:For even more info, see blarbl(2)(3) and birb(3ahhaha I’m kidding, just Google it like a normal person.
Title Text:Premature optimization is the root of all evil, so to start this project I’d better come up with a system that can determine whether a possible optimization is premature or not.
Title Text:’List of helicopter prison escapes’ and ‘List of sexually active popes’ are both entertainingly long, but sadly there’s no ‘List of helicopter prison escapes involving sexually active popes.’
Title Text:I can’t get any work done because my friend Catherine is sitting on my keyboard.
