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#2094 Short Selling "I'm selling all my analogies at auction tomorrow, and that witch over there will give you 20 beans if you promise on pain of death to win them for her." "What if SEVERAL people promised witches they'd win, creating some kind of a ... squeeze? Gosh, you could make a lot of–" "Don't be silly! That probably never happens."
#2095 Marsiforming It has so many advantages--it preserves Martian life, requires fewer interplanetary launches, and makes it much easier to field-test Mars rovers.
#2096 Mattresses After reading that "The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare" article, I've decided it's safer and less complicated to just sleep on the floor. DISCLOSURE: THE AUTHOR OF THIS MOUSEOVER TEXT RECEIVED FINANCIAL COMPENSATION FROM THE FLOOR INDUSTRY FOR THIS MESSAGE.
#2097 Thor Tools CORRECTION: After careful evaluation, we have determined that the axis label on this chart was printed backward.
#2098 Magnetic Pole People keep trying to come up with reasons that we should worry about the magnetic field collapsing or reversing, but honestly I think it's fine. Whatever minor problems it causes will be made up for by the mid-latitude auroras.
#2099 Missal of Silos Welcome to Wyoming, motto "We'd like to clarify that Cheyenne Mountain is in Colorado."
#2100 Models of the Atom J.J. Thompson won a Nobel Prize for his work in electricity in gases, but was unfairly passed over for his "An atom is plum pudding, and plum pudding is MADE of atoms! Duuuuude." theory.
#2101 Technical Analysis "I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this 'paper economy', not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges." --James Tobin, July 1984!["I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this 'paper economy', not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges." --James Tobin, July 1984](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2101/0.png)
#2102 Internet Archive The fact that things like the npm left-pad incident are so rare is oddly reassuring.
#2103 Midcontinent Rift System The best wedge issue is an actual wedge.
#2104 Biff Tannen I can't help myself; now I want to read a bunch of thinkpieces from newspapers in Biff's 1985 arguing over whether the growth of the region into a corporate dystopia was inevitable.
#2105 Modern OSI Model In retrospect, I shouldn't have used each layer of the OSI model as one of my horcruxes.
#2106 Sharing Options How about posts that are public, but every time a company accesses a bunch of them, the API makes their CEO's account click 'like' on one of them at random so you get a notification.
#2107 Launch Risk Don't worry--you're less likely to die from a space launch than from a shark attack. The survival rate is pretty high for both!
#2108 Carbonated Beverage Language Map There's one person in Missouri who says "carbo bev" who the entire rest of the country HATES.
#2109 Invisible Formatting To avoid errors like this, we render all text and pipe it through OCR before processing, fixing a handful of irregular bugs by burying them beneath a smooth, uniform layer of bugs.
#2110 Error Bars ...an effect size of 1.68 (95% CI: 1.56 (95% CI: 1.52 (95% CI: 1.504 (95% CI: 1.494 (95% CI: 1.488 (95% CI: 1.485 (95% CI: 1.482 (95% CI: 1.481 (95% CI: 1.4799 (95% CI: 1.4791 (95% CI: 1.4784...
#2111 Opportunity Rover Thanks for bringing us along.
#2112 Night Shift Help, I set my white balance wrong and suddenly everyone is screaming at each other about whether they've been to Colorado.
#2113 Physics Suppression If physics had a mafia, I'm pretty sure the BICEP2 mess would have ended in bloodshed.
#2114 Launch Conditions Though I do think the tiny vent on one of the boosters labeled "O-RING" is in poor taste.
#2115 Plutonium It's like someone briefly joined the team running the universe, introduced their idea for a cool mechanic, then left, and now everyone is stuck pretending that this wildly unbalanced dynamic makes sense.
#2116 .NORM Normal File Format At some point, compression becomes an aesthetic design choice. Luckily, SVG is a really flexible format, so there's no reason it can't support vector JPEG artifacts.
#2117 Differentiation and Integration "Symbolic integration" is when you theatrically go through the motions of finding integrals, but the actual result you get doesn't matter because it's purely symbolic.
#2118 Normal Distribution It's the NORMAL distribution, not the TANGENT distribution.
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