#1283 Headlines1916: 'PHYSICIST DAD' TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO GRAVITY, AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HE FINDS. [PICS] [NSFW]
#1284 Improved KeyboardI'm always installing tons of weird experimental keyboards because it serves as a good reminder that nothing I was going to type was really worth the trouble.
#1285 Third Way'The monospaced-typewriter-font story is a COMPLETE FABRICATION! WAKE UP, SHEEPLE' 'It doesn't matter! Studies support single spaces!' 'Those results weren't statistically significant!' 'Fine, you win. I'm using double spaces right now!' 'Are not! We can all hear your stupid whitespace.'
#1286 EncrypticIt was bound to happen eventually. This data theft will enable almost limitless [xkcd.com/792]-style password reuse attacks in the coming weeks. There's only one group that comes out of this looking smart: Everyone who pirated Photoshop.
#1287 PuzzlePrediction for Carlsen v. Anand: ... 25. Qb8+ Nxb8 26. Rd8# f6 27. "... dude." Qf5 28. "The game is over, dude." Qxg5 29. Rxe8 0-1 30. "Dude, your move can't be '0-1'. Don't write that down." [Black flips board]
#1288 SubstitutionsINSIDE ELON MUSK'S NEW ATOMIC CAT
#1289 Simple Answers'Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?' is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium.
#1291 Shoot for the MoonShoot for the Moon. If you miss, you'll end up co-orbiting the Sun alongside Earth, living out your days alone in the void within sight of the lush, welcoming home you left behind.
#1292 Pi vs. TauConveniently approximated as e+2, Pau is commonly known as the Devil's Ratio (because in the octal expansion, '666' appears four times in the first 200 digits while no other run of 3+ digits appears more than once.)
#1293 Job InterviewWhen you talk about the job experience you'll give me, why do you pronounce 'job' with a long 'o'?
#1294 Telescope NamesThe Thirty Meter Telescope will be renamed The Flesh-Searing Eye on the Volcano.
#1295 New StudyWhen the results are published, no one will be sure whether to report on them again.
#1296 Git CommitMerge branch 'asdfasjkfdlas/alkdjf' into sdkjfls-final
#1297 Oort Cloud... I wanna try. Hang on, be right back.
#1298 Exoplanet NeighborhoodIt's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!
#1299 I Don't Own a TVTheory: Smugness is proportional to the negative second derivative of TV ownership rate with respect to time.
#1300 Galilean MoonsI'm SO glad I escaped. They almost had me caught in their weird ... thing.
#1301 File ExtensionsI have never been lied to by data in a .txt file which has been hand-aligned.
#1302 Year in ReviewAll in all, I give this year a C-. There were no aurora visible from my house and that comet evaporated. They'd better not cancel the 2017 eclipse.
#1303 Profile InfoIt's ok, they'll always let you opt out! Like they did with the YouTube real name profile thing.
#1304 Glass TrollingPlus, when someone finally grabs your glasses and stomps on them, it costs way less than $1,500 to replace them.
#1305 Undocumented FeatureAnd it doesn't pop up a box every time asking you to use your real name. In fact, there's no way to set your name at all. You just have to keep reminding people who you are.
#1306 Sigil CycleThe cycle seems to be 'we need these symbols to clarify what types of things we're referring to!' followed by 'wait, it turns out words already do that.'
#1307 Buzzfeed ChristmasThe 6 Weirdest Objects The Buzzfeed Writers Are Throwing Out Their Windows At Us
![1916: 'PHYSICIST DAD' TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO GRAVITY, AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HE FINDS. [PICS] [NSFW]](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1283/0.png)
![It was bound to happen eventually. This data theft will enable almost limitless [xkcd.com/792]-style password reuse attacks in the coming weeks. There's only one group that comes out of this looking smart: Everyone who pirated Photoshop.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1286/0.png)
![Prediction for Carlsen v. Anand: ... 25. Qb8+ Nxb8 26. Rd8# f6 27. "... dude." Qf5 28. "The game is over, dude." Qxg5 29. Rxe8 0-1 30. "Dude, your move can't be '0-1'. Don't write that down." [Black flips board]](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1287/0.png)
!['Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?' is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1289/0.png)
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