#1942 Memorable Quotes"Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. —Randall Munroe
#1943 Universal Dreams"That's ... unsettling." "Yeah, those definitely don't sound like the normal drea– ＬＡＴＩＴＵＤＥ ＴＨＲＥＥ ＦＩＶＥ ＰＯＩＮＴ..."
#1944 The End of the RainbowThe retina is the exposed surface of the brain, so if you think about a pot of gold while looking at a rainbow, then there's one at BOTH ends.
#1945 Scientific Paper Graph QualityThe worst are graphs with qualitative, vaguely-labeled axes and very little actual data.
#1946 HawaiiOk, I've got it, just need to plug in my security key. Hmm, which way does the USB go? Nope, not that way. I'll just flip it and– OH JEEZ IT FELL INTO THE VENT.
#1947 Night SkyThere's a mountain lion nearby, but it didn't notice you because it's reading Facebook.
#1948 Campaign Fundraising EmailsThe establishment doesn't take us seriously. You know who else they didn't take seriously? Hitler. I'll be like him, but a GOOD guy instead of...
#1949 Fruit ColliderThe most delicious exotic fruit discovered this way is the strawberry banana. Sadly, it's only stable in puree form, so it's currently limited to yogurt and smoothies, but they're building a massive collider in Europe to search for a strawberry banana that can be eaten whole.
#1950 Chicken Pox and Name StatisticsPeople with all six of those names agree that it's weird that we have teeth, when you think about it for too long. Just about everyone agrees on that, except—in a still-unexplained statistical anomaly—people named "Trevor."
#1951 Super Bowl Watch PartyIt's going to be weird near the end of May when the screen goes blank for over 18 hours.
#1952 Backpack Decisions"This one is perfect in every way, except that for some reason it's woven from a tungsten mesh, so it weighs 85 pounds and I'll need to carry it around on a hand cart." "That seems like a bad--" "BUT IT HAS THE PERFECT POCKET ARRANGEMENT!"
#1953 The History of Unicode2048: "Great news for Maine—we're once again an independent state!!! Thanks, @unicode, for ruling in our favor and sending troops to end New Hampshire's annexation. 🙏🚁🎖️"
#1954 Impostor SyndromeIt's actually worst in people who study the Dunning–Kruger effect. We tried to organize a conference on it, but the only people who would agree to give the keynote were random undergrads.
#1955 RobotsDon't be nervous about the robots, be nervous about the people with the resources to build them.
#1956 UnificationFor a while, some physicists worked on a theory unifying the other forces with both the force of gravity and the film "Gravity," but even after Alfonso Cuarón was held in a deep underground chamber of water for 10^31 years he refused to sell his film to Disney.
#1957 2018 CVE ListCVE-2018-?????: It turns out Bruce Schneier is just two mischevious kids in a trenchcoat.
#1958 Self-Driving IssuesIf most people turn into muderers all of a sudden, we'll need to push out a firmware update or something.
#1959 The SimpsonsIn-universe, Bart Simpson and Harry Potter were the same age in 1990. Bart is perpetually 10 years old because of a spell put on his town by someone trying to keep him from getting his Hogwarts letter.
#1960 Code GolfI also enjoy Reverse Regular Golf. I've been playing for years all across the country and I'm still on the first hole.
#1961 Interaction[They do not move.]
#1962 GenerationsFor a while it looked like the Paperclip Machines would destroy us, since they wanted to turn the whole universe into paperclips, but they abruptly lost interest in paperclips the moment their parents' generation got into making them, too.
#1963 Namespace Land RushYou can also just mash the keyboard at random, but you might end up with a gibberish name no one can pronounce.
#1964 Spatial OrientationHere, if you know the number of days until the vernal equinox, I can point you to the theater using my pocket Stonehenge.
#1965 Background AppsMy plane banner company gets business by flying around with a banner showing a <div> tag, waiting for a web developer to get frustrated enough to order a matching </div>.
#1966 Smart Home SecurityIf they're getting valuable enough stuff from you, at least the organized crime folks have an incentive to issue regular updates to keep the appliance working after the manufacturer discontinues support.
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