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Wikibot, tell me about xkcd
Comment by autowikibot at 14/01/2014 at 01:18 UTC
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1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xkcd
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**xkcd**, sometimes stylized as XKCD, is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Munroe mentions on the comic's website that the name of the comic is not an acronym but "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation".
The subject matter of the comic varies from statements on life and love (some love strips are simply art with poetry) to mathematical and scientific in-jokes. Some strips feature simple humor or pop-culture references. Although it has a cast of stick figures, the comic occasionally features landscapes, intricate mathematical patterns such as fractals (for example, strip No. 17 "What If" shows an Apollonian gasket), intricate graphs and charts, or imitations of the style of other cartoonists (as during "Parody Week").
xkcd is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. New comics are added three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; although, on some occasions they have been updated every weekday.
Since July 2012, there has been a branch of xkcd called "xkcd What-If", updated every Tuesday. These attempt to answer unusual reader-submitted science questions in a humorous, though mathematically sound way, doing so in a format much more akin to an article.
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Comment by pseudonym1066 at 01/02/2014 at 17:05 UTC
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wikibot, what is love
