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xkcd: Significant
... and this goes on the office doors of statisticians everywhere.
funny:geeky  funny:because_its_true  xkcd  hypothesis_testing  multiple_comparisons  cartoons 
april 2011 by cshalizi
How to use a semicolon - The Oatmeal
"Using a semicolon isn't hard; I once saw a party gorilla do it."
funny:geeky  writing_advice  punctuation  via:cris_moore  cartoons 
november 2010 by cshalizi
xkcd: Airfoil
Needless to say, I am very much an option #3 teacher.
funny:because_its_true  funny:geeky  xkcd  cartoons  teaching 
october 2010 by cshalizi
A Softer World: 500
"Not all witches live out in the woods, luring little children to their ghastly deaths, but a girl needs goals."
funny:morbid  cartoons  a_softer_world 
november 2009 by cshalizi
Abstruse Goose » Schrödinger’s Miscalculation - Part 2
"What for u hide me in dark cold box?" (Note the normalization in the last panel.)
schrodingers_cat  cartoons  lolcats  abstruse_goose  funny:geeky 
december 2008 by cshalizi
Tor.com: A softer world
"It terrified me when my robot girlfriend started spouting virus gibberish"...
a_softer_world  love  cartoons 
september 2008 by cshalizi
Medium Large: "so what was graduate school for again?"
To use the next time I give a "how to get a job like mine" talk
cartoons  funny:sad  academia  medium_large  via:orzelc 
july 2008 by cshalizi
Flowchart: where do ideas go?
The context of unjustification visually explained.
funny:academic  cartoons  via:john-burke 
july 2008 by cshalizi
Asleep at the Keyboard: PartiallyClips - A Webcomic for Grownups
"It's bad form to show up to a meeting with the tell-tale waffle-like impression of a keyboard on your face."
cartoons  funny:geeky  partiallyclips 
april 2008 by cshalizi
Chimp with Ball: PartiallyClips - A Webcomic for Grownups
"you must've had a talk like this with your dad at some point" --- actually, no, but I understand what he means
cartoons  funny:geeky 
april 2008 by cshalizi
The Subprime Primer
The best part: it's all true. (But the artwork is even worse than xkcd; it should be re-done by David "Get Your War On" Rees.)
financial_speculation  mortgage_crisis  funny:malicious  via:aaronsw  cartoons 
march 2008 by cshalizi
xkcd - "someone is _wrong_ on the Internet!"
Of course, back in the day, it was "someone is _wrong_ in the pages of a [scholarly journal]/[little magazine]!"
computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters  cartoons  funny:geeky  funny:sad  xkcd 
february 2008 by cshalizi
Skullcrusher Mountain
Not sure how to describe this one without giving away the punchline...
cartoons  funny:geeky  mad_science 
november 2007 by cshalizi
YouTube - Cat alarm clock
I feel like my privacy has been violated.
cats  funny  cartoons 
october 2007 by cshalizi

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