Today I learned that zinc whiskers are a thing.
https://dataspan.com/blog/what-are-zinc-whiskers-and-how-do-they-affect-data-centers/
#xkcd No. 3116
Date: 2025-7-16
Title: Echo Chamber
Alt text: This is almost as bad as the time I signed up for a purely partisan fishing expedition.
https://xkcd.com/3116/
#xkcd No. 3115
Date: 2025-7-14
Title: Unsolved Physics Problems
Alt text: 'Tin pest' makes more sense to me. Tin just doesn't want to be locked down in a shape like that. I get it. But why would any metal want to grow hair??
https://xkcd.com/3115/
Tydzień temu przypadkowo trafiłem na "Matriksa" w telewizji i miałem takie "Zapomniałem, jak dobry był ten film", dokładnie jak w tym #XKCD. https://xkcd.com/566/ Dziś jest "Matrix: Reaktywacja", ale sam nie wiem. Żeby tylko nie było jak w końcówce tego komiksu.
#xkcd No. 3114
Date: 2025-7-11
Title: Building a Fire
Alt text: That was quicker than usual! The cabin's sprinkler system often makes it really hard to keep anything lit.
https://xkcd.com/3114/
#xkcd No. 3113
Date: 2025-7-9
Title: Fix This Sign
Alt text: We're building on our earlier success getting web developers to pay to change the backslashes in our displayed payment URL to forward slashes.
https://xkcd.com/3113/
A new animated What If? video has been released on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQgw50GQu1A
What If? started as a blog run by xkcd creator Randall Munroe where people could submit absurd questions to be answered. Munroe has reprinted the answers in two books - called What If? and What If? 2 - and is now releasing animated versions of these existing answers.
Rregex isn't a problem, he says.
#xkcd No. 3112
Date: 2025-7-7
Title: Geology Murder
Alt text: After determining that his body was full of pipes carrying iron-rich fluid, our current theory is that the dagger-shaped object precipitated within the wound.
https://xkcd.com/3112/