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Monday, October 5, 2009

645: RPS

Reverse Polish notation

Just when I thought xkcd readers had been cured of their vandalistic tendencies forever, a reverse Polish notation joke comes along, a target too tempting to be ignored.

By the way, why in the world would you put the link in the "See Also" section? There's an "External Links" section just below. The difference between the two is that "See Also" is a list of related Wikipedia articles, while "External Links" contains, you know, external links. Come on, you're not even trying to get it right.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

639: Lincoln-Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas

The interesting thing about this particular piece of vandalism is that it's patently false. Randall makes no claims to historical accuracy (see the original comic's alt text), so it's puzzling that anyone would bother writing this. Probably the vandal thought it would be funny. It wasn't, because there is no context for the joke outside of the comic.