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nancylebov ([personal profile] nancylebov) wrote2010-03-17 09:23 am

Pure geeky goodness

It seems to me that xkcd had been marking time for a while, but now we have




I suppose it makes sense in a way that the one about bra size is bimodal, but I have no idea what the cause might be.

[identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"There are x lights" is probably a reference to the ST:TNG episode "Chain of Command", in which Picard is shown four lights, but then tortured to try to get him to say there are five. That itself presumably draws on Orwell's 1984, where Winston Smith undergoes something similar with fingers rather than lights.

"I got 99 problems" is a line from a single by Jay-Z, which also draws on one by Ice-T.