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''xkcd'', sometimes styled ''XKCD'',〔 is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as a "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". Munroe states 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 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 17 "What If" shows an Apollonian gasket), intricate graphs and charts, or imitations of the style of other cartoonists (as during "Parody Week").〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=xkcd.com search: "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 added every weekday. From July 2012 to September 2015, there was a branch of ''xkcd'' called ''xkcd What-If'', which answered reader-submitted unusual science questions in a light-hearted but scientifically grounded way.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Creator of web comic xkcd addresses absurd hypotheticals )〕 ''What If?'' was presented in the format of an article rather than a comic strip. On March 12, 2014, a book was announced containing new and expanded What-Ifs titled ''What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions''. The book came out on September 2, 2014〔http://whatif.xkcd.com/book/〕〔(What if I wrote a book? | xkcd )〕〔(XKCD ‘What if?’ book announced by Randall Munroe | News | Geek.com )〕 and on September 10, 2014, the ''What If?'' book became number one on the New York Times nonfiction hardcover best-seller list. The "What if?" Section of the site has not been updated since September 2015. 〔Noam Cohen, The New York Times, (We’re All Nerds Now ), September 13, 2014.〕 On May 13, 2015, Randall Munroe announced another new book, ''Thing Explainer''. Based on comic 1133, known as "Up Goer-Five''", ''Thing Explainer'', "is full of detailed diagrams of interesting objects, along with explanations of what all the parts are and how they work". Most notably, the diagrams and explanations use only the one thousand most commonly used words in English. ''Thing Explainer'' was released on November 24, 2015.〔http://blog.xkcd.com/2015/05/13/new-book-thing-explainer〕 == History == The comic began in September 2005 when Munroe decided to scan doodles from his school notebooks and put them on his webpage. Eventually the comic was split off into its own website, where Munroe started selling T-shirts based on the comic. He currently works full-time on the comic, making Munroe one of the few professional webcomic artists.〔 According to Munroe, the comic's name has no particular significance and is simply a four-letter word without a phonetic pronunciation, something he describes as "a treasured and carefully guarded point in the space of four-character strings." The name of the comic is spelled in all lowercase letters, or all capitals.〔 In May 2007, the comic garnered widespread attention by depicting online communities in geographic form. Various websites were drawn as continents, each sized according to their relative popularity and located according to their general subject matter.〔 This put ''xkcd'' at number two on the Syracuse ''Post-Standards "The new hotness" list. In October 2008, ''The New Yorker'' magazine online published an interview and "Cartoon Off" between Randall Munroe and Farley Katz. For the "Cartoon-Off", Katz and Munroe each drew: "the Internet, as envisioned by the elderly", "String Theory", "1999", and "your favorite animal eating your favorite food". In March 2010, a puzzle hidden inside of the collection ''xkcd: Volume 0'' was cracked by many members of the ''xkcd'' forums. The solution was "<3<3<3 2010-06-26 14:28:57 "—ASCII art hearts, followed by the timestamp for June 26, 2010, 2:28:57 pm, and the coordinates Google Earth specifies for Golden Gate Park. At the specified time, date, and location, Munroe met with fans and handed out 255 limited edition prints of ''xkcd: Volume 0'', titled ''xkcd: Volume 0 Service Pack 1''. For April Fools Day 2012, comic 1037 ("Umwelt") displayed different comics depending on browser, location, and IP address range.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=xkcd • View topic – 1037: "Umwelt" )〕 On September 19, 2012, comic 1110 ("Click and Drag"), featured a panel which can be explored via clicking and dragging its insides. It immediately triggered positive response on social websites and forums. The large image measures 165,888 pixels wide by 79,822 pixels high. began publication at midnight EDT on March 25, 2013, with the comic's image updating every 30 minutes until March 30, when they began to change every hour, lasting for over four months. The images constitute time lapse frames of a story, with the mouseover text originally reading "Wait for it.", later changed to "RUN." and changed again to "The end." on July 26. The story began with a male and female character building a sandcastle complex on a beach who then embark on an adventure to learn the secrets of the sea. On July 26, the comic superimposed a frame (3094) with the phrase "The End". Tasha Robinson of ''The A.V. Club'' wrote of the comic: " For April Fools Day 2013, comic 1193 ("Externalities") changed its text content over that day, depending on various external values, from the amount of money donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via a link in the comic, to the school of first- and third-place winners of an ''xkcd'' hash-finding competition. For April Fool's Day 2015, comic 1506 ("XKCloud") was an interactive, where users help match images and texts of fake Facebook posts.〔(xkcd: xkcloud )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「xkcd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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