Eliminating the Impossible

Posted on Feb 20, 2026 xkcd.com

'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.

Plums

Posted on Feb 18, 2026 xkcd.com

My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

SNEWS

Posted on Feb 16, 2026 xkcd.com

People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

Posted on Feb 13, 2026 xkcd.com

'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.