✒️Crystal Ball

They often use ball lenses to collect light at the ends of optical fibers, so when you look stuff up on the internet you're actually scrying through a crystal ball.
https://xkcd.com/2776
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✒️Noise Filter

Party Mode also enables the feature, but reverses the slider.
https://xkcd.com/2777
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✒️Cuisine

My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.
https://xkcd.com/2778
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✒️Exoplanet High-5

Tau Ceti is farther away, so it took me 36 years to start the war over updog.
https://xkcd.com/2779
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✒️Physical Quantities

The Hubble length is about 1.9 meters lying down; Edwin Hubble was a tall guy.
https://xkcd.com/2780
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✒️The Six Platonic Solids

Plato made the solids, and five were gifted to the mathematicians. But in secret Plato forged a sixth solid to rule over all the others.
https://xkcd.com/2781
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✒️Wikipedia Article Titles

I would never stoop to vandalism, but I'm not above discreetly deleting the occasional 'this article contains excessive amounts of detail' tag.
https://xkcd.com/2782
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✒️Ruling Out

We were able to replicate and confirm prior authors' detection of a moon orbiting the Earth with high confidence.
https://xkcd.com/2783
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✒️Drainage Basins

After a pail of water was thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West outside Salt Lake City, Utah's Great Salt Lake was measured to be 7 parts per trillion witch by volume.
https://xkcd.com/2784
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✒️Marble Run

I have so many plans. It would incorporate a Galton board, a Ranque-Hilsch marble vortex tube, and a compartment lined with pinball bouncers with a camera-and-servo Maxwell's Demon that separated the balls into fast and slow sides.
https://xkcd.com/2785
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✒️UFO Evidence

[Decades in the future] "Well, the good news is that we've received definitive communication from aliens. The bad news is that they're asking about Cats (2019)."
https://xkcd.com/2786
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✒️Iceberg

90% of the iceberg is hidden beneath the water, but that 90% only uses 10% of its brain, so it's really only 9%.
https://xkcd.com/2787
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✒️Musical Scales

In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper.
https://xkcd.com/2788
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✒️Making Plans

Oh no, I haven't checked in with Yvonne in YEARS.
https://xkcd.com/2789
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✒️Heat Pump

If I'm not going to upgrade to a powered one, I should at LEAST stop leaving the door open so often.
https://xkcd.com/2790
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✒️Bookshelf Sorting

Of course, I sort all my bookshelves the normal way, alphabetically (by first sentence).
https://xkcd.com/2791
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✒️Summer Solstice

Then I'll start work on my lunar engines to line the Moon up with the ecliptic so we can have a solar eclipse every month (with a little wobble so they're not always on the equator.)
https://xkcd.com/2792
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✒️Garden Path Sentence

Arboretum Owner Denied Standing in Garden Path Suit on Grounds Grounds Appealing Appealing
https://xkcd.com/2793
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✒️Alphabet Notes

Listen, you're very cute, but if you rearrange the alphabet to put U and I together it will RUIN the spacing!
https://xkcd.com/2794
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✒️Glass-Topped Table

You can pour a drink into it while hosting a party, although it's a real pain to fit in the dishwasher afterward.
https://xkcd.com/2795
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