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Mr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926]
  • "The Outbursts of Everett True" is likely in the public domain. This comic strip was created by A.D. Condo and J.W. Raper, and it first appeared in 1905. Works published in the United States before 1924 are generally in the public domain.

    Here are some key points to confirm its public domain status:

    1. Publication Date: Since "The Outbursts of Everett True" was first published in 1905, it falls well before the 1924 cutoff.

    2. Copyright Term: For works published before 1924, the original copyright term would have been 28 years, renewable for another 28 years, totaling a possible 56 years. Even if renewed, this would have expired by 1961.

    3. Public Domain Confirmation: Typically, works published over 95 years ago are in the public domain unless there are specific reasons why their copyright might have been extended beyond the normal terms, which is uncommon for early 20th-century works.

    Therefore, "The Outbursts of Everett True" should be in the public domain based on its original publication date.

  • xkcd #2949: Network Configuration

    https://xkcd.com/2949

    Alt text: > If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

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    xkcd #2945: Broken Model

    https://xkcd.com/2945

    > In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

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    xkcd #2944: Magnet Fishing

    https://xkcd.com/2944

    Alt text: > The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

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    xkcd #2943: Unsolved Chemistry Problems

    https://xkcd.com/2943

    Alt text: > I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

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    xkcd #2941: Cell Organelles

    https://xkcd.com/2941

    Alt text: > It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

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    xkcd #2939: Complexity Analysis

    https://xkcd.com/2939

    Alt text: > PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

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    xkcd #2938: Local Group

    https://xkcd.com/2938

    Alt text: > Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

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    xkcd #2936: Exponential Growth

    https://xkcd.com/2936

    Alt text: > Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

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    xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop

    https://xkcd.com/2935

    Alt text: > I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

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    xkcd #2934: Bloom Filter

    https://xkcd.com/2934

    Alt text: > Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

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    xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths

    https://xkcd.com/2933

    Alt text: >\==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

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    xkcd #2932: Driving PSA

    https://xkcd.com/2932

    Alt text: > This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

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    xkcd #2931: Chasing

    https://xkcd.com/2931

    Alt text: > Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

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    xkcd #2930: Google Solar Cycle

    https://xkcd.com/2930

    Alt text: > From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

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    xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas

    https://xkcd.com/2929

    Alt text: > While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

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    xkcd #2928: Software Testing Day

    https://xkcd.com/2928

    Alt text: > The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.

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    xkcd #2927: Alphabetical Cartogram

    https://xkcd.com/2927/

    Alt text: > Poor Weeoming.

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    xkcd #2926: Doppler Effect

    https://xkcd.com/2926

    Alt text: > The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.

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    xkcd #2925: Earth Formation Site

    https://xkcd.com/2925/

    Alt text: > It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

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    xkcd #2924: Pendulum Types

    https://xkcd.com/2924

    Alt text: > The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

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