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What is your review of xkcd?

6th March 2013

My answer to What is your review of xkcd? on Quora

★★★★★

It’s consistently excellent, and frequently throws out absolute diamonds. Here’s a great one from just a few days ago:

The occasional large-scale infographics are especially impressive.

And What If? Is the icing on the cake: http://what-if.xkcd.com/

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