{"month": "7", "num": 927, "link": "", "year": "2011", "news": "", "safe_title": "Standards", "transcript": "HOW STANDARDS PROLIFERATE\n(See: A\nC chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)\n\nSITUATION:\nThere are 14 competing standards.\n\nGeek: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.\nFellow Geek: Yeah!\n\nSoon:\nSITUATION:\nThere are 15 competing standards.\n\n{{Title text: Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.}}", "alt": "Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png", "title": "Standards", "day": "20"}