I thought most emojis were bright yellow. I can't imagine it being possible to be a person of any more colour than that...
Unicode ideogram list-site Emojipedia goes titsup. Wow. Did you just give us the finger?
An online encyclopaedia of emojis has been chucked offline after vast numbers of people visited the site to gawp at 250 new pictographic symbols. Industry standards body Unicode has just released a Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard, adding 2,834 new characters including 250 "emoji" ideograms which range from a charming …
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 04:30 GMT Munin
Infographics
It's been a few years since I've read 'em, and I am a little tipsy at the moment, but is anyone else reminded of the infographics for illiterate persons in Stephenson's novels? I seem to recall them being used in Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, unless I'm mistaken. I don't mean to sound as though I'm some sort of Plato-decrying-the-youth type, but do we really need to further encourage a departure from reading and writing--from actual coherent sentence-making into symbology and pictures? But then, the very fact I've posted this comment indicates that the battle has already been lost, and I'd best bone up on the meanings of these 'emoji' lest I find myself illiterate in the new language of the kids-these-days.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 08:24 GMT Velv
And the lesson to be learned from this story is...
... when you want to publish something new on the Internet that might be popular, publish it secretly in a quiet little backwater first and let google cache make a copy.
Then just point the waiting world at google cache and let them handle the load.