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recent bookmarks from jmInside The Great Poop Emoji Feud2017-11-03T13:12:31+00:00
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/inside-the-great-poop-emoji-feud#.ek1QyqA95
jmThe debate appears to be between some of Unicode’s most prolific contributors and typographers (Unicode was initially established to develop standards for translating alphabets into code that can be read across all computers and operating systems), and those in the consortium who focus primarily on the evolution of emojis. The two chief critics — Michael Everson and Andrew West, both typographers — say that the emoji proposal process has become too commercial and frivolous, thereby cheapening the Unicode Consortium’s long body of work.
Their argument centers around “Frowning Pile Of Poo,” one of the emojis under consideration for the June 2018 class. In an Oct. 22 memo to the Unicode Technical Committee, Everson tore into the committee over the submission calling it “damaging ... to the Unicode standard.”
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http://what3emojis.com/
jmAddresses are hard. Who can remember street addresses or latitude/longitude pairs? You could do much better with three totally random English words, but then there’s that pesky language barrier. No system is perfect, except for emoji.
]]>eircode maps parody via:nelson location geocoding mapping pile-of-poohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dc25337c8540/The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop To America)2014-11-19T10:06:14+00:00
http://www.fastcompany.com/3037803/the-oral-history-of-the-poop-emoji-or-how-google-brought-poop-to-america
jm'I went over to Japan right around the time Takeshi was deciding which emoji were going to make it into the first cut of Gmail emoji. The [PILE_OF_POO emoji] was absolutely one of the necessary emoji that Takeshi said we have to have. There was actually conflict because there were people back at headquarters who had no idea what emoji were, and thought that having an animated [turd] in their Gmail was offensive.'
'[The poop emoji] got very popular when a comic called "Dr. Slump" was broadcast in Japan back to the ‘90s. Such poop was not an object to be disliked, but it had a funny meaning. This was a very popular comedy animation where a girl played a trick on other people using the poop. The poop was this funny object to play with. It was never serious.' 'In Japanese that’s called “unchi.” It’s a child word with a benign meaning. '
]]>culture emoji google pile-of-poo turd poo japan gmail unchi dr-slumphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8bed631660a1/Unchi-kun Candy - Japanese Lucky Poop Candy2014-05-14T10:11:01+00:00
http://www.jlist.com/product/AHP066
jmWhat doesn't look like Christmas more than a smiling piece of poop, called unchi in Japanese? Because the shape of unchi looks similar to that of mochi used for shrine offerings, and because the sound "unchi" like the Japanese word for luck, this treat is actually a lucky gift -- at least that is how you can explain yourself when you give it as a gift. Each Unchi-kun comes packed with poop candy, taken out from the bottom. Once finished eating, you can open the slot in the back with a box-cutter and turn it into a bank.
Want one!]]>unchi-kun unchi pile-of-poo emoji unicode cute funny japan j-list sweets food gross candyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b030a4ac7ce3/Unicode 6.0 released2010-10-13T20:48:02+00:00
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