Thursday 14 April 2016
flights of fancy or project longshot
catagories: ๐ญ, holidays and observances
tobacco mosaic
Wednesday 13 April 2016
veranstaltungsraum oder moments at the museum
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐, Hessen, libraries and museums
prรชt-ร -porter or this is not even my final form
catagories: ๐พ, ๐, ๐บ, networking and blogging
Tuesday 12 April 2016
allthing or all that’s fit to print
Boing Boing’s Iceland correspondent reports on a wonderful and antithetical response to the scourge of off-shoring and out-sourcing (and indeed even proxy-wars) in the plan, having already secured parliamentary endorsement, to make the country a designated safe haven for the freedoms of expression and information.
catagories: ๐ง๐ช, ๐ช๐ช, ๐ฎ๐ธ, ๐, ๐ฅธ, environment, foreign policy, revolution
wright-on, wright brothers
catagories: ๐, antiques, environment
vulgate
Previously we’ve looked into how emojis are rendered differently across different platforms, a sort of diglossic code-switching between sender and receiver, should they have different devices, but here’s a deeper, academic investigation into the potential for misinterpretation by the differences in emotion, sentiment that they signal. Hannah Miller’s thesis abstract is pretty interesting. Via Kottke’s latest batch of quick links, one supposes that through this study (provided that competition extends into the future and allows the time needed for dialogues and regional accents to foment) the way the symbols are used might fracture from the mother language into increasingly non-mutually intelligible and distinct languages, sort of like the Romance tongues emerging as splintered versions of Latin.
catagories: ๐, ๐ง , language, networking and blogging