Emoji Tracking

Some of our audience are sure to know this, but for those who don’t, emoji is the Japanese expression  for  what we commonly know as “smileys”.  While emoji started off life in Japanese email and web communications, their use has been adopted by much of the world at large, including Apple and Android smartphone operating systems and many websites and web services.  Here is a realtime visual tracker that shows counts and frequency of particular emoji as used by Twitter.  The most-used emoji, reassuringly, is the heart symbol (or at least was at the time of this writing).  Click on the graphic or go here to see the tracking in action.

Cradle of Mir

Cradle of Mir - Photography by Ron Lussier
Cradle of Mir - Photography by Ron Lussier
This year at Burning Man (also this …), a group of Russian artists created a project called the “Cradle of Mir” to celebrate Space Station Mir and symbolize world peace.  Their project involved a model of the space station inside a temporary 3-story-high pyramid.  For details and lots more photography by Ron Lussier, jump here.

No Passwords Needed

Who needs passwords, when your heart says it all?   Does this really work?

More info and commentary, for the clicking.

Lewis & Clark Redux

Back to school for Ivi.    We depart late morning Saturday, check into a motel, hit Trader Joe’s to stock up Ivi’s kitchen.  Dorm move-in is Sunday morning, and then it is homeward bound, first stopping at another T.J.’s to equip our own larder, driving until late afternoon.