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Tech Buzz Facebook Chat now lets you use the face of any user, page or event as an emoticon. Will this mean the death of the ;) and :P in chat? Your move, Gchat.
Style Buzz Emoticons (and some plain old-fashioned punctuation marks) make for rather nice rings. They'll also leave behind a signature mark should you have need to punch someone in the face. (Via Design You Trust)
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Depressing emoticons for depressing times.
Found sitting next to Reddit user CaptainCaspian's parent's computer. Notably absent.
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Plastic surgery ad from Korea with before and after emoticons. Is the one on the top right supposed to be an ass lift?
So, how are we feeling today? I think this pretty much covers all the most important emotions.
A girl forgot her iPod in my car during a roadtrip, so I shipped it back to her along with this.
Even if this emotisun reminds me Halloween, I am glad to know that looking at our world the sun smiles!
I SEE WAT U DID THER. Reddit user Vajrapani is a textbook editor and redditor who snuck a nod to the social news aggregator giant into a chapter on “communications and technology.”
Incredibly accurate depictions. Especially the hypothetical 'hearing that heroes finally got canceled'*
==C <==8, you guys. Some useful shorthand that'll help us talk about robot uprisings and the zombie apocalypse.
A Russian bank rejected Vladimir Kirlov's loan application because he signed it with a smiley face. Awesomely, the Russian passport service were cool with it. In 2012 I'm signing everything with this… I'm gonna need a bigger form.
If only these were actually easy to stick into emails, I'd be way more likely to use emoticons on a regular basis. :(
There's something truly terrifying about a mom who has just learned the arcane secrets of making funny animated faces on the Internet. They should make a horror movie about this. [Update: You can find Genna on her Tumblr! You should follow her. Genna - your mom is awesome.]
From the magazine Puck, published in 1881. Someone was way ahead of their time - though the boring description full of long unpronouncable words shows just how far removed they were from the modern (i.e. better) way of doing things. Lulz.
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