Fake Unicode Consortium : featuring such codepoints as “I USED TO BE A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K LIKE YOU THEN I TOOK AN ARROW IN THE KNEE”, “BACK TO THE FUTURE”, “ENTERING HYPERSPACE”, “LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q TAKING A NAP”, and “LOVE HOTEL”. no wait, that one’s real (via Tony Finch, with comments by Michael Everson!)
(tags: unicode humor codepoints i18n fonts skyrim hyperspace funny via:fanf)Senator Mark McSharry call Boards.ie and Politics.ie “subversive” : ‘we have Boards.ie and Politics.ie, for me frankly that doesn’t amount to free speech what it amounts to is legalised subversion of the state. I think it’s fundamentally wrong.’ Incredible quote
(tags: boards politics.ie ireland internet seanad regulation subversion mark-mcsharry free-speech)A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work : ‘After we moved in, we were asked to file patents for anything and everything we’d invented while working on Upcoming.org.’
(tags: patents swpat upcoming yahoo ip idiocy warchest)The Irish Times demands meme takedown : satire of whiny rich-girl complaining is not permitted
(tags: satire irish-times ip broadsheet memes)