The Day That Was, January 20th, 2009

Animal Collective's new album uses a popular optical illusion for its cover ⌁ A local news station interviews interim Apple head Tim Cook's parents, which is a little strange ⌁ Samsung will go Android on at least one phone ⌁ Asus's Eee PC Touch UI, what using their tablet netbook will be like ⌁ New Sony TVs will shut themselves off if no one is in the room

[#1 posted by dculberson , January 21, 2009 8:27 AM]

How do I get the Unicode characters to display in Firefox 3? I'm default to UTF-8 .. and none of the other encoding schemes I tried worked. Although UTF-16 was really interesting. The character in question is your separator, Unicode 2301, it just shows up as a box with "23[new line]01" in it.

[#2 posted by zuzu , January 21, 2009 8:50 AM]

Asus's Eee PC Touch UI, what using their tablet netbook will be like

This is all for their distribution of Linux, right? ...which is a derivative of Xandros, IIRC.

[Xandros] distributions are based on Corel Linux, a Debian-based distribution which was acquired along with the development team behind the product from Corel Corporation in August 2001 after Corel decided to leave the Linux distribution market.

[#3 posted by devophill , January 21, 2009 1:21 PM]

I'm having the same problem as #1, DCulberson. WTF are those things supposed to be, anyway?

[#4 posted by gridsix , January 22, 2009 12:54 PM]

Joel-

Thanks for the link!