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. [dculberson]

   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. [zuzu]

   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. [devophill]

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

4. [gridsix]

   Joel-

   Thanks for the link!