Links for April 2016

4/30/2016 (updated 5/19/16)

• 'Grinning face' emoji looks so different on iPhones and Android handsets it's confusing people | Daily Mail Online
• A New Number Format for Computers Could Nuke Approximation Errors for Good | Motherboard
• A spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz is angering publishers all over again | Ars Technica
• All HTML characters as they appear on your system - Visibone
• Amazon Ion
• CDL Digital File Format Recommendations - cdl_dffr.pdf
• Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile - YouTube
• Creating Magnetic Disk Storage at IBM - Engineering and Technology History Wiki
• For What It’s Worth: A Review of the Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” | Dan Cohen
• IBM Knowledge Center - Working with Unicode
• Inside Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format | Google Cloud Big Data Blog — Google Cloud Platform
• Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium - BuzzFeed News
• Introducing the IIIF First Folio | Bodleian Digital Library
• Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens
• Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA | Science
• Sample workflow for LP digitization - Audacity Manual
• UW team stores digital images in DNA — and retrieves them perfectly | UW Today
• Understanding the PDF file format - How Are Images Stored
• WebM, VP9 and Opus Support in Microsoft Edge | Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
• What Does The Pink Lady Emoji Mean? The "Information Desk Person" Is More Versatile Than You Think | Bustle
• edn-format/edn: Extensible Data Notation

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