Unicode has approved a set of new emoji icons you can use to dress up your text messages and social media posts. They include animals, people, food, household objects, and symbols. Some are thoroughly modern, like the transgender flag, bubble tea, and a protest sign. One seems a little anachronistic: fondue. What? Is the 1970s dinner fad coming back? Or will the emoji be used to signal that something is very old or passé? But what really stuck out to me was this one:
Not because it's odd. What struck me as odd was the description: "disguised face disguise | disguised face | face | glasses | incognito | nose." Does no one call these Groucho glasses anymore? Does knowing whose face the "disguise" is modeled on mean I am ancient? See all the new emoji here. -via Kottke