Tue. 12/28 - Emojis As Folklore & Cows On Waterbeds

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The argument for emojis as folklore, the top emojis of 2021, and why an emoji reference site is being archived in the Library of Congress. Plus, it turns out gray hair can return to its original color… sometimes, and temporarily. And, waterbeds didn’t fully go away after the early 90s. Their main consumer base just shifted… to cows. Sponsors: GiveWell, Have your donation matched up to $250 by entering Kottke Ride Home at check out at GiveWell.org Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Links: Emojis Are Folklore (Emojipedia) The Most Frequently Used Emoji of 2021 (Unicode) Emoji to Scale 7/17/20 episode about World Emoji Day (Kottke Ride Home) Gray Hair Can Return to Its Original Color--and Stress Is Involved, of Course (Scientific American) What Ever Happened To Waterbeds? (Mental Floss, 2016) Cows Deserve Waterbeds, Too (TIME, 2012) Yep, Dairy Cows Really Love Water Beds (Modern Farmer, 2019) Cow Waterbeds: How Advanced Comfort Technology Sold A Crazy Idea To Dairy Farmers (HuffPost, 2013) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Tuesday, December 28th, 2021.
0:31.7	I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:35.4	The argument for emojis as folklore. The top emojis of 2021, and why an emoji reference site is being
0:40.2	archived in the Library of Congress. Plus, it turns out that gray hair can return to its original
0:47.2	color, sometimes, and temporarily. And waterbeds didn't fully go away after the early 90s.
0:55.2	Their main consumer base just shifted to cows.
0:59.7	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:05.1	Did you know that emojis are archived in Library of Congress?
1:09.7	Not just emojis, the top website that explains
1:13.1	variations on and updates to emojis has been being actively archived with the U.S. Library
1:19.1	of Congress's WebCulture's Web Archive since 2017. As the site itself put it, quote,
1:25.6	why does a site that informs you that eggplant means penis
1:29.2	belong in a government-funded library? End quote. But even further, why is one of these subject
1:35.3	headings that the website is filed under in the archive, folklore and mythology?
1:41.1	Emojopedia's senior emoji lexicographer, Jane Solomon, explained it in an excellent piece from earlier this year, but to back up first,
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