The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman

I really can't wait until the phishers get their hands on this. It's going to be a gas.

Back in the 80s one would be very excited to find a BBS that supported enhanced Apple IIe Mouse Text for drawing graphics, symbols, and menus at 1200 baud.<p>I suppose this is the Stanley Kubrick 2010 version of that.

Ha! Excellent. Although I might like to add a ♨ in there (technically the hot springs character, but it could also be melting snow).

I wonder how many twitter clients are going to recognize that as a link: <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/dlsspy/status/18062117684903937" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/dlsspy/status/18062117684903937</a><p>Twitter itself does, but tweetdeck does not.

I don't get it. Could someone explain the story?

Neat, but I can't help thinking "oh goodie, URL's I can't type..."<p>I mean, there's always Unicode tables/charts you can copy the symbol out of, or perhaps keystroke combinations, but Unicode has 65,533 characters.

Can somebody post a screen-shot for those of us who only see squares?

I was expecting a story about how/why it was introduced into Unicode (many parts of it have interesting stories). This is completely content-free.