Hints and tips:
...According to Oxford’s Robin Dunbar, humour is key to courtship: by disarming us with an endorphin high, shared laughter promotes trust....
...They all exist in emoji form, the messaging icons that have gone beyond smiley faces to become a marketing phenomenon....
...Dozens of Google’s pod-like car prototypes, with their rooftop sensors and smiley headlights, trundle around the Silicon Valley town every day....
...One view is that he is Robin Banks, who started as a graffiti artist in Bristol in the early 1990s, along with Nick Walker, who was later hired by director Stanley Kubrick to recreate the graffitied streets...
...Oxford College Gardens, by Tim Richardson, Frances Lincoln, RRP£40 Richardson’s well-informed narrative and Andrew Lawson’s superb pictures conjure the gardens at their peak, from my colleague Robin Lane...
...Carroll’s smiley face is the new look of American power and the traditionalists among us will just have to get used to it....
...The system is tailored to mobile phones, the most common way to use social media sites in Japan, and supports “smiley” icons – which Twitter lacks....
...Last week that retired female in Oxford with a dream of a memory was reminding Smiley that the spy networks of Moscow Centre are run by a “great big Russian fox, George”, safe in an earth from which he subverts...
...Acrodea has other software that helps put smiley icons into text messages and takes panoramic photographs. It has also experimented with a range of business models....
...So alongside the postcards of smiley-faced dingoes there are leaflets on how to deal with them in snarling mode. But the island’s main attraction is mineral, rather than animal....
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