The trick is easy: just go browsing around the Unicode blocks until you find something you fancy, and double click the character so that it’s added to the “Text to copy” field. Then play with some chars until you get a result, since you can also edit text in that field.

I’m pretty sure speakers of the languages which use the characters we “draw” with will be massively puzzled by our behaviour. But it’s funny anyway!

Some quick examples:

ರ_ರ — Low skeptical eyebrow
⇝_⇜ — Argh
↬_↫ — Convoluted argh
↻_↻ — You were wrong, undo everything you’ve done today and start again
⇴_⇴ — I think I’ll pass
ৄ_ৄ — Sophisticated spectacles
ㄖ_ㄖ — Japanese serious person, with specs
╤_╤ — NOOOO
ᨆ_ᨆ — Zzzz
ᨆ‿ᨆ — Zzzz, happier
⁀‿⁀ — Happier and awake
ᨊ_ᨊ — You said what?
Ӧ — YOU SAID WHAT?
᨟_ᨔ — Eye patch
ꙨꙍꙨ — What? with big nose
OራO — Another big nose
ꙭ_ꙭ — Four eyes (literally)
ि_ी — Huge frame specs
㋩ — Saaad
㋡ — Happy
㋬_㋬ — ^_^ with glasses

Your take?

Mr.doob just managed to pull the leg of half the Internet population today (OK, maybe I’m exaggerating, let’s leave it in half the Twitterverse) with his ie6 effect for Chrome and Firefox.

I thought it would do us all good to have a native Android application, so that we could also emulate the Internet Explorer 6 experience in our cell phones.

And presto, here it is (direct link to Market, don’t bother if you’re not browsing this with a phone). Or in Cyrket.

Plus it also includes our beloved Critical error sound.

Enjoy it :P

Update: I learnt how to make Activities have transparent surface and theme… so I updated the Application and it now blends seamlessly with your Home screen, menu… and it’s way more realistic! A screenshot:

The updated version is already available in the market, so you’ll get an update notification soon if you’ve got it installed.

That said, it happened after a system crash, so Eclipse hadn’t been shut properly. And after killing Eclipse (because it wouldn’t stop popping up error windows) and reopening it again, it seems the evil goblin of mass destruction and agony had gone away.

Thankfully an outline wasn’t available!

– So have you heard about Scons?

– Oh yeah, it’s that food thingie, isn’t it?

– Food thingie? What food thingie?

– Yeah! Like this?

– Oh nooo, those are scones! I meant the Python thingie!

– Aaah, I see!

Will you resist?