Yellow Pages

A page from the February 1955 Bismarck-Mandan telephone directory, which also covered Flasher and Wilton, is being shared for its dated artwork. The Northwestern Bell Telephone Company Yellow Pages apparently relied on a small pool of clip art, prompting readers to joke about the limited design options available to directory advertisers in mid-century North Dakota.

A web service called EmojiFavicons is offering developers customisable status badges built from a single URL. The badges use emoji as favicons and let users set a left label, a right status, and a colour such as green, red, yellow, blue or any hex value. The service returns SVG images, meaning they can be embedded directly in GitHub READMEs or documentation pages. Developers are sharing examples, such as a rocket emoji build badge showing a passing status, as a lightweight way to personalise project pages.

Commentary is questioning whether American news outlets have scaled back coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war, even as fighting continues. The argument is that the conflict, once front-page news marked by Ukraine's yellow-and-blue flag, has faded from US headlines as other stories dominate. Critics say this leaves Americans less informed about a major European war and its consequences for global security.