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Wow, I never would have guessed there was an HTML entity for ☠or the skull-and-crossbones. The entity is “☠.”I learned this through the Wikipedia entry for “Skull and Crossbones.” With all of the publicity surrounding Talk Like a Pirate Day, I’m surprised I haven’t run across ☠ before. Arrrrrrgh!
Update: I apologize to anyone who got a zillion updates via their RSS readers. The Ajaxamacated posting interface in WordPress makes it difficult to represent HTML entities with other HTML entities. Sigh. After a quick search, I found a Wikipedia page with all kinds of wacky HTML entities.

