Can someone tell me why 'Cat with a wry smile' is in Unicode? Presumably at some point someone thought that it would be useful to somebody else, hence it's inclusion. It would be very interesting to hear the back-story behind such seemingly useless glyphs.
These are Emoji: it's a set of smileys/icons originally used by Japanese carriers. Apple included them in their iPhone, and in order to standardise them they (successfully) requested they were added to Unicode.
But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be useful in some situations.
[1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm