The Daves Collective

Further evidence of Global Conspiracy
2003-12-13 12:43

There's an exposé in Wired entitled Microsoft Loses the Swastika. The gist of it is that the naughty squiggle was inadvertently included in an Office 2003 font named Bookshelf Symbol 7 (their excuse being it "was derived from a Japanese font set"; that's certainly plausible to anyone who's seen Bridge On The River Kwai). Yes indeedy, there it is at 0x7E. But the really scary thing is that Character Map is right next to the scientologists' Diskeeper in the Win2K System Tools menu! Tools of the System! Yes, it makes sense now! I wonder if System Information is fnord channeling the fnord fnord Illuminati?

Update: They're watching me!

There's more. Webdings font, 0x85. Now I'm really scared. Gonna leave the light on tonight.

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