Tuesday, November 20, 2012

New York Times T'd off at Twitter font mockery

It's hard not to love the New York Times. There's so much "there" there that it's like a lover who has so many facets you can't embrace them all at once.
And yet one of those facets is that the Times is sometimes touchy.
Indeed, it has just engineered the blocking of a Twitter account, ostensibly because it doesn't enjoy the idea of the account having an avatar that includes the Times' legendary 't' -- which is something of a trademark.
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For some, this might appear to be a storm in a t-cup. After all, this particular avatar was the t wearing what looked like a beret. Or a badly cooked pancake.

Yet for Benjamin Kabak, the brains behind the 

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