THE WINGDINGS CONTROVERSY

Included in the Video, besides some other awesome statistics about the Twin Towers Incident, is a caption involving the "Wingdings" font, found in Microsoft Word.

Thanks to Recon reader Leela for sending along the following quote from Wikipedia on this issue:

Wingdings has a history of controversy. In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence "NYC" in Wingdings was rendered as a skull and crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture (NYC). This could be interpreted as a message of approval of killing Jews, especially those from New York City. Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. (The character sequence "NYC" in the later-released Webdings font, in turn, is rendered as eye, heart, and city skyline, which could be interpreted as "I Love New York City". Microsoft has stated that this is intentional.)^[2]

An urban legend that spread after the September 11, 2001 attacks was that if the sequence "Q33NY" is typed in Wingdings, the Q becomes an aircraft, the threes become lined documents (resembling skyscrapers), the N becomes a skull and crossbones, and the Y becomes the Star of David. The "NY" stands for New York, and "Q33" allegedly was the designation of one of the aircraft. However, the theory that this has any valid non-accidental connection with the attacks falls apart under scrutiny: none of the aircraft used on that day bore the designation of Q33; the crucial aircraft/flight number is merely contrived for the purpose of this claimed connection.^[3]

^{Just some facts
to add to the hopper in making up your mind about the info included
in the Video.}

^Thanks,

^Daniel.