[OSX-Users] Re: Mystery Icon

[Nick Gibbins]

On 28 Mar 2011, at 10:53, Leslie Carr wrote:

> Can anyone help identify this mystery icon? It appears in a number of popular applications, but its design is lost to the mists of time.
> 
> http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/what-is-this-mystery-icon.html
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone

I think that we should replace it with a stylised icon of a cuneiform 
tablet, on the grounds that it's a storage format with much greater
longevity that's still recognisable 3000 years after falling out of use.

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