Well, if your ISP bills you by the pixel, it adds up! 
Don’t know if NYT has a museum with a Linotype, but the Los Angeles Times does.
Actually, it’s worse that Leo Bloom thinks.
Note the absence of a dot after the first letter.
Depending on how nit-picky one chooses to be, there should be exactly one period after each letter:
or none at all:
(For the purposes of this thread, we can eschew any dispute over whether that should be in upper-case or lower-case letters. I’m sure there’s another thread in that.)
There’s also a small print shop in Atascadero with an old rusting Linotype sitting out front next to sidewalk, on the main thoroughfare (El Camino Real) through the town.
How I enter en-dashes and em-dashes (on the infrequent occasion that I can be arsed to bother):
I maintain a text file with a collection of special characters. When I see a “special character” in a post, or in a news article, or elsewhere, and if it’s of any potential interest to me, I cut-and-paste it into my little text file. I also have a Character Map app on my system (Linux) that displays the character sets in umpteen-dozen different languages plus special characters, so I’ve added some from there too.
I can open my text file in another window and cut-and-paste characters from that when I feel so motivated. It seems quicker and easier than hunting through the entire Character Map app every time.
Sample excerpt (feel free to plagiarize at will):
‽ ¿ ¡ ⸮ Ä á à â ä å ç È é è ê ë í î ï ı Ö ó ô ö ō ú ù û ü Ü ū ÿ ñ n̈ ø æ œ Я :Þ
“ ” ‘ ’ « » ⎖
— (em-dash)
– (en-dash)
Lots more at: http://www.nouilles.info/keyboard_shortcuts.html
More symbols at: http://www.alanwood.net/demos/symbol.html
∈ ∉ ⊂ ⊆ ⊃ ⊇ ∪ ∩ ⇔ ◯ ⌀ ↓ ↑ ← → ∃ ∨ ∧ ¬ ⊣ ⊢ ⊨ ⊬ Ø ∠ ≅ ∇
± × ÷ ≠ ≈ ~ √ √ ⇌ 〈 〉 ≥ ∂
¼ ½ ¾
𝜋 ℵ ∞ θ
x ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) ☹ 血
ə ℓ ſ ∫ ƒ
ϕ Δ
… § † ‡ ‾ ¶ · • ● ■ ◆ ▼ □ ★ ☆ ✠ ° ♪ ♬ ♫ ✸ △ ◅ ▓ 。� ⚓
~ | ‖ ¡ ¿ † ‡ ↔ ↑ ↓ • ¶ # ∞ ‘ ’ “ ” «» ¤ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ $ ₫
₯ € ₠ ₣ ƒ ₴ ₭ ₤ ℳ ₥ ₦ № ₧ ₰ £ ៛ ₨ ₪ ৳ ₮ ₩ ¥ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ♭ ♯ ♮ © ® ™ ✓ ✔ ☑ ☐
™ ® ©
£ ¢ €
Smilies, courtesy of Patty O'Furniture:
WTF: (ಠ_ಠ)
Blank stare: (•_•)
Angry: (ノಠ益ಠ)
Middle finger: (ಠ_ಠ)┌∩┐ (Pit only, of course)
Smug: (‾⌣‾)
Frustrated: ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
Whatever: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Confused: 【・ヘ・?】
Evil: ψ(｀∇´)ψ
Shy/ashamed: (//･_･//)
But that’s not important right now.
This is so embarrassing.
By the way, has anyone chimed on the capitalized ‘today’ following a semicolon?
let me translate that for you:
Missed your period?
<Pregnant pause>
Well …?
Jerry can add this major problem to his list of Things To Do, prioritized just below Restoring The Old Smilies.
Crap. Me too.
I see what you did there.
And while we’re at it, why are the times always displayed as something like 09:52 AM? You’re mixing clocks. 09:52 would be the 24-hour military time and is necessarily AM. Or you should have 9:52 AM without the 0. Seems odd to mix it up. That’s not much different from Thailand, where you often see things like 18:30 PM.
while we’re at it, why is the Calendar an option in the menu bar when it’s not functional?
How would we know it’s disabled if we didn’t have a link to take us to a notification page?
The Calendar exists purely to piss me off.
That can’t be too good for it.
Someone should tell the owners to get the lead out.
Actually, I’ve always thought that a** third** period would go a long way in pulling the panel together.
But I’m like that.