On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:17:41 -0500, Gregg Reynolds <d...@mobileink.com> wrote:
>Regarding logos/mascots: nothing personal folks, but I would like to cast a >loud firm vote against all forms of cuteness, especially small furry animal >cuteness. It's been done half to death, and we are not O'Reilly. Of all >the billions of images from all the cultures in the world available to us we >can surely find something that is witty or charming without being cute. Sorry, but I cannot agree with you. I actually moved from New York to Tokyo partly because of the cuteness culture in Japan (and lack of it in New York--everything has to be black there to be cool for some reason), and I absolutely will not stand for any mascot that isn't cute. Here, there are a lot of Japanese Haskell fans who love the beauty of Haskell, and you will risk losing a lot of them if you choose a mascot without any cuteness factor. A lot of my friends meet together every month to study category theory and Haskel in a Category Theory Study Group (see http://www.sampou.org/cgi-bin/haskell.cgi?CategoryTheory%3A%B7%F7%CF%C0%CA%D9%B6%AF%B2%F1), and we all love Haskell for its simplicity and beauty. We like to think monadically. You can still distinguish yourself from O'Reilly without losing the cuteness factor with a logo like one of the following: An aqua lambda symbol superimposed on Planet Earth, representing a Haskellian Planet Earth: http://wikicompany.org/fs/img/haskell.png a three-dimensional lambda^2 logo stand, with the same logo in a transparent green upper portion an aluminum lower portion http://home.comcast.net/~flyingsquids/BlogStuff/HL2Logo2.jpg lambda -> theta tau, represented in Greek symbols of two colors: http://qthaskell.sourceforge.net/ Different from anything on O'Reilly, potentially Haskellian in spirit, and not animal mascots, but still cute. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe