On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > El 28/02/11 10:32, Matt Joyce dijo: >> Beats the german eagle though. =P Can we stop the america bashing plz. > > wasn't intending to start a flame way :) > > i think the gnu in a box looks good, and also the idea of regionalizing > freedomness symbols.
Well, <fill-in-the-blank> bashing is fun to a point :) So, to get back to the topic: I think that "breaking chains" is a fairly universal symbol of freedom not tied to any particular country or political agenda. How you work that in with a plug-in box I don't know, but that's why I didn't major in art. > >> 2011/2/28 Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> >> >> > El 28/02/11 10:56, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson dijo: >> > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:06 AM, J David Eisenberg < >> > > [email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:22 PM, >> > > > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > > Someone mentioned promoting the project - maybe directing >> > > > > regular >> > users >> > > > > (non technical) to a site that explains what we are tying to do >> > > > > and >> > some >> > > > > of the articles that have been written. >> > > > > >> > > > > To that end I created a small 125 x 125 png that we could use to >> > > > > help drive some traffic and hopefully get some more people >> > > > > interested in >> > the >> > > > > project. >> > > > > >> > > > > Al Dunbar >> > > > >> > > > I like the text a lot. The image works nicely for the United >> > > > States; outside the US, I'm not sure if it would make the instant >> > > > connection.. >> > > > >> > > >> > > In fact, in countries where the U.S. is seen less as an agent of >> > > freedom >> > and >> > > more as an agent of military interference and domination, the >> > > Americans' favorite bird-of-prey might not necessarily give people >> > > warm fuzzies. >> > > >> > > Quite the opposite, eagles are pretty scary! >> > >> > I second this, the "american" eagle is a symbol of imperialism rather >> > than freedom. > > -- > Salud! > Nicolás Reynolds, > xmpp:[email protected] > omb:http://identi.ca/fauno > blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/ > gnu/linux user #455044 > > OTR: C0CB1F0F 01DB5E18 2D634C2A A4626858 E7C7C3A2 > > http://parabolagnulinux.org > http://endefensadelsl.org > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
