Note that some of the APIs have their own logos/mascots, though some of those were never publicised outside their working groups. (The DOM's mascot is a weasel, adopted after a discussion of whether a particular phrase was or was not an instance of "weasel words" but also reflecting the weasel's ability to slide through narrow branching passages to retrieve what it's looking for.)
I have no problem with a butterfly as the Xerces mascot. I stopped thinking of butterflies as excessively delicate the first time I saw a crowd of them congregate around a dead turtle (presumably in search of trace elements). Life does what it has to, tries to do it well, and if it's pretty that's a bonus. ______________________________________ "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)
