On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:03:30AM -0500, Jan Depner wrote: > > One of the visual hallmarks of a GNU system - and one of the things that I > > find attractive about it is the plethora of cute anthropomorphic animals used > > as logos and icons. Each of these creatures has a kind of totemic association > > in the context of GNU software ( like bit-beasts ). Therefore we should take > > some care when assigning cuddly cartoon creatures to functions. > > > > [I'll bring this thread round to a semi-serious point in a minute, just keep > > reading ;-] > > > > The elephant is clearly already the emblem of postgresql, the rest are > > relatively free agents. We don't have much in the way of friendly fish icons, > > unless you count PHP?s porpoise (not a fish), Terrapin has already been used > > although not in a GNU context. I think rabbits are still free range. > > > > You forgot the Ogg Vorbis fish. And the OpenBSD blowfish as well.
