Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] it's so quiet...
From: Sebastian Stark (seb-lau_AT_todesplanet.de)
Date: Tue Jul 20 2004 - 14:29:29 EEST
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.
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