Benjamin L.Russell <[email protected]> writes: >>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
> Sorry, but I cannot agree with you. I actually moved from New York to > Tokyo partly because of the cuteness culture > 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. So it seems we'll either lose the cuteness-loving Japanese, or the slick and cool New Yorkers. A solution would be to find something that is interpreted as cute in Japan, and chiq in New York - but as we don't want everybody else to leave either, we probably want to avoid anything pornographic. Tricky. > You can still distinguish yourself from O'Reilly without losing the > cuteness factor with a logo like one of the following: [...] > 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 Hmm...perhaps this is the solution we're looking for: shiny lambda handcuffs! Obsce^H^H^H^H^HSophisticated enough for the New Yorkers, cute enough for the Japanese, and avoiding the unfortunate laziness connotations by focusing on strictness and discipline instead. This definitely gets my vote. (If I still have one.) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
