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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:03:30AM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:

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> > 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.