I suppose this might be a good time to announce the tentative availability of BLACK t-shirts in the "Haskell Hackers" design, which in fact features a "monster". (Note that I am only responsible for the composition of elements on the shirt: the monster drawing itself comes from a dingbat font.) The design has been on the merchandise logo page for several years (see http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/logos/PNGs/RealHackers.png), but several people had asked for it on a black shirt, and CafePress (our arbitrarily-preferred production house) only recently announced availability such shirts. By way of fair warning, the black shirts are still considered to be "beta" by CafePress: they are more expensive and can only be printed on one-side. Nevertheless, I made a black version of the "Haskell Hackers"/monster logo which can be ordered here: http://www.cafepress.com/HaskellHackers My beta-tester tells me that it washes well, but that it looks more abstract in black than it does in white, specifically that the monster is less recognizable. (Anyone ordering a shirt might want to compare the two design colors; I haven't made a white one available yet, but would be happy to do so upon request.) -- Fritz PS: as always, Haskell.org merchandise is offered on a non-profit basis. A small amount of funds accrue in the account based on link referrals, which we have used to gift shirts to a few Haskell luminaries. PPS: I wouldn't recommend ordering this design on the new red ("cardinal")-colored shirts. On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:00 AM, David House wrote:
And do we have any artistic Haskellers out there? Could we get drawings of these monsters? I'd love to see the 'mysterious and awesome IO' in pictorial form.