Benjamin L.Russell
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:
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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