[Haskell-cafe] Re: Against cuteness

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:22:41 +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote:

2009/3/13 Benjamin L. Russell :

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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:11:15 -0500, Gregg Reynolds wrote:

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Why even bother discussing whether a potential mascot should be cute or not? You guys should come up with new ideas instead of simply stating what you *don't* want. :)

Good point. Okay, here's a suggestion: Consider the following logo: Silver red monad.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silver_red_monad.png This logo "[s]ignifies balance between consumption and production," and is the "Official Symbol of Technocracy - http://www.technocracy.org/." The above-mentioned logo is essentially a silver-red variation of the Yin-Yang symbol without the dots on both ends. Then consider the background of the following Yin-Yang symbol: Yin-Yang Symbol (on a swirling orange-gold background) http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_236/1202779093o0VB6w.jpg Given that the representation of the Pythagorean monad can already be considered as a portion of the Yin-Yang symbol (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Greek_philosophy)), why not take the background for the above-mentioned Yin-Yang symbol, superimpose the silver-red monad, and then simply superimpose representations of the Pythagorean monad as gradiated halos where there are dots in a traditional Yin-Yang symbol? We would then have a silver-red monad that closely resembles a Yin-Yang symbol, except that the dots would each be surrounded by a gradiated halo representing a monad, on a wavy orange-gold background: essentially, a pair of Pythagorean monads in a silver-red monad on a distinctive background. This symbol would represent the three-way balance between purity (symbolized by the red), laziness (symbolized by the silver), and monads (symbolized by the dots surrounded by halos). I don't have time to craft the image right now, but I may be able to come up with something after lunch. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^