There appears to be a new trend of putting cute animals on your HTTP 404 page. Twitter has a "Fail Whale", and now Tumblr has "TumblBeasts": http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/tumblr-adds-oatmeals-suggested-tumbeasts-4... Perhaps we can have an easy way to make Lisp-based web sites use the "powered by alien technology" cute green creature? :) -- Dan
On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
There appears to be a new trend of putting cute animals on your HTTP 404 page. Twitter has a "Fail Whale", and now Tumblr has "TumblBeasts":
http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/tumblr-adds-oatmeals-suggested-tumbeasts-4...
Perhaps we can have an easy way to make Lisp-based web sites use the "powered by alien technology" cute green creature? :)
I think Hunchentoot should use a variation on this one:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Weinreb <dlw@itasoftware.com> wrote:
There appears to be a new trend of putting cute animals on your HTTP 404 page. Twitter has a "Fail Whale", and now Tumblr has "TumblBeasts":
http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/tumblr-adds-oatmeals-suggested-tumbeasts-4...
Perhaps we can have an easy way to make Lisp-based web sites use the "powered by alien technology" cute green creature? :)
do we really want to associate lisp with failure? ;-) -- Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>
I'm torn between considering this thread as harmless silliness and ignoring it, and making a serious suggestion. Consistency has never been a priority... My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex. You can see a small image of it here http://www.franz.com/~smh/rex.jpg and see the interpretation here http://www.franz.com/~smh/lambda.jpg . Perhaps an animated gif that slowly blend oscillated between the two would be optimally cute. Warning -- I snarfed both of these images from the web long ago -- can't remember where -- but I don't know if they might be encumbered by any IP rights. In any case, if some list member with more time than sense wanted to tackle the project, new unencumbered images could easily be created.
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Steve Haflich wrote:
My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex.
It might be risky to associate lisp with both a dinosaur, and an outdated interpretation of how that dinosaur looked in life - it's now much more widely believed that the theropod dinosaurs (including T. rex) did not stand upright with their tails on the ground but rather held their bodies horizontal using their tails as counterweights. e.g., <http://zletter.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sinosauropteryx_prima.gif> or many of the other google image results for theropod balance. warmest regards, Ralph Raffael Cavallaro raffaelcavallaro@me.com
Indeed, there is no evidence T. rex ever mastered lambda calculus, but that wasn't the point. To me the similarity between the figures was provoking. T. rex in popular culture is considered powerful and formidable.
If we're looking for an animal that's mastered the lambda calculus, clearly we should go with ouroboros. On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Steve Haflich wrote:
Indeed, there is no evidence T. rex ever mastered lambda calculus, but that wasn't the point.
To me the similarity between the figures was provoking. T. rex in popular culture is considered powerful and formidable.
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Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Steve Haflich wrote:
My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex.
It might be risky to associate lisp with both a dinosaur, and an outdated interpretation of how that dinosaur looked in life Indeed, the "Lisp is as old as the dinosaurs" is a real problem, and they really didn't stand that way.
What we need is something that connotes power, since Lisp is a powerful language, and we need something that really does stand that way. How about Godzilla? Unforunately, not too many images of him are taken from the side; the best I found is: http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100824212539/godzilla/images/a/a5/Le... and it doens't really solve the "dinosaur" problem. I'd still go for the "alien technology" guy. I won't send any more mail about this; it's too silly. -- Dan
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 19:23, Daniel Weinreb <dlw@itasoftware.com> wrote:
My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex.
It might be risky to associate lisp with both a dinosaur, and an outdated interpretation of how that dinosaur looked in life
Indeed, the "Lisp is as old as the dinosaurs" is a real problem, and they really didn't stand that way.
What we need is something that connotes power, since Lisp is a powerful language, and we need something that really does stand that way. How about Godzilla?
Unforunately, not too many images of him are taken from the side; the best I found is:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100824212539/godzilla/images/a/a5/Le...
and it doens't really solve the "dinosaur" problem. I'd still go for the "alien technology" guy. I won't send any more mail about this; it's too silly.
-- Dan
I like the polar bear suggestion: http://twitter.com/#!/NeilCJames/status/33222014655266817 But the Alien is also very good with the plus that it's already done :-) http://www.lisperati.com/logo.html Jorge -- http://jorgetavares.com
Has a chameleon been suggested? That would try to evoke an important aspect of the language. Maybe, as Steve suggested, as an animated gif of changing colors.... Charles On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Daniel Weinreb <dlw@itasoftware.com> wrote:
Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Steve Haflich wrote:
My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex.
It might be risky to associate lisp with both a dinosaur, and an outdated interpretation of how that dinosaur looked in life
Indeed, the "Lisp is as old as the dinosaurs" is a real problem, and they really didn't stand that way.
What we need is something that connotes power, since Lisp is a powerful language, and we need something that really does stand that way. How about Godzilla?
Unforunately, not too many images of him are taken from the side; the best I found is:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100824212539/godzilla/images/a/a5/Le...
and it doens't really solve the "dinosaur" problem. I'd still go for the "alien technology" guy. I won't send any more mail about this; it's too silly.
-- Dan
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Charles Sullivan <sullivan.charlesg@gmail.com> wrote:
Has a chameleon been suggested? That would try to evoke an important aspect of the language. Maybe, as Steve suggested, as an animated gif of changing colors....
I associate the Chameleon with SuSE Linux --- probably not worth adding that confusion to the mix. -tree -- Tom Emerson tremerson@gmail.com http://treerex.blogspot.com/
We need a sheep as a logo. Given that you can write lisp in lisp, it's really the language to "lamb da lamb"... -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Charles Sullivan <sullivan.charlesg@gmail.com> wrote:
Has a chameleon been suggested?
A lizard: http://normal-null.de/lisp_logo.php Edi.
My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex. You
hrm, a dinosaur... well, if i think of the general attitude of the CL community... :) -- attila Notice your eroding (digital) freedom, and do something about it! PGP: 2FA1 A9DC 9C1E BA25 A59C 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 OTR XMPP: 8647EEAC EA30FEEF E1B55146 573E52EE 21B1FF06
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