From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: choice for the new emacs icon
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:41:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ejbangk0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ir0maz5g.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> (Ralf Angeli's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:38:03 +0100")
Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net> writes:
> * Richard Stallman (2008-02-18) writes:
>
>> How would we depict a black hole?
>
> If I had to give serious answer I'd say with a nice picture showing
> accretion disks and gas jets or showing the gravitational lensing in
> front of a galaxy. There are some nice pictures of this on the English
> Wikipedia page about black holes. However, I'm not sure if pictures
> like this are suitable for an icon.
>
> An unserious answer could be the drain of a kitchen sink.
The great kitchen sink in the sky... Scary visual, man, just scary.
Come to think of it, this visual is probably already taken by van Gogh.
He has these swirly drain-like suns.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-05 1:35 choice for the new emacs icon Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 1:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-05 1:54 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-05 2:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 1:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 4:15 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-05 3:32 ` Thomas Lord
2008-02-05 1:47 ` Mike Mattie
2008-02-05 4:28 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 7:13 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-05 2:04 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-05 2:42 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-05 6:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 6:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 6:42 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 7:01 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 8:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-02-05 8:32 ` Mike Mattie
2008-02-05 8:46 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 1:34 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-05 11:35 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-05 10:53 ` Leo
2008-02-05 11:36 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-05 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-05 22:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-06 5:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-06 7:29 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-07 3:58 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-07 4:13 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-07 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-08 1:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08 2:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-06 8:47 ` Leo
2008-02-06 9:35 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 1:44 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-07 4:11 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-07 8:22 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 8:56 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-07 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 9:36 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-07 9:46 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-05 4:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 8:33 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-05 5:09 ` Thomas Lord
2008-02-05 7:12 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-05 7:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 8:12 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-05 8:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 9:07 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-05 9:15 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-05 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-05 21:33 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-06 17:54 ` Taylor Venable
2008-02-16 6:08 ` Bill Wohler
2008-02-17 13:22 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-17 15:04 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 15:10 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-17 18:55 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-17 22:31 ` Leo
2008-02-17 22:49 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 15:19 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-17 15:41 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 15:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-17 17:17 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-18 11:40 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18 13:51 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-02-18 14:03 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-18 14:10 ` Bastien
2008-02-18 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 15:58 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18 16:29 ` David Hansen
2008-02-18 18:38 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-18 20:41 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-02-17 16:05 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-17 16:16 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 19:02 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-02-17 19:17 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 18:38 ` Drew Adams
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