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Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com> writes:

> A good icon doesn't necessarily make a good splash screen.  I think
> the "notebook motif", while very nice in an icon, would look downright
> weird in the splash screen.

Oh, it's not so bad.  I put together a proof-of-concept at 

http://web.mit.edu/cyd/www/

There are also a couple of other possibilities on that page that are
worth thinking about, too.