From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: choice for the new emacs icon Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:41:19 +0100 Message-ID: <85ejbangk0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200802050135.m151ZGDH005052@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcg9juvs.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <85mypzzksd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85ablzzj2n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87ir0ny43v.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> <87ir0maz5g.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203367326 32426 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2008 20:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ralf Angeli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 21:42:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRCon-0006dF-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:42:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRCoJ-0004Zu-Mn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:41:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRCnt-0004HS-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:41:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRCnr-0004Ga-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:41:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRCnr-0004GU-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:41:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.54]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRCnn-0006Dh-20; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.32]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B1818791D; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:41:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (mail-in-10.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.50]) by mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC707240C4; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:41:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-089-152.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.89.152]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3627B2AD563; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:41:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E3EC21C4CE32; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:41:19 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87ir0maz5g.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> (Ralf Angeli's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:38:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/5869/Mon Feb 18 18:42:54 2008 on mail-in-10.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89520 Archived-At: Ralf Angeli 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