On Tuesday 01 August 2006 17:17, pixelnate wrote: > >>> How about the Japanese Crane? > >>> http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Grus_japonensis/GES000012.html? > >>>size =large > > Why couldn't the mascot be a (ruby) red panda? White bits stay white, > but black bits are red. Just throwing that out there. > > ~Nate While we're talking about mascots, I think I may as well reference a thread on the topic from a month ago[1], if only to link again to Chip the talking coding block[2]. Unarguably the coolest programming language mascot ever. Alex [1] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/200056 [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20020703073036/knossos.shu.edu/dblack/chip.html