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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:30:46AM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:45:16AM +0200, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 15:22:52 +0200, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> > > Hello everyone!
> > > Thanks to thewolf, we now have a new design how our homepage might be
> > > going to look.
> > > Here are three candidates:
> > > http://www.pixelcarnage.com/work/sourcemage.org/design005/index1.html
> > > http://www.pixelcarnage.com/work/sourcemage.org/design005/index2.html
> > > http://www.pixelcarnage.com/work/sourcemage.org/design005/index5.html
> > > Any suggestions/votes/praise on the channel to thewolf,
> > > or just reply in this thread. There's also a vote going on on the news 
> > > page.
> > > So Far,
> > >   Karsten
> > 
> > I think the 5th one is quite nice. Clean and elegant. I would prefer if
> > the "the magic of open source" instead referred to free software though,
> > or just plain "the magic of freedom".
> 
> I agree with rycee, although, in addition, I would prefer the old slogan 
> and the old mascot.  "so advanced, it may as well be magic" to harken 
> back to the A.C. Clarke quote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is 
> indistinguishable from magic."

I prefer Benford's Corollary to that law, "Any technology distinguishable
from magic is insufficiently advanced." :)
I would also keep the old slogan and raven. The 5th design looks best
here, the others look kinda odd if you don't have a white background.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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