What would an Internet software project be without a mascot? Linux has a penguin or shark, FreeBSD has cute little red daemons, GNU has a some gnus, Perl has The Perl Camel, Java has Duke, The GIMP has Wilbur the Gimp. Even Windows has a multi-Billionaire.
Yet as Squeaksmiths, surely we must feel some shame, for our mousey mascot has no name.
Clearly, Squeaksmiths have plenty of free time to waste. How about a mouse naming contest?
Add new ideas to the list, or vote for an extant name. Let's see some serious creativity here! Try for wordplay and/or attitude.
Hurry! This contest ends(ended?) 01-01-00. A Y2k joke.
Try not to load the vote tally with faux votes, as one example shows (which one is it??).
Some starter options:
Rodent Themes:
* John Maloney says: " 'Mickey' would get us in troubleFeline Themes:
with our employers; let's not do that!"
The reason Tim's mouse is so great (to me) is that he(?hmm) really looks like a mouse named Squeak. --TomRobinson
Also:
Bonus Mascot?! Two for the Price of One!!!
Scroll your page up. Move the mouse to the top of your screen, so ears and eyes disappear fully, but nose and whiskers remain fully visible.
What do you see? Another Mascot! One which inherits from a very different class. Tim Rowledge
This is prompted by an observation my mother made, when I gave her a first look at the Internet, and showed her this site.
I'll crawl back under my rock now.
Please!! who said this??
Oh Wwooowwww man! Faaarr out! When I read this, I saw God. I bow humbly and deeply to the Master. *This* is Deep. *This* is Truly Great, Oh Enlightened One. It shows a deep, thoughtful, reflective, penetrating, and highly perceptive Comics Consciousness; which is so much more powerful, insightful, and useful, than the airy, fluffy, super-hyped, crystal-kissing, new-age Cosmic Consciousness. (Note the clever, self effacing, dyslexia reference?) JeremiahFass
Dyna, in honor of the Dynabook vision that started it all (and still possibly drives much of it)and for dynamic, which aptly describes the programming style as well as the community - Sam Adams
How about Dynamouse? It seems a little catchier. - Tim Cuthbertson (PS: I had always assumed the mouse's name was Squeak).