Re: Why?

[Hodgins Family <ehodgins@telusplanet.net>]

> > 
> > Where did you get that logo?  When it came up on the
> > gnome desktop it immediatlely reminded me of
> > something being flushed down the drain.  I hope it
> > doesn't mean that!
> 
> Actually, the logo is a logarithmic spiral, which has
> the interesting property that it employs what the
> Greeks called the Golden Ratio (an irrational number
> approximated by 0.618) which is found all over nature
> and man-made objects, from the ratios of body size
> generally considered attractive to the slope of the
> Great Pyramid at Gizeh (or is it Giza, I can never
> remember which is right). Thus the logo represents
> Debian's rightful place at the centre of the universe.
> Uh huh.

Some of the other logos considered can be seen at:
http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0004