The banner

[Ari Rahikkala]

Yes, it's black and white. Yes, it's simple. That's not the point, that's simply because I couldn't come up with anything beautiful like Elwynn's banner, and too much beauty would not be nice for Straylight anyway. In any case, the elements of the banner are quite simple: The sine wave was generated with a small C program written on the spot, the jolly roger is allegedly Henry Every's, and... it took surprisingly long to figure out how to produce the bicoloured text.

Suggestions for a better banner are welcome.

Also, if the banner looks like an iPod ad, I have failed my father.

[Kaiser Mors V]

If there was the silhouette of a girl with headphones.. it would look like an iPod add.. thus.. you have no failed your father...

[Shyriath]

Non-urgent question, for after Ari is finished with his paper:

I've looked at the forum from both here at home and from another computer. From that other computer, I can see the banners being used in place of the board names; from here, I see only board names, and no banners. Any idea what might be preventing me from seeing them here?

[Andreas the Wise]

I like it ...

[Ari Rahikkala]

It's probably Norton Internet Security. It blocks all documents in a directory with /banners/ in its path

[Shyriath]

I have McAfee rather than Norton, but it was a similar problem; the Privacy Service can be a bit finicky. I probably should've guessed, it always tried to completely block amazon.com before I figured out how to make it stop...

Seems to be working now, though. Thanks.

[benkern]

I just stared at your avatar for the first time ever Shyriath, very nice. I had always assumed it was some weird kind of glowing bubble but the letters upgrade it from cool avatar to awesome avatar.

[Shyriath]

*Bows* Thankee, though I can't take credit for its creation. Someone else did that for me years ago.

[Kaiser Mors V]

I have no images or avatars... Does this mean I'm not cool?

[Ari Rahikkala]

I could try having an avatar again... I just can't think of anything but the lambda, and that's a bit uncool...

[benkern]

Answer to both Ari and Erik: Yes, yes and yes!

[Ari Rahikkala]

Any suggestions on what it should be? They will be duly ignored

[Kaiser Mors V]

I'm going to shrink someone...

[benkern]

*deflects incoming Shrink Ray (turning it into a colour-inverting ray but interestingly not a Biggification Ray) at the Chi Square distribution (probability density function)*



Feel free to use as inspiration.

[Kaiser Mors V]

WTF?

[Ari Rahikkala]

I like the idea a lot, but it doesn't really have a place in the banner... I might make crests for some of the sancts, though, and I think that one would be very appropriate for Incremental Search...

[Kaiser Mors V]

i++

[Ari Rahikkala]

Actually, Incremental Search was named after the interface feature in... well... a lot of good programs . I use incremental search constantly in Firefox, emacs and bash, and figured that it would be a good name for a sanct whose job is to simply be a "prototype"... searching the space of how to build sancts, partly by making it up as you go, i.e. searching incrementally.

[Kaiser Mors V]

I just felt like using an increment operator...