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What *is* that icon on the home page today? Recognize it?
Joel Spolsky
No cheap flights from here. Sorry.
OC
That is the sound of inevitability.
eclectic_echidna
It looks like the hall at a school or something in some movie I've seen. Can't remember what movie though.
Chris Martin
hmmm that *is* familiar... It looks like something I see on flags at parks or something.
www.marktaw.com
:shocked:
Norrick
Is it the new CityDesk icon? And a ploy to get people who link directly to the forum to see the CityDesk upgrade offer? : )
SomeBody
It looks like a square, 32x34, with a variety of colors.
Mickey Petersen
A square, 32x34? 8-}
Geometry Pedant
Joel loves doing this kind of thing.
www.marktaw.com
looks like a wave, blue water, white sky ...sort of like the legendary modified BMW symbol:-).
Prakash S
It's Pepsi without the red, no?
Tom (a programmer)
I'm thinking....Ghostbusters. I don't know why.
Xpander
I was going to say that it's a new icon for CityDesk 2.0 but then how could I recognise it?
John Topley (www.johntopley.com)
Joel at his best; he sure knows how to tickle the curiosity of his readers.. I'm wondering what kind of story he has to tell on this icon when he get's back from vacation!
rrobin
Along the Pepsi theme, I heard that Pepsi was releasing Pepsi Vanilla this weekend. Could be a good guess by the previous poster.
DWD
Aurland fjord in western Norway
B#
If Google had a reverse-image search...
Jason Watts
The sea, a water wave.
Pablo
A checkbox sinking
dev
I had a print years ago that incorporated digital art and the painting "The Next Wave." I can't find it or an image but it looks familiar.
B#
A seasick icon. First it rotates your screen 45 degrees, then it rotates it 90 degrees every 2-3 seconds.
Joel
This is black and white copy
Aleksander Slominski
It's a representation of Joel winking at Michael when he came up with the Loop-hole marketing scheme for CD 2.0. <g>
B#
It's the perceived trend of the economy.
Bernard Vander Beken
It is pretty obvious to me:
Smile
Bernard
B#
Waybe it's a new Fog Creek app's icon?
Joe Grossberg
It's an icon saved as JPG instead of GIF, which would have been much smaller and clearer.
Hanan Cohen
Mystery meat. You click the icon and who knows what happens? Should I click it? Hmm... Maybe there's a tool-tip? Wait a little longer...
Patience Constable
> Mystery icon: what's this?
www.marktaw.com
You probably mean "It's an icon saved as JPG instead of PNG, which would have been much smaller and clearer."
Roel Schroeven
It's a direct ripoff of the Fluent Media Monitor Poll graphics - see right column at http://econtentmag.com.
Freddy
I used to work on image compression, so I think it's a good icon for "wavelet".
Bo Yang
I though fog above a creek too. I'm guessing it's the icon for City Desk 2.0?
Nick
By the way, do we win a free copy of City Desk 2.0 if we guess right?
Nick
Sheesh, what are you guys, thick? That's clearly a "save as..." icon.
van pelt
Duh.. it's a "boss key" icon.
!
Hint from: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/oldnews/pages/December2002.html
Patrick Gaumond
Or it's the icon for the ASP-to-PHP compiler...
Patrick Gaumond
It's clearly the delete hard disk and erase backups icon. The small size means several such icons for commonly used tasks can be placed on a small toolbar without taking up valuable screen real-estate, although being small also means that actually hitting the button you want requires some dexterity. By hovering the mouse over the icon, a short note ("dhd/eb...") makes its purpose clear.
Paul Harrison
My vote is that it is the new fog creek logo.
Doug Walker
Looks a lot like the channelwave icon at www.channelwave.com
David Carlson
Roel,
John Topley (www.johntopley.com)
-- Bet 1€ it's the new FogCreek logo.
Robert Chevallier
John, there are still some patent issues, but not in the US any more. I believe some European patents for LZW still last into next year.
Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com)
I stand (well, sit-down) corrected! Thanks.
John Topley (www.johntopley.com)
Joel needs a logo for something, and has decided to make readers unpaid researchers by asking whether they have seen this logo before.
Dominic Cooney
Actually, .GIF does support more than 256 colours.
AJS
"Seems this teasing news is "Hallway Usability testing" for internet applied by Joel as promoted by Joel in http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html and his book. "
Trevor Ash
It's the gradient tool in photoshop 7
Albert Benzer
Surf's up! Turn off your computer and turn on your wetsuit!
Frederik Slijkerman
Anybody else smell a new product?
B#
Rogue Wave logo
Sean Winstead
If you view the page's source, there is a commented section explaining what this icon is.
Brassman
Ok, I'm an idiot... I can't find the comment?!?
B#
That particular ICON, as is.. has no more or less particular significance over any other possible icon Joel could have posted.
Heston Holtmann
No there isn't. The only comment of note in the source is the one explaining the error in 'The Bug'.
Matt Cramp
Bacardi Vanilla.
Brennan O'Keefe
"Look at all the people trying to work out what it is. It's genius!"
Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com)
It is "THE WAVE"
Geert-Jan Thomas
The logo of the cruise line Joel is on
Mike
It's just about the most boring thing I've seen in my entire life. Can't believe I actually spend time writing a comment about it.
Arghavid Slanaz
It's the old Netscape browser icon, the one that spins in the upper right corner of the browser. Version 1 or 2, I'm not sure which.
Darrell
The result of someone who is trained to be a graphic designer. All professional graphic artists seem to produce boring designs that mean nothing to anybody. If you want creativity, talk to an 8-year-old.
non-designer
Bland typical corp logo. I'd prefer some more color at least, just to have Fog Creek "act its age" ( http://software.ericsink.com/Act_Your_Age.html ). If 18K readers can not immediatly "name that icon" I guess it is going to be safe to use.
Just me (Sir to you)
BTW.
Nekto
Hackers 2. The movie. Tsutomu and his girlfriend walk through that hallway. Can't remember the exacty context anymore, though.
Raphael J. Schmid
I've just realised:
Ged Byrne
Yeah and I can see Elvis in there too! ;-)
John Topley (www.johntopley.com)
> The curve looks to be based on the skyline at the top of the page.
www.marktaw.com
>So basically while I'm looking at fjords and glaciers, you can >buy the 1.0 home edition for $79 and get the 2.0 pro edition >free when I get home, saving $270.
dave
Good one! I took me some time to remember this logo.
Thomas
Maybe next time I'll read the other posts:)
Ged Byrne
My first thought was "it's the logo of Hamilton City Council in New Zealand"...
Julian
When I saw that Hamilton City Council logo my immediate thought was Trenitalia http://www.trenitalia.com/home/en/index.htm
Just me (Sir to you)
I don't recognise it, and it doesn't look like anything, so can it technically be called an icon?
Neil
Thats RD (for research and development) when you tilt your head 90% to your left !!
Ajay Srinivasan
nup, which means it's...
David Rhoades
This is some new graphic which is meant to morph according to your preception so it appears as one thing to you and another thing to me. So can anyone see what is was at the beginning?
Rod McPherson
I've been following this thread, and I think I have to disagree with what seems to be the general perception; namely that the icon is an original work being used for a new product from Fog Creek.
You know what it might be?
<font color=White>The Invisble Man</font>
GUMMO!!!!
Patrick Carroll
It's either an okay icon for Fog Creek, or a really crappy icon for City Desk.
Lisa Clarkson
Actually is a nice Icon for a product I have just developed and patented.
whatever
The comments in the JPEG file says : Lead Technologies V1.01
Hanan Cohen
Found it :-)
Nathaniel Brown
I turned my head 90% to the left, and now I can't move my arms.
Umm, I don't think so
Traffic signal - hump ahead !!
Sach
Is it the old logo of Tildesoft?
Bill Brown
It's an ugly button which I'm not so sure I'd be able to remember all that well if I was asked to identify it. I think that's a problem.
Singh, S.R.
Joel made it using leadTools as CityDesk needed a logo.
David Rhoades
similar to the logo used in Heineken sponsorship JAZZ sessions in Donostia (San Sebastian) here in Spain.
Guillermo
The funny answer is the fluid level in my vat of romulan ale (ok, maybe its not that funny)
Michael Johnson
As for the file showing a creator of LeadTools, that's due to Joel maintaining the site in CityDesk. The icon was posted through CityDesk, via the LeadTools code (image manipulation). Nothing to see here folks.
Lou
It's obviously the button you push to change the band-gap properties of a diode.
Patrick Carroll
It's simply a wave and nothing else.
Rune B
Hrm. The guy who posted "It's obviously a save as button..." is so right. But can't you people see this is a plot by the CIA to distract us while they go gallavanting around the world destroying helpless dictators? I mean really, wake up people!
Blurg
Solution: it's the new Fog Creek logo.
Joel Spolsky
I feel so used.
Stress
Whohoo!
Just me (Sir to you)
I claim my €€€!
Robert Chevallier
Posted by Matt Cramp: [quote]"Look at all the people trying to work out what it is. It's genius!"[/quote]
Lisa
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