From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 08:38:13 -0500 From: Daniel Seagraves Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <200006111850.OAA13095@cse.psu.edu>, <3944C467.9891568F@yorvic.york.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [9fans] the Plan 9 "bunny" Topicbox-Message-UUID: b769b328-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Leo Caves wrote: > > ( see http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/screenshot.html ) > > with so much of substance to discuss with the new release (and > as I don't have the right hardware to install just now) I thought > I would muse on the symbolism of the plan 9 bunny... > > 1/ bunnies vs. penguins ? > > bunny: faster, more (re)productive (effective plumbing?), > extensive networks, prone to colonisation, cuddly. Heh, for me, the bunny means one thing - Usagi Tsukino :P That alone makes it worth using. (Am I the only person who has thought of this? :) > 2/ Night of the Lepus > > although not one of Ed Wood's productions, this is widely regarded > as one of the (best) worst films of all time. the premise > rests on the belief that large bunny == scary bunny. Also, the Vorpal Bunny from Monty Python's Holy Grail... :P "Confuse, annoy, and DEE-STROY!" -- Jet Wolf | "Nothing Happens." -- ADVENT "You'd be surprised what you can live through..." -- Anonymous "...A man can pass his family and his name down through his sons, but it's his honour that gets passed through his daughters. He can see the best and worst of life in his girls. A daughter is something far too precious, and he'll do anything to protect her." -- Reichsfuehrer Siegfried Koenig, _Matrose_Mond_, David Oliver