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Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> IMHO, the new evil definitely has the right eyebrows but the rest of
> the expression looks "mad" not "evil".  It should be a smile not a
> frown, for example.  (hence the reason that the > is in the ascii
> version of it).

Hm, I guess it depens what you have in mind.  I think of >-(  or >(
when I think "evil".  Do you think it should be >-) -- if so, then you
are of course right.  I guess we just keep the old one, then.

> Actually, the poke isn't bad.  Some icons I've seen for tongue
> versions have the tongue slightly to one side, which I think looks
> good (especially since the P in the ascii version is also on one
> side).

Well, I always thought that was a limitation of ASCII :) -- in some IM
applications, the tongue is right in the middle, and I think that does
look better.

Alex.