>>> How about a mermaid holding a trident?
 >> At last: a female image.  Who'd have thunk.
 > Possibly offensive to our non-heterosexual developers.

I think it would be a matter of good judgement and taste to keep a
distance from the Eric "BREASTS!" Schwartz style of mascots..

I'd also personally score down on anything anthropomorphic/funny
animal/furry-- too 'cute gimmicky' for a brand of what is undoubtably
the most professonally-managed Free Unix operating system around.
(Let alone that a large number of people find 'furries' totally
fscking irritating.)

-- 
Chris Baird,, <cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au>