SMF

[Matt2matt2002]

Just noticed the see-saw and simple machine forum notice on the top right of the page

Is this new? And what does it signify?

Matt - who may well have missed seeing this or the past 6 moths!

[rualexander]

Its been there for years.
Its the name of the forum software used here.
http://www.simplemachines.org/

[Danneaux]

Hi Matt!

No...that logo's been there the whole time.

The logo isn't a teeter-totter per se; it is instead a fulcrum and lever illustrating the SMF motto, borrowed from Archimedes: "Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth". With a teeter-totter, the fulcrum is in the center; you move the kid at the other end, unless he's heavier in which case he moves you. If you moved the fulcrum, the little kid could lift the big kid. Same principle.

Some people think the Simple Machines Forum isn't a see-saw; it is the light-through-a-prism from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album cover. That is incorrect. The PF prism bends the light down, not straight through. The logo is, indeed, a lever and fulcrum.

Good question, Matt!

Best,

Dan.

[in4]

 That simple machines logo remind me of Bishop Brennan of Father Ted fame. Having realised that Ted did in fact kick him up the a*** Bishop Brennan turns up at the Pariochial House, cloak outstretched, to take his revenger upon Ted. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaglEdB7CDs

Here's the Bishop: http://gettingshirty.tumblr.com/post/4415988095/bishop-brennan-finally-realising-that-he-did

[Danneaux]

That simple machines logo remind me of Bishop Brennan of Father Ted fame.

You, Ian, are a man of vision.

Best,

Dan.