Xark's new banner

Xark's been due an update for a while now, and Job No. 1 was coming up with a new banner and logo.

How many of the 91 92 people and characters represented in the banner do YOU recognize?

1. Miles Davis, jazz pioneer
2. Karl Rove, GOP strategist
3. Allen Ginsberg, poet
4. Robert Huffman, programmer & mountaineer
5. Alana Davis, independent singer/songwriter
6. Sean Hannity, right-wing propagandist
7. George W. Bush, former governor of Texas
8. The Make-It-Better Kitty
9. Molly Ivins, journalist
10. Ben Brazil, travel-writer and theologian
11. Mitchell Davis, entrepreneur, co-founder of BookSurge
12. Corey Doctrow, novelist, blogger and digital culture advocate
13. Janet Edens, journalist, blogger, graphic designer, belly dancer
14. Bill O'Reilly, just a terrible, terrible person
15. Xeni Jardin, journalist, BBTV personality
16. Jean McGreggor, gardener, zombie
17. George Clinton, He Wants the Funk
18. Walter Payton, Best Football Player Ever
19. Dewey Sasser, programmer, pilot, martial artist
20. Jay Wentworth, professor of interdisciplinary studies and libretto writer, Appalachian State University
21. Dave Winer, digital pioneer
22. Geoff Marshall, new-media geek, former world's record holder
23. Ed Cone, journalist, blogger and community advocate
24. Billy Jones, truck driver, blogger, street aviator, poet
25. Bruce Springsteen, The Boss
26. William Irwin Thompson, cultural historian
27. Jack McCray, author, editor, jazz historian, music producer
28. Johnny Rotten, punk
29. Seth Godin, marketer
30. Joe Strummer, musician
31. Craig Newmark, founder, Craig's List
32. Patricia Anthony, novelist
33. Michael Wesch, digital anthropologist
34. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., novelist
35. Susie Bright, sexual essayist
36. Bugs Bunny, trickster
37. Kirk Ross, newspaperman, Carrboro, N.C.
38. Danny Schecter, News Dissector
39. David Weinberger, author, "Everything is Miscellaneous"
40. Sam (deceased), former World's Ugliest Dog
41. Jared W. Smith, weather geek
42. Robert Scoble, tech-geek blogger
43. Beth O'Bryant, artist and illustrator
44. Prince, The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
45. Three Upper-Class Twits (Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin)
46. John Wayne, American archetype
47. John Sloop, professor of rhetoric, Vanderbilt University
48. Kaiser Wilhelm, former leader of Germany
49. Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska
50. Lala, sexual fantasy, Tiki Bar TV
51. Ben Timpson, artist
52. Cat Power, singer/songwriter
53. Lou Pinella, manager, Chicago Cubs
54. Smiley Face, icon
55. Dan Conover, unemployed
56. Tiffany Jonas, founder, Aio Books
57. Addison Ingle, Discovery Informatics student
58. Vera Hannaford, knitter
59. Bora Zivkovic, science blogger
60. Bonnie Dow, professor of communications, Vanderbilt University
61. John McCain, Senator from Arizona
62. Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States
63. Don D. Lewis, new-media jack of all trades
64. Traci Lords, forbidden porn star
65. Sue Polinsky, computer expert, ConvergeSouth organizer
66. Paul Graham, programmer, entrepreneur, essayist
67. Nancy Watterson, artist
68. Sgt. Dan Conover, cavalry trooper
69. Dave Slusher, programmer, podcaster, provocateur
70. Lao Tzu, author, Tao Te Ching
71. Dick Cheney, Satan's Little Helper
72. Joan Perry, blogger, nurse, volunteer coordinator, zombie
73. Jay Rosen, professor of journalism, NYU
74. Lawrence Lessig, law professor, Stanford
75. Sandra Schulberg, movie producer, book publisher
76. Sid Vicious, punk
77. Mike Dougherty, singer/songwriter
78. Exene Cervenka, singer, X
79. Spartan Santa, gives you NOTHING!!!!!!
80. Gordon Parks, Renaissance man
81. IWW Black Cat Logo, signified resistance and sabotage in the early 20th century
82. Easter Island Stone Head, wearing iPod earbuds, drawn by Dan Conover
83. William Gibson, author, Pattern Recognition
84. Farrah Hoffmire, painter, documentary filmmaker
85. Jack Kerouac, author, On The Road
86. Bob Dylan, poet
87. Jimmy Wales, co-founder, Wikipedia
88. Heino, from Germany, likes his mother
89. Sid Meier, computer game designer
90. Stephen Colbert, newscaster, from Charleston
91. Heather Solos, serial blogger
92. WTF? Remix cultural commentary on the 2004 Bush-Cheney bumpersticker (Oct. 8 update No. 1: I forgot to mention this one last night)

OCT. 8 UPDATE NO. 2: After responding to Xark-hero Susie Bright (her image is one of the tricks in this piece -- can you spot it?) this morning via e-mail, I thought I'd provide a higher-rez, 200 percent version for download. It's a couple of Megs of bandwidth should you want to look more closely or play with it yourself. --dc

Comments

[Dave]

Who is that handsome mofo above the K on the top edge?

[Agricola]

Very pleased to be associated with such an august group.....now if I could just find myself......

[Joan]

In full zombie make up no less!

[Daniel]

Ad: Your face is only half displayed. Bottom center.

[Lee]

lol nice Dan..

due to my recent obsession with ambigrams, i have created (at least i think) i good one for 'Xark' i'll let you see it thursday

[susie Bright]

I'm bowled over to see my name on your list. But I am blind as a bat and can't find my nose in your collage. Could you send me a bigger jpg?

And what about Karl Rove's father? That'd be a photo!

[Kaethe]

Impressive display of images. And I'm thrilled to see Kirk up there!

[Coturnix]

Wow! Thank you - great company to be in!

[Vera]

I made the banner. So cool.

[geofftech]

I spotted Jean as a zombie before i saw myself. I think this says a lot.

[Jared]

This is one heck of a crowd to be in. :) Thanks Dan & gang. :) Can't wait for the Xark! Banner Reunion up in Greensboro.