You might wonder (or not) why my site uses a fly agaric as the “favicon”.

Short excurse into icon design: an icon should be small, recognizable (the “remember me” effect) and maybe even have something to do with what it links to.

The technical constraints for this kind of icon (the icon you see next to the web site in your browser’s tab bar or the list of bookmarks - wow, you have me bookmarked? Thanks a lot!) are - at least if you don’t want it squished to unrecognizability - a standard Windows icon resource, 16x16 pixels, as few colours as you dare.

I’m not an artist, and I haven’t seen anybody use a fly agaric for this purpose yet, and boy is it recognizable. Well, I fail on the third quality as it doesn’t have anything to do with my site, but oh well. Ok, maybe my site is like a fly agaric, pretty from afar but possibly lethal and not that useful for anything else.

And it isn’t that hard to draw when you have to do it pixel by pixel, and that’s not bad either as I’m no artist.