Hello all!

Once I saw in the Slackware page, a logo which was a palindrome.

does someone have it?

Do an internet search for "slackware flippy logo"

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Thank you so much! I was searching with palindrome term, don't realize that could be flippy!

Sorry to be annoying, but it's actually an ambigram, meaning it reads the same either way up.

Grateful Dead were fans of ambigrams and used them on a few album covers.

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Should we presume the Slackware BDFL Dead Head already knows this?

I don't think any album covers by the Grateful Dead used flippy ambigrams. But the album Aoxomoxoa does have an oscillation ambigram on the cover - "Grateful Dead" can also be read as "We ate the acid."

There was a flippy sticker that was popular back in the day. I have one on the side of my file cabinet.

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AHA! A confession! Now we know the reason behind the flippy slackware logo.

Interesting word. Not included in GoldenDict (WordNet), LibreOffice 6.2.7 spell checker, my 1983 4.5 inch thick 8 pound Webster's Dictionary, or 1977 Roget's Thesaurus. Probably derived from ambiguous and anagram.

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Ah, I didn't realise there were different types of ambigram. Another example of an oscillation anagram is the cover of American Beauty, which can also be read as 'American Reality'. Apparently if one reads it upside down and back to front [reflection/inversion] it says 'Devil's Kingdom' [can't quite see it myself]. Also on the Live/Dead back cover, the top part of the word 'dead' can be read as 'acid' and the graphic on From the Mars Hotel flipped and inverted says 'Ugly Rumours'.

Coined by professor of cognitive science Douglas Hofstadter, apparently. Hasn't made it into the Oxford Dictionary either. I imagine its use is too uncommon.

why would you be annoying?

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