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The number at the end of each entry [ 9 ] refers to the version number in which the icon was first released; this provides a sort of chronology for potential Ph.D. candidates.
The following are mostly included.
0000000 A subtle indication that those icons that are not already copyrighted are nonetheless still copyrighted (by me) [6]
2000 The Millennium is coming: characters 2000 in the sky over some mountains: wow. Awesome. [4]
2K Icon created on December 31, 1999: HOORAY! for the new year! [10]
2K2 The first calendar month of 2000 [10]
2THBRUS2 In support of dental health and hygiene [3]
2THBRUSH Much the same [3]
3DDOTS1 Dot figures of two people bustling to the left; becomes a random pattern of elevated dots with 3-d viewing; see README.3-D below for this and for the other 3D*.ICO icons [4]
3DFACE1 Face for 3-d viewing [4]
3DIAMOND Three diamonds; logo of Mitsubishi [10]
3DOS2 Characters O, S, and 2; with 3-d viewing, the 2 is closest to the eye. [4]
3DSPECS Red/green glasses atop a button, for 3-d displays; NOT a true 3-d icon, so don't cross your eyes at it [3]
3DSTEPS1 Steps; with 3-d viewing, the lowest step is the highest (huh?) [4]
3DTEST1 Pattern of dots to practice 3-d viewing [4]
3DTEST2 As with 3DTEST1 [4]
3DTEST3 As with 3DTEST1 [4]
3DVOL1 Volcano; left of a stereo pair with 3DVOL2.ICO [4]
3DVOL2 Right of the stereo pair with 3DVOL1.ICO; you can stare DOWN into the fiery heart of the volcano! [4]
3PALMS Logo of my sister-in-law's pasta company [9]
8BALL An 8-ball, as per billiards [7]
A&B1 Assault and battery; sigh. Idea not original. [4]
AALINES Logo of American Airlines; Just Another Boring Airline Logo (JABAL*) [9]
ABBA Celebrating the late, great Swedish singing group [10]
ABE1 Attempted portrait of Lincoln; put a white pixel or so in each eye for a disturbingly demented look [4]
ACORN From which great oaks grow [10]
AEROMEX Logo of AeroMexico Airlines; JABAL* [9]
AFRICA1 Outline map of Africa [8]
AFRICA2 Outline map with word "Africa," in case you thought it was South America [8]
AIUM Logo of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine [4]
ALAMO to help you Remember the Alamo [8]
ALIENS1 Weird creatures in silhouette [4]
ALIENS2 More weird creatures, in eerie white-on-black [6]
ALIENS3 More of those strange creatures [10]
ALOE The healing vegetable [10]
AMONLINE America Online: U.S. map with telegraph lines, triangle [2]
ANARCHY Oh, the hideous scarlet letter of ANARCHY! On a field, sable, the letter A, gules, or something along those lines [8]
ANGIOPLS A catheter opening a cholesterol-clogged artery, hooray [8]
ANKH Egyptian life symbol [10]
ANNOY It even annoys me [8]
ARBOR A tree in the form of the letter A [10]
ARCH The Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, Paris [10]
ARRWHEAD A flint projectile point [10]
ATLAS2 Non-representational Atlas holding up the world [7]
ATTACK WWII fighter attack out of the sun [10]
AUTORACE Well, an auto race [4]
B17 WW2 bomber [6]
BADBOYS Color code of electric wires: BBROYGBVGW: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, etc. But Violet gives willingly. [8]
BADSEEP Bad seep [10]
BALLOON Hot-air balloon [6]
BANDIT2 Jaundiced desperado with pistol [3]
BANG Asteroid stikes Earth; the Birth of the Moon, heigh ho [5]
BARN01 Ruin of the barn by moonlight [10]
BARN02 The barn in a healthier state [10]
BARN03 The barn from a different angle [10]
BARN04 The barn now oh aging badly [10]
BATTERY Battery, no salt [7]
BBQ3 A happy home barbeque [6]
BEACON1 The beacon, from above [9]
BEACON2 The beacon, from the side [9]
BEE Honey bee [8]
BELL01 Bell hanging batless in a belfry [10]
BELL02 The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia [10]
BIKE1 To meet that ever-present need for a motorcycle icon [4]
BIKE2 To meet that same need with a slightly larger motorcycle [4]
BIKE3 Ditto, but motorcycle has high-speed fairing [4]
BIKER Motorcyclist getting it on in the countryside [3]
BINOCS Binoculars [6]
BIOHZRD Biohazard symbol [10]
BIRD01 A nonspecific but pleasing bird [8]
BIRD02 Rock painting from Chicoasen; Mayan or Archaic [10]
BIRDPARA Bird-of-paradise flower [10]
BLAIRWCH From the movie "The Blair Witch Project" [9]
BLDING01 Nonspecific building with columns [10]
BLIMP2 Blimp over a nameless city [10]
BLIVET Or widget, as you like [7]
BLUBIRD1 Well, a silly bird [7]
BLUBIRD2 Another; perhaps the Bluebird of Happiness? No? [7]
BLUE1 Blue words "BIG BLUE" [5]
BLUE2 Same, only cutely done in red; yes, I know.... [5]
BLUEJAY Image inspired by, if those are the words, a postage stamp [8]
BLUEMAN A strangely electric entity [10]
BLUHERO1 Blue heron standing in water [4]
BLUHERO2 Blue heron in flight; from photo by Henry Holdsworth [7]
BLUHERO3 Yes, another blue heron; I LOVE those guys! [8]
BLWIDOW1 Black widow spider seen from the bottom [10]
BLWIDOW2 Black widow spider from a U.S. postage stamp [10]
BMW Emblem of a car; design based on an airplane propeller [8]
BOA Bank of America logo, I think now defunct [3]
BOAT1 Indifferent sailboat with spinakker sail [3]
BOAT2 Sailing vessel under full sail [3]
BOAT3 Line drawing of a boat [8]
BOAT4 Merry little red boat bounds over the waves [10]
BOAT5 More of the same [10]
BOMB Well, a bomb, an infernal device, with word "TICK" stupidly included (TOCK implied) [4]
BOOK Generic book, with illustration and ribbon [9]
BOOKS A shelf of books, archaic things that they are [7]
BOTTLE Is it part empty, or part full? [6]
BRAIN1, BRAIN2, BRAIN3, BRAIN4 Four renditions of a brain; colored versions show lobes. My favorite is the colored version on black, but the others may have their uses. A few pixels of red on the plain version give a freshly-dissected look, but may be a tad revolting. [3]
BROCCOLI A delicious sprig o' broccoli (ugh) [8]
BSNO Defecating bull, yuk, with negation symbol [2]
BTTLSHIP Battleship firing its guns [9]
BUDDHA1 Silhouette of The Buddha [9]
BUDDHA2 Temple Buddha from Bangkok [10]
BUDDY The late, great rock musician [9]
BUG1 An insect, conceivably an ant [6]
BUG2 The dreaded huge, ugly giant root borer (Prionus spp.) [6]
BUG3 Weird green insect [10]
BUGKILL Insecticide [6]
BULLET Cartridge, helpfully labeled 9 mm [4]
BUNSEN A Bunsen burner [7]
BURGER A delicious hamburger a la The Whopper [3]
BUTFLY01 Butterfly from, I think, Costa Rica [10]
BUTFLY02 More fanciful butterfly [10]
BUTTON With a finger-like thing pushing it [5]
BUZZARD A buzzard in flight [8]
CABLECAR San Francisco cable car, climbing halfway to the stars [7]
CADUCEUS Caduceus [1]
CALENGL2 Calendar girl (female torso with calendar) [1]
CALGIRLS Two calendar girls, with simulated calendar to meet minimal standards of decency and social worth [3]
CAMEL Yes, from a cigarette ad [6]
CAN This, together with CANT.ICO, becomes pretty self-explanatory [10]
CANDLE Greenish candle in a candle holder [7]
CANOE A canoe on a mountain lake, where I wish I were when Fiji fantasies fade. I had in mind Lake Louise, in Alberta. [3]
CANT As part of a pair with CAN above: nor can it [10]
CAPETOWN A Cape Town logo; depicts Table Mountain, more or less [8]
CAR1 I guess the word is "whimsical" [7]
CAR2 Odd car before cityscape, or something [7]
CAR3 Front of oldish car, from a bulk-rate postage stamp [8]
CARDINAL The bird, not the cleric; a favorite of many correspondents [1]
CART Shopping cart, I guess [7]
CARTER Logo of Jimmy Carter's Carter Center [8]
CASTLE1 Scene through a ruined battlement [6]
CASTLE2 The chess castle (see Chess04) seen as real [9]
CAT01 Detail from a 15-16th century Inca tunic [7]
CAT02 Silhouette of a plump cat [9]
CAT03 Another seated cat silhouette [9]
CAT04 Another cat silhouette [9]
CAT05 Yet another; somewhat startled cat [9]
CAT06 Halloween-style cat; my cat actually does this [9]
CAT07 The endless series of cats continues [9]
CAT08 Another cat silhouette, and on and on it goes [10]
CATCHER2 It combs dreams out of the aether and such [10]
CATSEYE2 Drawn from life: Her Royal Hairness <> [10]
CBS CBS eye logo (not as interesting as NBC's peacock) [4]
CELLULAR Cellular phone [6]
CENT One red penny, a nearly useless coin [7]
CHAINS4 A symmetric design [7]
CHAOS1 Mandelbrot set; there exist better versions of this [1]
CHAOS2 Says here this is an I CHING ideogram meaning chaos, copied from a calligraphy print by Yunn Pann [5]
CHEMLAB Lab apparatus [7]
CHESS03 A knight chess piece against a chessboard [6]
CHESS04 Similar, with a castle or rook [9]
CHESS05 Again, but with a bishop [9]
CHESS06 Just a pawn in your game [10]
CHESS07 The queen Herself [10]
CHESS08 The king, a fairly useless piece, actually [10]
CHESS09 Another knight; different style [10]
CHESTCT Computerized tomographic slice of the chest [7]
CHILI [ 10 ]
CHKRBRD3 A checkerboard [8]
CIGS2 Two cigarettes in their natural states, unretouched [3]
CIGS3 A nameless packet of cigarettes: fear it [6]
CLOCK That annoying little OS/2 clock, cognate with the Windoze hourglass, q.v. [6]
CLOSPIN Yes, a clothespin [6]
CLOVER The lucky, four-leafed variety [7]
CLUBLJ Modified from the logo of my gym (Club La Jolla) [10]
COLUMNS1 Columns with white figure [9]
COLUMNS2 Similar, but more enigmatic [9]
COMANCHE U.S. Army cybercopter [9]
COMBLOCK Plain old boring combination lock [9]
COMET Comet, telescopic view [5]
COMPASS Compass rose [5]
CONTOUR A steep place on a contour map [10]
COOLER A water cooler, with characters H20; thrilling, huh? [4]
COSMOS Moon and stars, mostly for EZ-Cosmos [1]
COWBOY Just a lonesome cowpoke [8]
COYOLXA2 The deceased goddess Coyolxauhqui, from the monolith found at the Great Pyramid in Mexico City; colors arbitrary [10]
CPM Letters CP/M; for all those old CP/M programs hanging around on your hard disk, of which I'm sure there are myriads [6]
CRAB01 A crab [8]
CRASH1 Word CRASH, with explosion [6]
CRASH2 Two racing cars, one of which is in trouble (recall the racing motto: "Keep the rubber side down.") [6]
CREATIVE Supposedly Chinese symbols meaning Creative Power; see also CRISIS.ICO for my confession of Kanji helplessness [10]
CREATUR1 A two-headed inhabitant of my dreams [8]
CREATUR2 Another [8]
CREATUR3 Another dream creature: it develops inside a banana skin, and it has a single eye like an egg yolk [10]
CRISIS Supposedly Chinese for "crisis" or "danger;" would appreciate confirmation from someone knowledgeable. Round- [4]
CROSS04 A four-pointed star; fun to tinker with the colors [6]
CROSS05 A just slightly boring Maltese cross [7]
CROSS06 Nonrepresentational thing; vaguely Christian [8]
CROSS07 Another cross, more strongly Christian [8]
CROSS08 Christian variety cross, uh, floating [9]
CROSS09 Starry crosses [9]
CROSS10 Irish Celtic cross [9]
CROSS11 The crosses in this collection never seem to end [10]
CROSS12 Patriarchal cross with an odd shadow [10]
CROW [10]
CRUCFIG Rock painting from Cueva de la Malinche; Colonial or Late Postclassic Mesoamerican [10]
CRUISE1 Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines logo [3]
CRUISEMS Just your routine little cruise missile [6]
CRYPTO From cover and chapter heads of "Cryptonomicon," by Neal Stephenson [10]
CURVES Colored holes overlapping one another [10]
CUT&PSTE Scissors and paste pot [6]
DAGGER A dagger [3]
DANCER Tripping the light fantastic [8]
DARWIN Fairly self-explanatory: fish with feet [9]
DATA Data both analog and digital, being processed or something [10]
DAYODEAD Mexican Day of the Dead image: half face, half skull [9]
DBLDKR London double-decker bus [9]
DDAY44 Shot-up Nazi flag; actually completed June 6, 1994 [4]
DELTA Delta Airlines logo; (JABAL*) [3]
DERRICK Sunset view of an oil field [7]
DESIGN01 "Aztec" design from a painting by Diego Rivera [10]
DESIGN02 B/W design [10]
DESIGN04 Another B/W design [10]
DICE Pair 'o dice [6]
DISH Satellite dish [7]
DISKETTE Everybody's gotta make one of these [7]
DOG01 Silhouette of a dog [9]
DOG02 Another [9]
DOG03 Silhouette of plump, seated dog [9]
DOG04 Dog silhouette [10]
DOLPHIN1 Dolphin grinning, his head out of the water [6]
DOLPHIN2 Lonesome dolphin lurking in deepish waters [10]
DOLPHIN3 Dolphin merrily leaps from the water [10]
DOME A dome [6]
DOMINO Homage, more or less, to the television series "Twin Peaks" [10]
DOOROPEN Same door as DOOR_3 but opened; some sorta dumb message here? [2]
DOOR_3 Door in a battered brick wall (into Hotel California?) [2]
DOPPLER1 Color-mapped Doppler ultrasound examination of the carotids [5]
DOVE Peaceful little critter [8]
DRAGON The English rather than the Chinese variety [10]
DUALBOOT Two boots, for OS/2 literalists who are still running DOS and who want to do that "dual boot" thang; or for foot fetishists [1]
DUMMY From the wonderful "For Dummies" series of books [6]
E-MAIL Electronic mailbox or whatever [9]
EAGLE1 Face shot of an eagle [4]
EAGLE2 Aztec design of eagle-warrior, unless it's a vulture [4]
EAGLE3 Eagle, stretching its wings, I guess [4]
EAGLE4 Eagle stooping [9]
EAGLEMAN Painterly drawing of an eagle-man [10]
EAR Ear, with musical notes [6]
EARRING One of the earrings my Significent Other makes [7]
EARTH Portrait of our magnificent planet from space [9]
EASTER1 The Tomb, with stone rolled away; from the Gospel of Mark, not Luke [6]
EATATBLU Okay, a frank but unpaid plug for Blues, my favorite Cape Town restaurant [9]
EBUNNY Easter bunny, with eggs [6]
ECG Electrocardiogram tracing [6]
EIFFEL The tower in Paris [10]
ELEPH1 Elephant silhouette, sniffing the air for danger [9]
ELEPH2 Very similar to ELEPH1, but animal is just ambling along [9]
ELEPH3 Another elephant silhouette [10]
ENTWINED Male and female symbols [6]
EQUUS1 The front end of a horse, neighing or threatening to bite [4]
ESTERISL Stone head from Easter Island (a "Long-Ear," if you like); I have seen a way better one of these, somewhere [4]
EYECON1 Eye and eyebrow, for the delightful EYECON program which is unfortunately an OS/2 program: an eye on the screen follows the cursor around; one of the many things I miss about OS/2 [5]
EYECON2 Bloodshot eye [6]
FACE07 Man's face; no, not a Kennedy [1]
FACE08 A less representational face [6]
FACE09 Sort of scrambled and nonrepresentational [7]
FACE10 A doubled, exaggerated Black stereotype [7]
FACE11 Odd; grey with headdress; okay, I <> faces [7]
FACE15 Profile; sort of nonrepresentational [7]
FACE16 Profile with shadow [7]
FACE18 Another in a profile series [7]
FACE19 Face it, I continue to like faces [10]
FACE20 The ki'i wahine lashed to the port hull of the Hokule'a (q.v.) during voyages [10]
FACE21 Woman's face with suggestion of a cannon-ball hole in her head; just a suggestion, mind you [10]
FACES1 Two faces, more or less [6]
FACES2 White and black children's faces [6]
FATLADY Yogi Berra's fat lady sings: it's finally over [6]
FAULTS03 Geologic slips-n'-slides [10]
FAXN Phone with a fax sheet eerily emerging from it [6]
FERWHEEL A ferrous wheel; sigh [6]
FILEPEEK Egyptian-style eye of Horus [1]
FIMO1 65 gm block of a popular polymer clay [4]
FIRE1 Kanji character for fire [8]
FIRE2 A merrily burning fire [8]
FIREGIRL Sort of a fire-woman icon [8]
FISH08 Fish [3]
FISH09 Fish with ragged fins [8]
FISH10 Colorful tropical fish [8]
FISH11 Logo of El Pescador Fish Market, La Jolla, California [9]
FISH12 A variety of butterfly fish, I think [9]
FISH13 Moorish idol [9]
FISH14 A fish getting ready to be eaten [10]
FISHTACO Really handy fish taco icon: multiple applications [5]
FLMINGO Flamingo [8]
FLOSS A tooth hanging from floss; symbolism obvious [3]
FLOWR01 Flower [6]
FLOWR02 Flowers [6]
FLOWR03 Flowers [6]
FLOWR04 Flower [6]
FLOWR05 Yet another; I wish I knew what kinds these are [6]
FLOWR06 A rose on greenish background [10]
FNORD! Ill-seen characters FNORD!; it is hard to see the fnords, but easier on a black background. Fnord is a mantra in the Discordian religion, as you doubtless already know. [4]
FORMAT1 Floor mat (yes, admittedly, REALLY corny) [1]
FPRINT Fingerprint; no two are alike [9]
FRGBIRD1 Frigate bird puffing out its crimson chest [8]
FRGBIRD2 Frigate bird in flight [8]
FRUIT1 Still life with fruit, electrical banana [2]
FURNACE The Biblical fiery furnace; see (weird) Daniel 3:25 [8]
GALLOWS1 Icon for Hangman game [5]
GALLOWS2 More of the creepy, dispiriting same [6]
GATEWAY Gateway to what? and well might you ask [7]
GATOR1 Ole Louisiana swamp alligator [4]
GEM I had in mind a cut diamond [10]
GEMINI Sonographic view of twins, early in gestation [5]
GESTURE Upraised middle finger, symbolizing health and long life [2]
GIBRALT Rock of Gibralter, a la Prudential Insurance [7]
GIRAFFE1 Giraffe heading home in the sunset [4]
GIRAFFE2 Giraffe face [7]
GIRAFFE3 A giraffe running, with acacia tree in the background [8]
GLYPH1 Mayan glyph "Cimi;" yes, Mayan glyphs were brightly colored, way back when they were new [3]
GLYPHS2 Odd little piece [8]
GOLF1 Folks trudging through a merry game on the links [6]
GOLF2 A drive about to happen [6]
GOLGOTHA Crucifixion scene [5]
GOLGOTHB A somewhat less representational depiction of the Crucifixion [7]
GOLGOTHC A single cross [8]
GOTHICA Gothic letter A; advertisment for my collection of Gothic letter icons [7]
GOTHICD Similar; letter D [7]
GRAIL Yes, the Wholly Grail [8]
GRARCH A Greek arch, overlooking the ocean [8]
GREBE1 A grebe in the water [7]
GREBE2 Back of the head of similar grebe [7]
GREEKHEL Greek battle helmet, Corinthian style, 6th century B.C. [3]
GREENDOR Really strange things happen behind the green door [7]
GRNSPOT This is the green spot [10]
GRVYRD Landscape of a graveyard, not quite as spooky as I'd wished [3]
GUILIN The Li River, near Guilin, China; not exactly a handy, all-purpose icon, but you never know [2]
GUN1 Semiautomatic pistol [4]
GUNS Usually I try not to be political, but could not resist [10]
GYMNIST Inspired by the Year 2000 Sydney summer Olympics [10]
HALOWEEN Jack-o'-lantern [9]
HAMSICK The hammer and sickle of revolution, etc. [10]
HAND1 Kirlian photograph of a hand, with aura, sort of, I guess [7]
HAND3 A version of that awful little pointing hand we all know and love [8]
HANDLERY Logo of the (excellent) Handlery Hotels [8]
HANGOVER Self-explanatory [10]
HARDHAT Protection for construction workers [6]
HAWAII1 Hawaiian islands, with text label [5]
HAWAII2 Same, without label [5]
HAWAII3 The big island of Hawaii [5]
HAWAIIAN Hawaiian Airlines logo (JABAL*) [10]
H-BOMB1 Touching portrait of a hydrogen bomb explosion [9]
H-BOMB2 Similar; both are from photographs [9]
H-COPTER U.S. military helicopter [9]
HCAPPED Handicapped symbol [10]
HEART1 Heart after cardiectomy (the famed Aztec procedure), for Valentine's Day use or whatever [4]
HEART2 Valentine greeting [7]
HEART5 Stylized heart formed by red dots on a yellow background [7]
HEARTS1 A design of shrinking hearts [8]
HEARTS2 Design of heart shapes [10]
HELP3 A desperate face and "HELP;" face looks good in yellow, too [2]
HENCKELS Logo of Henckels (excellent) knives [9]
HGLASS The hideous Windoze symbol for wasting your time [6]
HIDDEN [10]
HNGDMAN2 [10]
HOCAL1, HOCAL2 "There's plenty of room at the Hotel California." [The Eagles] There's plenty of room because the hotel spreads over two icons. What you do is, put the two icons together to make a single image. Ominous colors reflect the mood of The Eagles' song; cheer it up, if you like. Paint the hotel yellow. Lighten up the sky. Things can get too gloomy. [2]
HOKULEA Double-hulled, twin-sailed replica of a Polynesian long- [10]
HNGDMAN2 The Tarot hanged man (upside down) [10]
HOMELESS Homeless person with shopping cart; rather a sad icon [2]
HOODORN Automobile hood ornament [7]
HORNET Unless it's a bee [3]
HORSE Horse silhouette [10]
HOTELDEL Logo of San Diego's Hotel del Coronado [8]
HOUSDAY A hillside house [3]
HOUSNITE Same house at night [3]
HUH5 Ugly Windoze 3.1 program group icon, saying what it says when you try to replace it with a more appealing icon [6]
ICON Idiotic self-defining thing: delete immediately [2]
INFINITY The symbol, with Swedish colors, for no particular reason [7]
INSTITUT Ja, this is der Institute [7]
INTERNT1 Network sort of maze; to celebrate The Internet [3]
INTROSPC The joys of introspection [9]
ITFLIES Maybe an angel, maybe something more ominous; in any case, it flies [7]
JACK A phone jack [5]
JAGUAR Overly cartoony view of his face [6]
JANITOR Hunkish janitor, adapted from the logo of the National Sanitary Supply Company [10]
JANUS1 The two-headed Roman one: guards doors and gates [8]
JANUS2 Another version [8]
JOHNCASH The singer Johnny Cash, complete with guitar [10]
JOLLYROG The Jolly Roger; the classic pirate flag [7]
JOYSTICK Joystick [3]
JUNGLE Machete and vines [5]
KACHINA1 A Pueblo deified ancestral spirit, with a rich tradition [10]
KACHINA2 Another [10]
KACHINA3 Another [10]
KACHINA4 Another [10]
KACHINA5 And another [10]
KANISZA Can you see the Kanisza triangle, made of negative space? [8]
KAYAK Kayak going downstream, as they typically do [8]
KEY Well, this here is the key icon [7]
KEYHOLE And this is the hole for the key [7]
KIBO1 Unauthorized icon of the Usenet god Kibo (a Discordian heresy), with all due respect to James Parry [4]
KIBO2 Another version, another mood [7]
KIBO4 Yet another version; ask not what became of number 3 [7]
KILLWHL1 Killer whale breaching in the Strait of Juan de Fuca [4]
KISS Celebrating the rock group [6]
KNIFE Of the useful Swiss Army variety [7]
KODAK The red and yellow of the Mother of All Moments [8]
KOKOPEL Kokopelli the water-bearer of the Southwestern desert; see also SOWEST3.ICO [10]
LAJOLLA2 My home town, pronounced "La HOY-ya," and thought by some to mean "The Jewel" and by others "The Water Bottle," etc. [10]
LAJOLLA3 The initials L and J, again [10]
LAWYER A fish, of the great white variety; may you never have to use this icon [2]
LAZYDOG A "Lazy Dog" missile, just over an inch long, dropped by the bushel from aircraft during WW II; they hit with the impact of a bullet; isn't that interesting? [5]
LENS1 Camera lens [8]
LENS2 Another [8]
LETBURN The burning letter [10]
LETGRE This is the damaged green letter [10]
LETMAG This is the closely examined letter [10]
LETRED This is the torn red letter [10]
LETYEL This is the ripped yellow letter [10]
LIFE Elements of Conway's game of Life [1]
LIFEFLIT Life-flight air-rescue helicopter [6]
LIGHTER A cigarette lighter [4]
LION B/W lion face [3]
LION2 Lion silhouette [10]
LIPSTICK A lipstick [4]
LITEBULB A light bulb [9]
LITEHOU1 Lighthouse on Cape Cod, evening [4]
LITEHOU2 Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island [6]
LITEHOU3 From a painting by Elizabeth Mumford, Cape Cod, as reproduced on a potato chip package (truly) [9]
LITEHOU4 Marshall Point Light, Port Clyde, Maine, at dawn [9]
LITNING High-speed photo of an electric discharge [7]
LKETAHOE Shows the best aspects of Lake Tahoe (NOT the casinos) [9]
LLAMA Head of a friendly llama [7]
LOBSTER3 Lobster claw and cracker; oh, yum! [4]
LOOKMA! No hands! [9]
LONDTELE London telephone booth [10]
MACAW Scarlet macaw, Bolivia [6]
MACAW2 A different bird from the above [6]
MAGNIF01 Magnifying glass [10]
MAIZE The Mesoamerican staff of life [10]
MALCHITE A piece of a malachite stalagmite from Zaire [9]
MAP Where you are going; where you have been; where ARE you going? and where HAVE you been? [10]
MAPLEAF Canadian flag [4]
MARTINI1 A chilled vodka martini up, shaken, not stirred; with olive [5]
MARTINI2 Another, pleasingly similar [6]
MASK1 Polynesian mask [3]
MASK2 Greek tragedy mask [7]
MASK3 For the masked ball, New Orleans [10]
MATCH A match head igniting [9]
MATHORN Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland [4]
MAYA1 From the Bonampak murals [8]
MAYDAY02 Airplane in trouble [10]
MAYDAY04 Another airplane in big trouble [10]
MAZE1 A little maze, perhaps for confusing programs [5]
MAZEMAN A maze-man, I guess [8]
MDCTLOGO Logo of the UCSD Medical Center [9]
MEDUSA The head of Ms. Medusa; usually she is seen as beautiful; well, not here [10]
MELON Slice of watermelon [5]
MENSA Mensa logo [1]
MEXICANA Logo of Mexicana Airlines (JABAL*) [10]
MISCOPE Skinny microscope [6]
MOBY1 Moby Dick cutting up real ugly, as was his wont [7]
MODEM_1 Old-style telephone (OS/2-variety folder) [1]
MONARCH Butterfly [6]
MONEY3 George Washington's head with traditional mushroom hairdo [6]
MONKEY Fun-loving colobus monkey [7]
MONSTER From the cover of the REM album of the same name [6]
MOON Full moon rising [8]
MOONAZT The Aztecs, like the early Asians, saw a rabbit in the moon [10]
MOONPIE Delicious Lookout (TM) Moon Pie; tastes way better than it looks in this icon [5]
MOOSE1 Moose by a lake under the northern lights, yes [7]
MOOSE2 Moose silhouette [9]
MORPHOSE From probably defunct Morphose game [3]
MORTMAIN The dreaded Dead Hand [10]
MRI_T1 Magnetic resonance image of the brain, with T1 weighting (say WHAT?) [3]
MTFUJI Mt. Fuji, after rendition by Hokusai (1760 - 1849) [5]
MUSTANG North American P-51, in style of WW II aircraft spotters silhouettes [9]
NEBULA1 Nebula, sort of; astronomically impefect [1]
NESSIE From the famous photograph of the Loch Ness monster [9]
NEWORLNS New Orleans street light and horn player [7]
NO1 The word NO [6]
NOEL Christmas greeting: a mail box with Noel, you see (groan) [4]
NOSMOKE Puritanical, health-nut stuff; to be ignored; light up! [4]
NOVA01 A star busy blowing up [10]
NUCLEON Board piece from Nucleon game [3]
OAKLEAF Close to the icon of The Nature Conservancy [7]
OLDCAR Front end of a classic [7]
OLDE1 Ivy-covered folder for those archaic files we still haven't gotten around to deleting [4]
OLDE2 Similar, but not associated with a folder [6]
OLYMPIC1 Olympic games logo [3]
OPUS The penguin from "Outland," by Berkeley Breathed (copyright, presumably) [6]
ORGCHART An organization chart [5]
OSTRICH Face of an ostrich [4]
OVTHERE Finger pointing left [2]
PAINTS Tube of oil paint and brush [9]
PANDA Bai Yun, at the San Diego zoo [7]
PARIS Cribbed from Klee or Miro or somebody Impressionistic [8]
PCLIP05 Paper clips [10]
PCOM1 Telephone receiver with P COM (as in ProComm) [1]
PDERNAL1 Mt. Pedernal, the mountain so often painted by Georgia O'Keeffe [7]
PDERNAL2 Similar, with trademark O'Keeffe-style cow skull [7]
PEACOCK Symbol of N.B.C., sort of [4]
PEASIGN Okay, this is from MY generation, so I can do what I want with it: semaphore for N and D, as in Nuclear Disarmament, which is still a good idea [10]
PEDALS The one on the right makes it go, the one on the left makes it stop [10]
PEGASUS The flying horse from Greek mythology [8]
PELICAN1 Face view of brown pelican, South America [5]
PEN1 Tip of fountain pen; for word processor [5]
PEN2 Tip of ballpoint pen; for ditto [5]
PENGUIN1 Actually, a couple of 'em [4]
PENGUIN2 There is no such thing as too many penguins. [6]
PGLYPH1 Southwestern petroglyph [7]
PGLYPH2 Hawaiian petroglyph [8]
PIG Kind of a non-representational pig [8]
PLANE1 Passenger jet taking off into the sun [8]
PLANE2 Passenger jet taking off, period [8]
PLANE3 Another plane taking off (Southwest Airlines, I think) [8]
PLANE4 Much more bellicose plane, against Maxfield Parrish sky [9]
PLANE5 Fatter version of Plane4 [9]
PLANT A stylized plant [9]
PLATYPS1 I find a platypus nearly impossible to draw [8]
PLATYPS2 See what I mean? [8]
PLUMB1 In honor of the wonders of the plumb line [9]
PLUMB2 Similar honor [9]
POISON Poison bottle [8]
PORN Gynecological view (vile and <> included; available only by persuasive request from responsible adults) [2]
POWER Southwestern non-representational design [1]
PRAM Baby carriage [6]
PREGNANT Pregnant woman line-drawing [7]
PRINCE The artist formerly known as Prince [10]
PROMETH1 Prometheus, who stole fire and gave it to man [9]
PROMETH2 Another Promethean image [9]
PUEBLO Near Santa Fe [8]
PUFFIN Just a friendly little puffin, off the coast of Wales [8]
PUKE Folder with puking face; for programs that belong there [4]
PUSH A heavy-duty push-button [7]
PUSHING Yes, pushing the envelope. Sigh. [10]
PYRAMID1 The eye in the pyramid, with apologies to Shea and Wilson [4]
PYRAMID3 Nocturnal view of a Mayan Pyramid (Temple II, Tikal?) [4]
PYRAMID4 Something similar in subject matter [8]
PYRAMID5 Representation of the Great Pyramid in Tenochtitlan, 1519 [10]
QUAIL Logo of the California State Parks Foundation [10]
QUOTES Lips, quotation marks: for any of several quotation programs [4]
RABBIT Rabbit silhouette [10]
RACCOON Nocturnal face view of raccoon [4]
RACECAR Frontal view of a sports racing car [7]
RADAR Radar screen [10]
RADIOAC1 International symbol for radioactivity [2]
RADIOAC2 Same, plus skull and h-nu [2]
RAKUPOT Raku-fired pot, cleverly labeled RAKU, not a spittoon [3]
RANDOM [10]
RAT1 Friendly little rat, just sniffing the breeze [9]
RECTAN01 Design o' rectangles [10]
RECTAN02 Design o' rectangles [10]
RECTAN03 Design o' rectangles [10]
RECTAN04 Design o' rectangles [10]
RECTAN05 Yes, more o' the same [10]
RECTBEAR With different coordinates, you see, it becomes a polar bear [7]
REMOTE03 The device with which I manipulate my television set [10]
RHEA Lesser rhea of Patagonia; a flightless bird suggestive of the ostrich [10]
RHINO1 Rhino by moonlight, uttering a mating call; good luck, rhino! [4]
RHINO2 Still ugly and still painfully endangered [10]
ROACH Roach (St. Gulik in the Discordian faith) fetchingly displayed on tile [4]
ROCKET01 Implausible rocket [7]
ROCKET02 Another implausible but lovable red rocket [10]
RONDEL Formerly mostly a decoration of British warplanes [10]
ROO1 Kangaroo, hopping along at a merry rate [7]
ROO2 Similar; the red thing on the horizon is Ayres Rock, natch, or Uluru; sound effects by didgeridoo [7]
ROSE1 A rose [5]
ROSE4 A less representational rose [9]
ROSY Rosy-fingered dawn, a phrase used a lot by Homer [4]
RULER The end of one of those yellow wooden rulers [8]
SAAIRLNS Logo of South Africa Airlines, and no recommendation is implied whatever, and I mean NONE AT ALL (JABAL*) [8]
SAFLAG South African flag: The New South Africa [8]
SAFLAG2 Beehive version of the South African flag [10]
SAFLAG3 Pointillist version [10]
SANDIEGO Outline map of San Diego; just what everyone needs [1]
SANTAFE From a carved door in Santa Fe [8]
SAONOFRE A portion of the San Onofre nuclear generating station [10]
SATURN Saturn automobile logo; as with Toyota below [3]
SCALE1 Balance-type scale; I use this for a unit conversion program. SCALE1 is balanced, SCALE2 is not. [5]
SCALE2 See previous [5]
SCALE3 Bathroom scale: step on it and weep [10]
SCALLOP1 Chlamys islandicus: Iceland scallop [7]
SCALLOP2 A scallop shell; colors arbitrary [10]
SCHCAT2 Cat's paw, poison bottle, and radioactive source [4]
SCHROCAT Schrodinger's cat, in its living mode, complete with poison bottle [4]
SCREAM Face from "The Scream," by Edvard Munch [5]
SCREAM1 Oh horrifying face from the "Scream" movie series [8]
SCREAM2 Another version of this [8]
SEAWOLF1 Submarine, for Seawolf game [4]
SEAWORLD Minimally boring logo of Sea World, San Diego [10]
SELFPORT Me, with jaundice (see BANDIT above) [6]
SF1 San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge [6]
SF2 San Francisco skyline, on a foggy day [8]
SHADES4 A nonspecific design [10]
SHADES5 Very similar indeed [10]
SHADOW An ominous sort of shadow [10]
SHIELD Design from a shield made by the Urapmin people in Papua New Guinea [10]
SHIP02 Ship sailing straight toward viewer [3]
SHIP03 Three-masted sailing ship from a bygone age [7]
SHIP05 A simpler ship, or boat [7]
SHIP06 Cruise ship on the horizon, near dusk [7]
SHIP07 Vaguely cartoonish ship [8]
SHIP08 Adapted from the logo of Kingdom Age Software, makers of Godspeed [10]
SHIP09 Sailing off the Seychelles [10]
SHOE1 High-heeled shoe [10]
SHOE2 Another; no fetishism here [10]
SHOUT Open, yelling mouth, complete with uvula [3]
SHRED2 A hydrocephalic dwarf devouring a file: originally for the OS/2 shredder [3]
SHRED3 Gory version of the default OS/2 shredder icon [3]
SKATEBOA Politically very incorrect logo of Bitch Surfboards, Los Angeles, founded by Sal Rocco, Jr. Really. [4]
SKULLE01 Skull with cross(ed) bones [1]
SKULLE02 Similar [1]
SKULLE03 More o' the same [1]
SKULLE07 A yin-yang figure [10]
SKULLE08 Small skull on confusing background [10]
SLIDE2 Photographic 35 mm slide [1]
SLIDE3 35-mm photographic slide [10]
SLUG Large, black, garden-eating slug from Vancouver Island [10]
SMILE Fairly toothy smile: my secretary's reminder of a dental appointment [4]
SNAKE2 The business end of a diamond-backed rattlesnake [8]
SNAKE3 A snake in the grass [10]
SNOWCAT Winter scene with snowplow [3]
SNOWFAL1 Semi-abstract snowfall [7]
SNOWFAL2 More o' the same [7]
SOCCER Hexagons [5]
SOLITAR1 Heart on a spade [1]
SOWEST1 Southwestern desert scene [3]
SOWEST2 Another: still trying to get it right [4]
SOWEST3 Kokopelli dancing and playing his flute in front of a fire [5]
SOWEST4 Cow's skull and cactus; oh, where is Georgia O'Keeffe? (Answer: floating just above Mt. Pedernal; vide supra) [7]
SOWEST5 More of this Southwestern theme, here from nonprofit organization postage stamp [8]
SPHINX1 The classic Egyptian sphinx [9]
SPHINX2 Another view of the same [9]
SPIDER A common or garden spider [10]
SPIRAL01 Spiral design [10]
SPIRAL02 Another spiral design [10]
SPIRAL03 Another spiral design [10]
STAPLE Stapler [6]
STARFISH Starfish [6]
STAT2 Bell curves, for statistics programs [1]
STAT3 Pretty much the same, with sigma [6]
STEALTH1 F-117A Stealth aircraft, front view [5]
STEEPLE New England church [8]
STEPS Going up or perhaps down [7]
STNHENGE View of Stonehenge, minus the hordes of tourists [8]
STOPLITE Stoplight [4]
STP The oil treatment logo [1]
STRIPES1 An abstraction, I guess; sorry, I guess [7]
STRIPES2 More of the same [7]
STUKA Junkers JU 87, in aircraft-spotter style from WW II [9]
SUB Submarine, surfaced, front view [5]
SUITCAS1 Well-traveled suitcase [3]
SUITCAS2 About the same [6]
SUITCAS3 More contemporary suitcase, with wheels [10]
SUNSET1 Fiji dreams with palm trees [1]
SUNSET2 About the same [6]
SUNSET3 More stormy version [6]
SUNSET4 The sun never sets on the British Empire [10]
SUPERTET Super Tetris (typical dull Tetris icon) [1]
SURF1 A surfer [1]
SURF2 Another surfer [1]
SURF3 Yet another; I live in Southern California [6]
SURF4 In the tube [6]
SURF5 Surfer coming out of tube [9]
SWAMP Swamp, from U.A. nonprofit organization stamp [9]
SWAMPMA Icon of the remarkable Swamp Mama Johnson, singer from the Pacific Northwest; may she prosper and thrive [8]
SWAN2 Swan [8]
SWCHEGG1 A Swiss-cheese egg [10]
SWCHEGG2 Another Swiss-cheese egg [10]
SWCHEGG3 Swiss-cheese eggs pleasantly overlapped [10]
SWOOSH Nike trademark logo [8]
SYDOPERA The Sydney opera house, with yacht [8]
TAJ The Taj Mahal, Agra, India (1648) [8]
TAKEOFF Jet liner over airport, headed for Fiji, oh yeah [4]
TALKHEAD A talking head; a suit [6]
TAO The Way; calligraphy originally by Alan Watts, from the cover of his autobiography [10]
TAP A water tap, leaking [6]
TARGET Bullseye with red holes; shooter is pulling up and left [5]
TEACHR Teacher at chalkboard [6]
TECHSUP Cobwebbed phone and skull that have formed while waiting for any generic technical support [4]
TEMPHEAV The Temple of Heaven, in Beijing [8]
THUMBSDN Thumb(s) down [5]
THUMBSUP Corresponding [5]
THURNITE A pair of legs. If you need an icon for every day of the week, this is Thursday. [2]
TIBET A stab at the complex flag of poor, hapless Tibet [9]
TILES1 A label in my beloved bathroom tile code; the first person to decipher this will NOT be awarded the matching vinyl luggage set or the stainless-steel cutlery [10]
TILES2 Another bathroom tile encoded label that may be slightly more difficult to decipher (but not much more) [10]
TITANIC2 R.M.S. Titanic at an unpleasant moment in her career; certain artistic liberties have been taken with reality. [3]
TNC Trinitrochickenwire, a steroidal compound (the hydroxide) [6]
TOOLS01 Some tools, cleverly labeled TOOLS [6]
TOTEM1 Face on totem pole, Tlingit Indian, north of Juneau [7]
TOTEM2 Pacific Northwest Haida Indian totem [8]
TOUCAN A toco toucan; lives in Bolivia [6]
TOUCAN02 A happy toucan with joyous blue feet [10]
TOWER The Tarot ruined tower card XVI [9]
TOYOTA Toyota logo [3]
TPAPER A roll of toilet paper on a blue background [2]
TRASH_2 Trash can [5]
TREE_02 Just a tree [1]
TREE_03 Directory-type "tree" [1]
TREE_07 [10]
TREE_08 A sort of hierarchical tree [8]
TREE_09 Okay, I like trees [8]
TREE_10 Yellow tree [10]
TREE_11 Red/black tree with cross at its base [10]
TREE_12 Large tree with sprouting tree at base; adapted from Finca International logo [10]
TREE_13 Monterey cyprus in typical Monterey gloom [10]
TREEFROG Lil' ole' Louisiana tree frog [7]
TRIPE1 Fokker Dr.1 triplane. #1 is in combat situation. #2 has black background; okay, these planes didn't fly at night; this again is artistic license, because it makes a dramatic icon. As with BRAIN?.ICO above, I couldn't make up my mind. [3]
TRIPE2 See previous [3]
TRISTERO Muted post horn with W.A.S.T.E., dots implied; for "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire" or whatever [4]
TROLLEY Logo of San Diego trolley system [3]
TSHIRT A tee-shirt with a T, for Throop Polytechnic [10]
TUBTHUM1 [10]
TUBTHUM2 [10]
TUNNEL2 Oh, no: the light at the end of the tunnel IS an oncoming train! [3]
TURTLE Kemp's Ridley sea turtle [9]
TUT1 Sarcophagus cover of King Tutankamen [7]
TUT2 Ankh and cartouche of King Tutankamen [9]
TUT3 Cartouche of King Tutankamen's birth name [9]
TUT4 As with Tut2 [9]
TWSTER2 Tornado [10]
UCSD2 Complete with the UCSD Undergraduate Library, or the "UGLY" [4]
UCSD4 Oh, the official logo of UCSD! Use it everywhere. [6]
UCSD5 More UCSD symbolism [8]
UFW Logo of the United Farm Workers [10]
ULURU AKA Ayre's Rock, central Australia [8]
UMBRELLA Let a smile be your umbrella! [10]
UMBSMILE Or, let an umbrella be your smile! [10]
UNDRGRND London subway symbol [8]
UNIT7 Self-centered logo of my company, Unit Seven Concepts [6]
UNITED Logo of United Airlines; (JABAL*) [3]
UNODOS Counting in Spanish; like several in this collection, looks best on a dark background [2]
URINAL1 Actually, a pair of the tall variety [10]
URINAL2 One of the smaller, wall-mounted sort [10]
USA1 Gun on a red/white/blue background [6]
USA3 The capitol [6]
USADE Generic outline map of USA [1]
USFLAG More or less [10]
VA2 Design [10]
VA3 Related design [10]
VASE Typical figure/ground image; see FACE16.ICO. [7]
VIKING01 Viking ship [10]
VIKING02 Viking helmet [10]
VISACARD VISA card [2]
VOLCANO1 Erupting at night [8]
VOLCANO2 Quieter during the day [8]
VWBUG1 Volkswagen logo and beetle; mine is actually black [4]
VWBUG2 Front view of a 1958 Beetle; I sold mine in 1998, sigh [4]
VWBUG3 Very similar front view [4]
VWBUG4 Rear view of a 1957 Beetle [4]
WAR01 Anti-war propaganda icon [10]
WAR02 Another (less preachy) anti-war icon [10]
WATCHER1 Figure behind grid [6]
WATCHER2 This thing watches you from beyond the gateway: look out! [7]
WATCHER4 That Watcher critter again [8]
WAVE01 Yes, this is another yin-yang figure, actually [8]
WEAVE1 Weaving pattern [10]
WEAVE2 Another weaving pattern [10]
WEAVE4 Yet another; clearly I like these [10]
WEB2 World Wide Web icon [6]
WEIGHT Stereotyped weight, ho hum [7]
WHALE A stylized whale, as appears on old maps [9]
WHALETAL Whale's fluke [8]
WHEEL01 Automobile wheel and tire [10]
WHISTLE A referee's whistle [8]
WHONOZ Delightful Windows logo [6]
WHYDAH Shafttailed whydah bird from a Botswana stamp; tail is actually MUCH longer; it is ABSURDLY long; maybe this is an immature bird [10]
WILDERNS Logo, more or less, of The Wilderness Society, may they thrive & prosper [10]
WINDMILL A windmill at sunset, unless it's sunrise [9]
WINDMIL2 Windmill from Puerta del Sol [10]
WINDOZE1 Broken window and sleeping plant; heavy symbolism here [6]
WINDSURF A windsurfer [8]
WINGS From the logo of Wings Books; see Stealth bomber icon (STEALTH1.ICO) [10]
WTHRCOCK A weathercock, from H rate U.S. postage stamp [9]
WW2ACE1 WW II fighter plane in combat environment [5]
WW2ACE2 WW II fighter plane, probably a Spitfire [5]
XAM01 Cave painting of the San or /Xam or "bushman" culture [8]
XAM02 Another cave painting, possibly a newborn zebra/quagga foal struggling to stand [8]
XAM03 Sort of an animal-headed being, I guess [10]
XAM04 The controversial so-called "Phoenician galley" painting at the Salmonslaagte site (Western Cape) [10]
XAM05 Looks like a hunter [10]
XAM06 Female figure [10]
XAM07 "Monster" from Cave of the Monsters, Site 2, Sevilla Trail [10]
XAM08 Crab [10]
XAM09 Is this a drum, or a quiver for arrows? [10]
XLS Yellow crystals, color not suiting morphology [7]
XMASFLOW Poinsettia surrounded by holly or something [4]
XMASTREE Holiday icon [7]
XRAY1 Icon for my magnificent novel, "Shadow" [9]
XRAY2 Sort of a fluoroscopic view of a woman's head [9]
XRAYCOLN The human colon, revealed by the miracle of barium enema [10]
XRAYGU The human urinary tract, revealed by the miracle of excretory urography [10]
XRAYUGI Part of the human upper gastrointestinal tract, with malrotation, all revealed by the miracle of barium meal [10]
XSECT01 Cross-sections [10]
XSECT02 Another cross-section [10]
XYZZY The canonical magic word; enter it ad lib [7]
YAWAWOT The mysterious city of Yawa Wot, with a flying saucer floating above the living, haunted buildings [10]
YAWN The Yawn (see SCREAM), with sincere apologies to Edvard Munch [5]
YES The clipboard icon, more or less, with YES! on it, bearing with it all manner of lovely affirmation and stuff [7]
YINYANG1 Heavy symbolism and stuff [7]
YINYANG2 This one more pointed than the previous [8]
ZAP Zap [6]
ZIPDRIVE A stupid little icon, but I needed one for this purpose [8]
ZUNIBEAR Zuni stylized bear [7]
ZZGNATUR Well, you gotta sign your work [1]

*JABAL: Just Another Boring Airline Logo: I think I like these because they seem to promise distant vistas and new horizons and stuff, and because sometimes they make striking icons....

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© David Edwards Dated: 22 August 1998. Updated: 3 January 2001.