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The kthread logo is set in Gert Wiescher’s Ela Demiserif.
The kthread logo, spider web images, and strand bullet are all original and copyright kthread (almost everything else on the site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike 3.0 License); in 2004, the first image from a new camera hung drying in a dark room—that spider web image was used in the original site version headers until 2008, and spider web photography since appears in posts and on Flickr.
The kthread name and spider imagery are inspired by “spider-work”, the term for 18th century textiles woven by women on the first piece of automated machinery, the Jacquard loom, which was the concept that led to Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, programmed by Ada Lovelace (daughter of Lord Bryon—from poetry comes code) that continues to inform computing work and cyberfeminist metaphors.
kthread is also a Linux kernel command that arrests a process, and at one moment in this site editor Kristen Taylor’s life, she was [ahem] surprisingly technical.
The kthread.com blog turned three in January 2009, highlight reel below:
