... if found quick enough huh... doesn't it start out like the basic flu virus then gets really worse? I can imagine this being a bioterror if it happened. You know you would think that when a devastating virus such as the plague was erradicated and contained in only a few test tubes around the world it would be destroyed forever, but of course science likes to study the virus.. and enhance it if ever a biolocical war ever was decided, I bet terrorists would love to get ahold of that stuff.

Yeah, that's the mysha photo...is it floating around the net and they just grabbed it? Or is it like Gideon says and is just a stock photo?

Anyway, they said there's no threat. Now, that doesn't mean there really isn't a threat, but...ya know...maybe it's cool? shrugs

Wasn't this image featured elsewhere?

Hmm... sounds like an episode of 24. I always hated that show...

They cloned Shawn's mouse and took a picture of the clone.

That's just a stock image. It wasn't even me that added it to Allegro in the first place: if I remember right it was Grzegorz Ludorowski that needed it for one of the examples he wrote.

For bonus points, what country would someone called Grzegorz be likely to come from, and what does Mysha mean in that language?

Sounds Polish, and mysha means mouse, if I remember correctly.

EDIT: for anyone who is disappointed, I can volunteer a picture of my late cat for distribution with Allegro

Yea, replace the mouse with a cat. Then maybe for Allegro 5, replace with a dog.

The proper spelling is mysz. Mysha sound like internet slang to me.

Here's a thought. You know how we've recently had a competition to replace the demo game? Why not have a competition to replace the pic of Mysha. Perhaps we could all post pictures of our pets, and the best pet gets to be the new Allegro mascot.

AE.