sorry to be serious because some of these are really funny.
As much as i like th basball players aiming for the comet ne - I think the simpler the better, when you see a transparent brain alongside "what do think of pipe smoke" it just becomes too ridiculous."
I liked mr anonymous' octagonal background, but whatever.
How about an opaque, or semi-transparent pyramid with sf on it that you can touch with the mouse and turn around to any angle, a little flash toy (or however it would be done) that would look kind of cool and be fun, and not be too busy, and would add a little modern computer programming to the site that is simple and not distracting (as long as it doesn't spin around by itself), since part of the site is about programming.
On the other faces it can have:
---an
-intelligent
community???
AND
the old symbol.
AND on the bottom something stupid like -
----in
---case
--of nerd
-overloading
press button...
with a link to some sports website