I think this collection of icons and associated categories would be bother more interesting than the current set and more useful. Of course, some of the existing categories (like MacPerl) would stick around.

Backward Compatibility Police

Bad News (alternatively, Regexes)

Beta Software

Bloat

Books

Bullshit

Carrots

Civil Liberties

Computer Science

Conference Tutorials

Damian

Deadlines

Difficult Bugs

Dominus

Donations Requested

Forked Projects

Good News

Hackery Wackery

Honors and Awards

Linux / BSD

Lost and Found

Mailing Lists

Maintenance Programming

Microsoft

Mysteries

Neenery

Parsing and Tokenization

Parties and Social Events

Perl 5

Perl Mongers

Press Releases

Programming Technique

Progress Report

Psychology

Pumpkings

Punctuation Issues

Randal

Randal's Lunch

Red Herrings

Retractions and Corrections

Secrets and Security

Signals

Solitary Genius

Standardization

The Perl Foundation

Threats

Tom

U.S. Government

Weighty Issues

Wizardry

Explanations of non-obvious icons

Activestate is symbolized by this lunatic who represents the guy who thought that ActiveState and Microsoft were conspiring to destroy Perl. The corncob symbolizes backward compatibility because when a cow swallows a corncob, it sometimes gets stuck and blocks everything else from moving through. Beta Software is a toy train because beta versions are usually toy versions. Forked Projects (which I imagined would apply to things like Topaz and Sapphire) is a picture of a two-headed sperm. Occasionally calls go out for old archive files, such as obscure versions of Perl or the lost source for Sapphire; these items are filed under Lost and Found, which depicts Jimmy Hoffa. Perl 5 is symbolized by its most characteristic feature, the glob. Psychology is of course Sigmund Freud. Punctuational Issues (remember when there was a lot of discussion of _ vs. . vs. -> in Perl 6) are denoted by Kudzu. The icon for Standardization and Standardization Committees depicts the la Brea Tar Pits. Threats is the Redeemer, a shoulder-mounted guided nuclear missile from the game Unreal Tournament. The rest are supposed to be obvious. :)

If anyone actually things any of these would be a good idea (ha!), I'll rescale them to the appropriate size and make the backgrounds transparent if necessary.