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Starfish have been used as a metaphor by countless good causes who picked up a story from Loren Eiseley’s book ''The Star Thrower'', in which thousands of starfish are washed ashore and a child starts throwing them back in the water so they don’t die. Her mother tells her it will make no difference, and the child looks at the starfish it is holding and says, ‘It will make a difference to this one.’ <ref>http://www.domini.com/about-domini/The-Starfi/</ref>

Starfish have been used as a metaphor by countless good causes who picked up a story from Loren Eiseley’s book ''The Star Thrower'', in which thousands of starfish are washed ashore and a child starts throwing them back in the water so they don’t die. Her mother tells her it will make no difference, and the child looks at the starfish it is holding and says, ‘It will make a difference to this one.’ <ref>http://www.domini.com/about-domini/The-Starfi/</ref>

The best friend of beloved children’s TV cartoon character SpongeBob Squarepants, with whom he often holds hands, is a pink starfish named Patrick. The duo have become popular among gay men, and as such have been attacked by the prominent Christian evangelical organization Focus on the Family as part of a conspiracy trying to impose a pro-homosexual agenda on children.<ref>http://www.nospank.net/eisner.htm</ref>

The best friend of beloved children’s TV cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants, with whom he often holds hands, is a pink starfish named Patrick. The duo have become popular among gay men, and as such have been attacked by the prominent Christian evangelical organization Focus on the Family as part of a conspiracy trying to impose a pro-homosexual agenda on children.<ref>http://www.nospank.net/eisner.htm</ref>

A recent book called ''The Starfish and the Spider'' uses starfish as a metaphor for decentralized organizations. Traditional organizations are like spiders – cut off the head and they die. Especially since the arrival of the internet, the power of starfish organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous, P2P groups, eBay or Al Quaeda – individual groups linked loosely by a common ideology and ease of communication – has boomed. It’s not a totally new concept, and has much in line with earlier movements such as that for [[women’s rights]] or the [[abolition of slavery]], but some large companies like Toyota are seizing on these principles.<ref>http://www.starfishandspider.com/index.php?title=About_the_Book</ref>

A recent book called ''The Starfish and the Spider'' uses starfish as a metaphor for decentralized organizations. Traditional organizations are like spiders – cut off the head and they die. Especially since the arrival of the internet, the power of starfish organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous, P2P groups, eBay or Al Quaeda – individual groups linked loosely by a common ideology and ease of communication – has boomed. It’s not a totally new concept, and has much in line with earlier movements such as that for [[women’s rights]] or the [[abolition of slavery]], but some large companies like Toyota are seizing on these principles.<ref>http://www.starfishandspider.com/index.php?title=About_the_Book</ref>