Evolution of tech company logos. There's clearly a trend toward more iconic logos, but the older ones are certainly more fun to look at. I'd take wizened dinosaur fish and 1,000-armed flaming deities over plain text any day.

This story about an iMac and bumbling Danish police benefits a lot from being a contemporary of Zoolander.

Recruit has a pretty neat advertisement that's a lot like the recent Jumper commercials. But instead of a kid teleporting through commercials, it's a fat guy running through the web. I'm not going to try to explain it further, just take a look here.

Very well-executed ads for an Olympic sponsor. Too bad we don't really have morphing T1000 athletes to compete for our amusement.

The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" aka "trash vortex" is a giant "'plastic soup' of waste" twice the size of the continental US. I'll bet reporters live for this kind of article. It's not every day you get to think of as many possible ways to describe a "slowly rotating mass of rubbish-laden water." I had fun just typing that!

Legend has it that occasionally a large group of rats will fuse together into a giant entity known as a rat king. Oh man, I wish stuff like this actually happened in real life. Well.. maybe not this one. But something similarly cool with less vermin.

I lost a couple of hours today to The Powder Game, an updated version of the venerable Falling Sand Game. As with Line Rider, looks like there are many talented fans out there with a lot of free time.