Wow. This is really the official logo that London came up with for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games:

And it only cost them about $800,000 to design.

Holy crap.

The jagged shapes are supposed to look like the numbers "2012" somehow. Frankly, as many have pointed out, they look, well, um, like something else entirely.

The BBC has been soliciting readers to come up with something better. My favorite so far, submitted by a gentleman named Paul Day:

Frankly, he deserves the $800,000 a heck of a lot more.

Blogging will be sparse for a few days. Busy.

UPDATE: Turns out one of the animations used at the unveiling also caused epileptic seizures.

Wow. This is really the official logo that London came up with for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games:

And it only cost them about $800,000 to design.

Holy crap.

The jagged shapes are supposed to look like the numbers "2012" somehow. Frankly, as many have pointed out, they look, well, um, like something else entirely.

The BBC has been soliciting readers to come up with something better. My favorite so far, submitted by a gentleman named Paul Day:

Frankly, he deserves the $800,000 a heck of a lot more.

Blogging will be sparse for a few days. Busy.

UPDATE: Turns out one of the animations used at the unveiling also caused epileptic seizures.

Photographer Amy Davis of the Baltimore Sun should get some sort of medal for this picture from last night’s Spelling Bee, which is now on the AP wire:

Wow. That’s absoluetly pefrect.

If you want to verify the pic, it’s #8 in the Spelling Bee pics here; it also lives on the Sun website here.

UPDATE: I don’t know if anyone else picked up on it, but when given the chance to pick her favorite word, contestant Isabel Jacobson from Wisconsin chose Kakistocracy, meaning "rule by the worst possible people."

A cleverly slipped-in political statement? Maybe so.

Later on, they showed footage of the finalists being given a surprise visit to the White House, including a squirm-inducing group face-to-face with the First Lady, who treated some of the brightest kids in America as if they were almost as dim as her husband. Isabel was barely visible, apparently sitting in the back with her knees bent up in front of her. If I had to guess from her body language, she seemed unsure whether to hide or display discomfort. One thing I do know: every time the camera panned the back row, it cut away before getting to Isabel. Maybe she didn’t display the requisite sense of childlike wonder while being condescended.

You go, girl.

After last week’s entry on the Dammit Gazelle, which is currently being hunted into extinction with machine guns, I was curious to see what one of these lovely beasties might look like up close:

My god.  It’s Jar Jar Binks.

No wonder people are machine gunning them to death.

Which doesn’t make the loss of this beautiful species any more tragic.  But now we can blame George Lucas, in addition to a bunch of hunters in the Sahel.

Dammit.

(Photo by Mak Thorpe, shared under a Creative Commons license.)

After last week’s entry on the Dammit Gazelle, which is currently being hunted into extinction with machine guns, I was curious to see what one of these lovely beasties might look like up close:

My god.  It’s Jar Jar Binks.

No wonder people are machine gunning them to death.

Which doesn’t make the loss of this beautiful species any more tragic.  But now we can blame George Lucas, in addition to a bunch of hunters in the Sahel.

Dammit.

(Photo by Mak Thorpe, shared under a Creative Commons license.)