Lego started selling their now world-famous bricks 60 years ago, and has a certain inherent geek appeal (after all, Lego bricks are kind of like 3D pixels, and you can be endlessly creative with them).

This post shows what happens when computer geeks combine their love for Lego with their love for certain popular tech companies and their logos.

Google’s fan base is obvious

Photo by Cory Doctorow.
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Photo by Antonio Manfredonio.
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Photo by Keso S.
Photo by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.
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Photo by Keso S.
Photo by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.

Some Digg love

Photo by Scott Fiddelke.
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Via Digg.

A GAIM guy

Photo by Daan Vanden Bosch.

Inventive Flickr logos

Photo by Terry.
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Photo by Graham Minchin.
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Photo by Jaccoy.

Ironport logo

From The World According to Nils.

The classic Apple

From LEGO Fan creations.
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Photo by Mark Yang.

An industry pioneer deserves a Lego logo

Photo by Alice Bartlett.

We love gadgets!

From Engadget.
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From Gizmodo.

And finally, some Linux love

Photo by Timo Beil. (Creation by Tobias Reichling.)

There are a gazillion Lego creations out there, so please feel free to post links to other cool Lego logos in the comments.

As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.

Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.

What team will win Super Bowl 46? How will the site cope? We can only wait to find out.

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Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.h

This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on cloud, with a few other topics thrown in to boot.

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Out of the 59 US-based e-commerce sites we monitored during the holiday season last year 28 scored a perfect 100% uptime for December.

Whether this helped spur on the booming sales in the US, we don’t know, but retail e-commerce spending in the US reached $37.2 billion for the November to December 2011 period. That was an increase of 15% from the same period in 2010.

We decided to dig into the numbers for these e-commerce sites to see how well they did in terms of uptime and performance. After massaging the data coming from our Pingdom probes, it turns out that the sites overall performed well during December 2011 in terms of uptime, but response time was an issue for several sites.

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Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff.

In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending submission of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We’re also joined by Mario Lurig, who talks about using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront to speed up a website.

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Want to be able to download a DVD worth of data in about 38 minutes? It may not seem very impressive, but that’s with the average Internet speed in South Korea, according to the latest “State of the Internet” report by Akamai.

Covering Q3 2011, the report again puts South Korea at the top of the list of countries with the fastest Internet connections. The country scored an average connection speed of 16.7 Mbps in Q3 2011.

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