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.
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Photo by Keso S.

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.

Google’s App Engine suffered from increased data access latency and errors yesterday, including problems serving applications. According to TechCrunch, the problems lasted for approximately six hours.

From the App Engine status page:

On July 2nd, all applications experienced increased error rate and latency with read and write Datastore and memcache operations, as well as some serving errors. Datastore access and serving have been fully restored as of 12:25 PM PDT.

What happened yesterday exposed a couple of interesting weaknesses for App Engine.

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We have exciting news to share. As you may have noticed, we made some changes to the Pingdom website yesterday, and the main thing we added was a new account type that many of you are going to love: Pingdom Free.

Now, for the first time ever, you can use Pingdom for free. We’re not talking about a free trial, but a completely free account that you can use for as long as you like, no strings attached.

In other words, you are getting a professional uptime monitoring service for free. With the Pingdom service, you’ll be the first to know when your site goes down.

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If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that we love everything geeky, and we have often put together themed galleries that appeal to tech geeks like ourselves.

Here is a collection of some of the geekiest galleries that have come and gone on this blog.

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Wordpress.com, the popular blogging service from Automattic, has some interesting growth statistics posted on its website. Among other things, there is a graph showing how many new blogs are created on the service each day.

Based on the graphs that Automattic provides us with, it’s actually not that difficult to estimate how much Wordpress.com will grow in 2009. Which, of course, was a temptation we couldn’t resist!

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Operating systems on supercomputers used to be custom-made affairs, but this has changed. These days, Linux has become a popular choice for supercomputers. But how popular? You may be surprised.

Top500.org maintains a list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. A new list was published yesterday (it happens twice a year), so we took the opportunity to go through the list and find out what OS the top 20 supercomputers are using.

It took some work, but the results are interesting.

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