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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. 
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Trailblazers, creatives and innovators have taken the Internet to where it is today and made it an essential part of our everyday lives. We have selected a number of interesting “firsts” from the history of the Internet (and the Web) for your reading pleasure.
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Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.
There can be no doubt that Facebook is pretty much unstoppable at the moment, a real juggernaut. For some perspective on Facebook’s amazing growth, we have put together this infographic. We hope you’ll enjoy it!
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Sometimes you want an easy way to share your Pingdom monitoring data with others. So far we’ve had public report pages that you can use, but now we’ve added one more sharing method that is very flexible and easy to use.
Enter our new “report banners”.
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll know that last week Apple announced the iPad, its new tablet device. Reactions have been a mixed bag, and a storm of discussion has swept through the blogosphere about various features the iPad should or shouldn’t have had.
One of the main complaints so far has been the iPad’s lack of multitasking. (To be precise, multitasking is a bit of a misnomer here; the iPhone OS has multitasking. What people really mean is only allowing one app at a time to run.)
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The tech industry is littered with billionaires. We all enjoy a good income, but some clearly have earned more than others. Much, much more. The question is, how much money do the really big names in tech actually have?
To find out, we went through the Forbes 400, a list of the wealthiest Americans, and filtered out the people who work within the tech field, or more specifically: IT.
So here they are, the 20 richest Americans in tech today.
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rackr
January 9th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Here is a high speed video of professional Lego artist Nathan Sawaya doing the Rackspace Fanatiguy out of Legos.
http://revver.com/video/232613/fanatiguy-lego-build/
mcakir
January 9th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
good working, 10x !!
Brian Korte
January 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
We’ve done some with Brickworkz as well! Enjoy the following three Lego mosaics from Brickworkz:
Equity Concepts Logo in LEGO bricks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmBe77W2Q5s
Cargill Logo in LEGO bricks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gewsNnjcSzc
Dapper Logo in LEGO bricks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yl8oKVwwcI
Brian Korte
January 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I should note that the Dapper logo includes favicons (those little favorites icons) from a lot of the many web 2.0 companies. Full photos of the final project are online at http://www.brickworkz.com
Play well,
Brian
Sid
January 14th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
the guy who did the google also did a whole bunch of logos with legos http://www.seankenney.com/portfolio/logos
Gwendolyn Choo
January 19th, 2009 at 12:28 am
should note that the Dapper logo includes favicons (those little favorites icons) from a lot of the many web 2.0 companies. Full photos of the final project are online.
nice blog
Regards
Gwen
Hari
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
They are really awesome. Nice collections of logos.
Hari
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Nice blog. Would you like for a link exchange? My blog has pr 6. Please comment on my blog, if you like to exchange links.
makita
July 8th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
these legos are amazing. they should contruct one for firefox logo!
i used to play with legos when i was younger but i didn’t realize how serious some lego fans got. i’ve seen them make CGI star wars lego films. they are so much fun to watch. but i wish i had those linux penguin legos for my office! very cute.