::TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, FROM THE TRENCHES::

Kuro5hin is a geek-tastic weblog. Its logo has been a mystery to me, though, for a while. It looks like a close-up view of a broken-ended thread being put through a needle (considering the site's "threaded posts," it's a visual pun). It also looks like the Golden Gate Bridge, ripped off in its middle (and, post-dot-combustion, this is appropriate). Investigating, I find the real source, and it's better -- and geekier -- than my hypotheses:

"It is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which collapsed into Puget Sound near Tacoma, Washington, in November of 1940... It seems the engineers did not figure out the bridge's resonance (sic) frequency, and it shook itself into little bits during a fairly light breeze. It is a pretty famous example of bad engineering." (from the FAQ)

Bonus: The 5 in the re-spelled "corrosion" (named for the site's originator, Rusty) is an homage to Da5id, a character in one of my favorite books ever, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.