via neatorama, click on the evolution of tech company logos! this is my favorite progression, as you can see "kwanon" the bodhisattva of mercy gradually becoming "canon - see the world through your eyes" or something like that. the "nokia" progression was also pretty good - i am fairly tickled by tech company logos that refer to some animal, vegetable (or deity!). for instance, "nokia" is apparently finnish for "pine marten". and apple computer started out with a black and white logo of, it looks like, isaac newton under that apple tree.
oh, snap! forget that thing i said about "nokia" meaning "pine marten". i was just quoting from neatorama, people! i looked it up on wikipedia, and it appears that the finnish city nokia was named after soot or the soot marten. which is also called a sable.
to make matters more confusing, a sable is also a type of antelope.
sable is also a color! here is a sable german shepherd, looking wolfier than usual. 
kids, i think we've all learned something today!
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