No goatse.cx please, we're British
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No goat sex at the Olympics, rules BBC
By Andrew Orlowski (andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk)
Published Monday 4th June 2007 19:05 GMT
Mind you, the actual London 2012 logo isn't much better; my first impression was that it looked some someone had vomited various shards of day-glo pottery. My favourite description of it from the Register's article: "A quick straw poll at Vulture Central quickly revealed that most hacks consider it a pretty graphic representation of the state of London's transport infrastructure following its complete collapse on day one of the games."
No goat sex at the Olympics, rules BBC
By Andrew Orlowski (andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk)
Published Monday 4th June 2007 19:05 GMT
The Web 2.0-tastic BBC just loves "user generated content". So when London's Olympic team unveiled its logo for the 2012 games to much mockery earlier today, what could be better than unleashing the Wisdom of the Crowd?To those innocents who have never seen the goatse.cx picture and don't understand the fuss: I envy you ("You watched it! You can't un-watch it!"). But for a safely non-pictorial explanation, see the Wikipedia entry here.
After all, anyone can do better than the official expensive design disaster.
One entry, submitted by "Sean Stayte", won the approval of the BBC sitekeepers and was published as one of the twelve best submissions. In Sean's words:
"Here is my design for the Olympic logo. It is very simple and so memorable. The hands represent Britain pulling together to reveal the Olympics."
Indeed so.
Olympic.cx? The now-withdrawn logo submission
However, it also represents one of the most iconic and notorious shock pictures on the Web, which was originally hosted at goats.cx. Sean's splendid contribution has now been replaced - without comment from the BBC. Sean's original is still hosted here.
Wikipedia, which once again proves that it's the undisputed champ of documenting anal-related web trivia, wasted no time in updating this important page,and has a screen grab here. Get there before some joker replaces it with the real goats.cx picture.
Sean, we salute you.
Mind you, the actual London 2012 logo isn't much better; my first impression was that it looked some someone had vomited various shards of day-glo pottery. My favourite description of it from the Register's article: "A quick straw poll at Vulture Central quickly revealed that most hacks consider it a pretty graphic representation of the state of London's transport infrastructure following its complete collapse on day one of the games."
