Stuff we like: Obama logos, eyeborgs and the Somali government

Our favourite sites and articles for this fine Monday morning:

Obama logos that weren’t chosen. Sol Sender, the designer who led the team who created Obama’s iconic rising-sun logo shows all the other deisgns they came up with, and why they weren’t used. Logo Design Love has more.

The eyeborg. Filmmaker Rob Spence has a prosthetic eye, and he wants to put a camera in it. He will then make a documentary. Cinema-goers will probably vomit a little bit in their mouth.

Techno-creativity will save us. “The combination of technology and entrepreneurial creativity drives all real long-term growth” says Bret Swanson at Forbes, where he argues that Obama needs to keep the window open for innovation, despite the financial crisis.

The 12 biggest doucehbags of 2008. The Guardian is spot-on: “Mattel Games. You took away our Scrabulous. For this, you must surely die.” Hee!

When the cars go away. What happens when an American car manufacturer dies? Nothing. And that’s the problem, says Bill McGraw in the New York Times.

Leaving the Somali government? Get in line. The President of Somalia has fired the Prime Minister, but it doesn’t matter, says the International Herald Tribune, because two-thirds of the ministers have already resigned.

Turn your credit card terminal. You can already turn your Jesus-phone into a light saber, koi pond and guitar, and now you can turn it into a credit card terminal. OK, I give in: just let the damn phone run the world, already.