I always stopped myself from asking this, not to look stupid. But it was just stuck in my head for a while now. Why is Google Blogoscoped logo almost identical to the archive.org's WayBack Machine logo? Any history to it?
http://www.archive.org/images/wayback.gif
http://blogoscoped.com/files/logo-80-percent.png

Yeah, this popped up before here... there's no particular reason, except that I suppose the simpler a logo gets the higher the chance there's similar logos elsewhere out there. The two logos use the same base font for instance – Slack Casual – and separating two words in a title by color is also nothing too specific. Added to that, Slack Casual is a very distinctive and memorizable font I think, so it will increase the chance you'd think of two logos as likely if they use that font...

Philipp, not sure if the forum is feeding RSS for comment too, under the blogoscoped rss feed. I caught this item on FF here

http://friendfeed.com/e/9ad958cd-8b24-6369-263e-de8cff1ed009/Why-is-Google-Blogoscoped-logo-almost-identical/

I normally dont see Forum comments /posts on FF, only main blog entries

/pd
The Blogoscoped Room includes both the main feed and the forum feed, and has done for a couple of weeks.

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/blogoscoped

If you look at the services on the right you can see there are two feeds.

Philipp
Thanks. I like the fact that the thin-looking fonts hide the long name.

Hmm – learning a bit at a time :)
On the logo similarities, :
well done for legitimate observation! Even same font proportions!! Quite close! There have been law suits because phone companies Swedish Telia uses a pink color just similar to Deutch Telecom of Germany. Deutch Telecom recently lost the suit in court – but such similar logo disputes have been won before. Is Wayback Machine, a separate unrelated company, then they could be offered some kind of symbolic consolation settlement ?

Here's another post about logos that look similar – note there's also a Google service in the mix:

http://www.logodesignlove.com/similar-original-logos

Philipp:
Some of those logos are remarkably similar, but I don't get the British Paints and Pagan Osbourne comparison. They're not even close to me.