The ground fell away as the little plane climbed into the blue. The first flight of each plane he built was special — the first leg of the journey of a lifetime.

I never thought I’d be linking to an article from Salon, but this one has a couple of things going for it. It’s not about politics, and it’s from a weekly column called Ask The Pilot. This particular episode looks at the recent trend of dumbing down airline logos. It ends up being a pretty good commentary on generic corporate culture (CorpCulture? CultureCo?). It’s worth viewing the annoying flash ad to get to the content.

Sadly, my current employer’s logo also features a Generic Meaningless Swoosh Thing.