Apparently, the Institute for Oriental Studies at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil is a real organization and this was their real logo. After the logo proliferated across the Net and won awards, the institute's website went offline.
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An anonymous news-gossip gangled this post. I replied:
-"It's kind of like insisting that this was just an innocuous school logo: (nsfw)
"http://radiganneuhalfen.blogspot.com/2007/03/brazilian-institute-for-oriental.html
"by My Name on Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 11:01:29 AM PST"
-"If 'My Name' was implying that I made such an insistence, then 'My Name' missed the intent of my blog post on that old Internet meme, which was not to declare innocuousness, but to offer verification that, yes, someone actually approved that for their organization’s logo.
"by Radigan Neuhalfen on Sun Dec 23, 2007 at 01:07:54 PM PST"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/19/10756/422?detail=f
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