Three's company

Three interesting items that came to my attention today:

1) Courtesy Bourque, In an attempt to become more neutral, the Red Cross is considering changing their logo from a Swiss cross to a diamond, so that more aid organizations from various cultural backgrounds can be part of the international organization. I personally don't like the logo all too much, but I can understand the sentiment.

2) Courtesy metafilter and Jen, Forbes recently put out the 15 richest fictional characters. A fun little thought exercise.

3) Courtesy Yahoo News. A satellite image of the polar regions and the distribution of sea ice. the yellow line indicates the extent that it used to be. Instead, we're probably seeing the continual loss of sea ice. It is hard to say how this will affect the gulf stream or the North Atlantic current. But the loss of this much sea ice is disconcerting...