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Right now the StackOverflow logo is showing as a squished little caveman figure. Has somebody hacked the sstatic.net site? Or is this a regular feature of SO, like Google changing its logo for anniversaries and public holidays?

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Must have been a temporary glitch - it's gone now. However, for the doubters out there, here is a screen shot of the sstatic.net url. It's the best I can do to prove I was not imagining things.

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hmmm, smaller than I'd like. Why is that?

Anyway, I am using Firefox so the cache-bug suggestion might be the right answer.

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  • I don't see anything. Post a screenshot.
    – mmx
    Oct 21, 2009 at 11:26
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    What are you talking about?
    – Ladybug Killer
    Oct 21, 2009 at 11:26
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    Screenshot with freehand circles or you're lying.
    – random
    Oct 21, 2009 at 11:29
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    Your image link isn't correctly formatted
    – ChrisF Mod
    Oct 21, 2009 at 11:53
  • ChrisF - I uploaded the screenshot to Picasa, but it isn't a straightforward process to get it to render. The thumbnail is the best I can do.
    – APC
    Oct 21, 2009 at 12:05
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    StackOverflow: So easy a caveman could do it.
    – TheTXI
    Oct 21, 2009 at 12:32
  • Thanks to Voyager for resizing the image.
    – APC
    Oct 21, 2009 at 13:26

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If you're using Firefox, then this is a possible cache bug.

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  • It could only be a cache bug, if this kind of logo existed before. What I doubt.
    – Ladybug Killer
    Oct 21, 2009 at 11:50
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    For a while the browser on my Pre was putting random chunks of one picture where another one should be, such as putting somebody's gravatar where the site logo should be. Looks like Firefox has the same bug.
    – Paul Tomblin
    Oct 21, 2009 at 11:58
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    I've seen this bug before in Firefox, it's reading from the wrong cache location.
    – Ólafur Waage
    Oct 21, 2009 at 12:37
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You are fooling us, aren't you?

The red circle shows, that the original logo is displayed. You photoshopped this one. Or it is a weird browser bug showing images where they shouldn't be.

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/9738/kiddingfool.png http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/9738/kiddingfool.png

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    Seriously, why would I make this stuff up? I have enough on my plate with my day job and all that.
    – APC
    Oct 21, 2009 at 12:39
  • @APC: That's what they all say! ;) Maybe Ólafur's comment to his own answer points to the right direction, maybe not.
    – Ladybug Killer
    Oct 21, 2009 at 12:57
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    Anyway, the thing you've circled is the favicon which is picked up from the website. The caveman PNG comes from the URL which I cut'n'pasted out of the SO page source. However, please feel free to keep on believing I invented the whole episode.
    – APC
    Oct 21, 2009 at 13:15
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    @APC: In this case, displaying a pure png, the favicon is a miniature display of the image, like a thumbnail.
    – Ladybug Killer
    Oct 21, 2009 at 13:19
  • @John Smithers, That's not always the case. If you open the picture you uploaded in another tab, you will see a slice of cheese. Favicon's are set in the header.
    – Brad Gilbert
    Oct 21, 2009 at 15:46
  • ... Though I agree that it was probably 'Shopped
    – Brad Gilbert
    Oct 21, 2009 at 15:48
  • Well, this happened to me too. This time it was the redgate logo that showed up. And I'm using IE8.
    – Klaus Byskov Pedersen
    May 20, 2010 at 9:27
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Just saw your question in the related list on the How was the iconic StackOverflow emblem born?

That's my gravatar, Montecristo, a popular greek comic character.
And it's a rat, not a caveman :)

And yes, that was a cache issue.

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    Wow, who needs cave exploring when Meta has so many old tubes to crawl around? :)
    – user50049
    Feb 17, 2012 at 13:00

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