Is nothing sacred?

Madison Ave. apparently doesn't think so.

A special-effects entrepreneur has come up with a way to fill the sky with lush clouds as large as 4 feet across shaped like corporate logos, according to Wired. He calls them Flogos. Great. How clever.

Francisco Guerra, who's also a former magician, has developed a machine that produces tiny bubbles filled with air and some helium, forms the foam into shapes and pumps them into the sky.

You'd think a magician would know better. Aren't they supposed to hold the imagination sacred?

Naturally that biggest corporate dream maker - The Walt Disney Co. will use one of the machines next month to send clouds shaped like Mickey Mouse heads into the air at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., Guerra told Wired.

After that, no doubt, the floodgates will be open. No more laying on a grassy knoll picking out whales and cars and palm tree-shaped clouds with your kids or partner. It'll be "Hey! It's Coke!" or, "Look Mommy, Apple Computers!"

May the winds of change blow fiercely.

The first thing that struck me--halfway through AOL Money & Finance's Corporate Logo Quiz--was the realization that, wow, I really know corporate logos.

For someone who doesn't pay attention to the subtle evolutions of the GE, Disney or BMW branding, it turns out that I actually know them like the back of my hand. And, for some reason, that makes me very afraid.

But before you launch into the quiz, take a deep breath and try to relax, because it's not as easy as you think. Like, for instance, do the sun rays in the Dole logo stretch outside the "o" or stay inside? Is the familiar Pepsi globe red-on-blue or blue-on-red? Does the circular Starbucks logo actually have stars in it? How many circles are in the Target "target"? Does the Playboy bunny have a outlined or solid-white tie?

See? You're hooked.

B. Brandon Barker also writes for Political Machine.