I always wondered what the VLC cone was about. This prompted me to finally look it up. Interesting:<p>On day, people from the VIA association (VIA is a students' network association with many clubs ... amongst those is VideoLAN. More info here : <a href="http://www.via.ecp.fr" rel="nofollow">http://www.via.ecp.fr</a> ) came back drunk with a cone. They then began a cone collection (which is now quite impressive i must say). Some time later, the VideoLAN project began and they decided to use the cone as their logo.<p><a href="http://www.nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/</a> / <a href="http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9792" rel="nofollow">http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9792</a>