Summer:  Here we have another homage, this time to the pseudoscience of phrenology.

Phrenological thinking was pretty big in the 19th century, particularly when having to do with psychiatry and psychology.

The basic theory was that mental traits could be defined by measuring bumps on the skull.

Lorenzo Niles Fowler was a leading phrenologist of the time who started a phrenological publishing house known as L.N. Fowler and Company.

They became well known for their phrenology head (a china head showing the phrenological faculties), which has become a symbol of the discipline.

Our version of the head was floating in space and introduced another science to the mix: privatology (which we completely made up).

And to complete the image, we credited the publisher "E.A. Blair," which was an allusion to Eric Arthur Blair or, as most know him, George Orwell.

Instead of mental traits, we placed all kinds of wordless corporate logos that were involved in privacy abuse one way or another.

They included:
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