We always assumed that hip hop and men’s figure skating were like two ships passing in the night. And then we saw Olympic Gold Medalist Evan Lysacek’s hip hop debut, “Figga Please.” In what may be the best ode to men’s figure skating since “What Would Brian Boitano Do?,” Lysacek (OK, so it’s actually Brooklyn performer Don McCloskey) manages to make terms like triple salchow and triple lutz sound totally street.

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OK, so this is the last Olympics-related post for a while, we swear, but we had to pass it along for all the design geeks out there. Olympic pictograms were first used in the German games of 1936 and became standard practice after the Tokyo Olympiad of 1964. Watch the video after the jump for a taste into the psychedelic, op art-inspired icons that defined the 1968 Mexico Summer Olympics, as well as the unloved blobs of Nagano’s 1998 Winter Olympics. “Is that a luge sled or a giant squid?” Harsh, but point taken.

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Today at Flavorpill, we watched every Kramer entrance ever in Seinfeld history. We stared at superheroes. We were surprised by how good the Berlin Wall looked on Wilshire Boulevard. We giggled over Barack Obama’s “Facebook feed,” but vowed never to dress up as a status update. We fell in love with Toby Ng’s World of 100 (Exhibit A to your right.). We found it hilarious that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar got a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar–related question wrong on Celebrity Jeopardy! We got a gander of the 2010 Winter Games Olympic medals. Oy. We wanted this LEGO counter-top in our kitchen. We geeked out over a lovely space infographic. And finally, we decided it was time to cut out and tie a few on. We’ll have whatever Maddow’s drinking.

Londonist pointed us toward this picture of Heathrow airport’s new terminal, designed by architect Norman Foster’s firm. The environmentally-friendly (save for all the fuel-guzzling planes that will use it, anyway) terminal is set to replace Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, longtime standbys at the world-class airport. Terminal East won’t open until 2019, but we think England is gearing up to show off its fancy design when the Olympics come to town in summer 2012.