Edit: Unfortunately, the images originally included in this post are gone, because of hosting problems in late 2009. My apologies.
Sometimes you see a neat idea and realize how little effort it took to make it work — and then you wonder why you didn’t think of it yourself.
Crimesaucer‘s OpenLogo trick for conky is one of those.
Now why didn’t I think to do that?
That OpenLogo font has a lot more logos than just Ubuntu and Arch, too.