I happened upon the University of Michigan Libraries Website today and the icons it uses for RSS Feeds made me wince: 
I mean I'm not a purist or anything but you'd figure an institution with those kind of resources ought to be sporting something finer -- especially for a link to something that's increasingly as important as RSS.
So out of the generosity of my heart, I spent all of five minutes (or roughly 1 sec./pixel) to put together the following kickaZZ 24x12 icon to be shared by the entire University of Michigan community: 
Yes, I know, generosity abounding.
that's my kind of obsession with design! nice work.
It was easy enough to do.
I got a polite "thank you" from the folks over a UMICH and that was the end of it.
Eventually they switched over to the "firefox" design.