Wired has a short piece up explaining what some of the symbols that appear on your electronics mean. I've reproduced all eight from the article here sans description. If you can tell what all of them are, then you have no need to read the article. Otherwise...
Secrets Revealed! Decode Those Weird Symbols on Consumer Electronics. [Wired]
""breast-like"? Good grief, Brownlee...."
"It looks like the mechanism that holds the roll of p..."
"Good, I'm not the only one who thinks this is hilari..."
"Ha! I read about this on VWVortex and lmao. Very fun..."
"#15 Well... entering the problem was as fast if not..."
"Anonymous at 8:12 am is completely correct regarding..."
"Id prefer a set of glasses that looked like light an..."
"I really want one of these - ever since I visited IB..."
"I actually live on the East Coast. Sometimes!..."
"I just love the look on the pac-models face; complet..."
"enjoy my elastic ruler...."
"There was a nice Woot but it's already sold out. ..."
"I wonder if he was trying to do what this guy did: ..."
"but can it run Crysis?..."
"There has been quite a bit of amateur research into ..."
"On the other hand, I'm often incapable of managing s..."
"This can only lead to sadness..."
"I'm pretty sure you have to measure your banana in t..."
"Garr, I can tell you part of why contemporary art co..."
"Not that uncommon. I just took a cash register out o..."
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Thought I did pretty well... The top right, lower left and UR got me tho'.
For more fun with international symbols, build your own ANSI sign:
http://www.stclaire.com/safety_sign_builder/ssb-panel.php
Here's another quiz: what omnipresent tech symbol is identified in different countries by the following names: monkey, little mouse, strudel, maggot, elephant's trunk, crazy, and snail?
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2006/11/where_its.html
the first is European Community or China Export?