Great designs. Really like the salt shaker. Would love to see a version of example: #68 that places the saltshaker to the left of the text, which may make it more usable in the navigation area of our website.
Yes, I think example: #76 can work. In fact, I can imagine using it in navigation, and using example #68 elsewhere (in brochures and on business cards, for example). I like your other concepts, especially example: #74. I wonder if you could experiment with the font a bit - all caps seems a bit full-on. Perhaps "geekSALT" (obviously the A need to be capitalised for the concept to work).
I wonder whether the concept of example: #74 would work with the lowercase font of example: #76, but with the salt-shaker flipped horizontally so it's filling up the lowercase a from the other direction? Not enough space perhaps?