Yes, M. Vasquez managed to polish a vaguely worrisome logo into a world-class one. And with the wikinews skin redesign approaching... the *fully operational* wikistar will be beautiful as well.
SJ
(On a related note, I feel that David Vasquez has done an excellent job refining the logo. It looks much more optimistic and welcoming than the logos of most news sites.)
Does anyone know of other uses of a globe icon rotated to that longitude?