The lack of drop shadow on the lesswrong:discussion logo offended me, so I've added one. Who should I email the file to get it changed, if it is up to scratch?
Edit: I decided to stick up, so that it can be grabbed by whoever.

Well... I guess this as a good a place as any to have a hoplessly meta discussion : )
I like your idea. I tried it though, and it still doesn't seem to fix the aesthetic issues... adding "discussion" has made the logo awkwardly wide, and on top of that even the drop shadow can't fix the readability issues, since the thing now extends well into the brighter and grayer areas of the background.
Like I said though, something needs doing. Here is my own humble attempt (cannot figure out how to embed it in the page):

After contributions from a number of us (by random example here, here) over a number of months, particularly User:wmoore and User:tommccabe (and all happening before User:Yvain's work here, so we missed those ideas) we have a discussion area.
Discussion, including discussion of the discussion area, is welcome.