Re: Other site
Welcome! To answer your questions, yes, I changed to the GNU license when the implications of (and general ill-will associated with) Creative Commons were brought to my attention. I had already uploaded a boatload of pictures with a CC 2.5 tag, which I'm not sure I'll bother to change, but the articles will all be GFDL. The Flash headline thing is called sIFR, and unlike most things with Flash, it's fully accessible, search-engine friendly, and degrades gracefully on browsers without the Flash plugin (though I need to tweak my CSS a bit more to disable the feature on "Printable Versions" of articles). But yes, its purpose is really just to use that neat font. :) --Admin 01:36, 14 March 2007 (CDT)
Re: Also
The installed version of MediaWiki is 1.9.3, plus various extensions. (You can check all that stuff here: http://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Special:Version)
To answer your other questions, my "day job" (well, "day and night job," really) is graphic/web design, so both the hosting and logo design are my own.