The Wikipedia Logo is Wrong
By Deane Barker on June 25, 2007
Some Errors Defy Fixes: A Typo in Wikipedia’s Logo Fractures the Sanskrit: The Wikipedia logo apparently has some bad characters in it.
[…] users of Wikipedia have described obvious mistakes in the design, a globelike jigsaw puzzle with characters from various languages on the pieces. Two of the characters — one in Japanese and one in Devanagari, the script used in Sanskrit and several modern Indian languages — are meaningless because of minor slips.
But the coolest thing in the whole article is this:
[the designer] said he tried to pick characters that were from a wide range of languages (including Klingon in the far upper right) …
Klingon. Awesome.