Its good you noticed, but as you say in your article disabling javascript is not very common. Every time I hear some one say they disable their javascript I get a bit ticked off.
"I mean, they do allow their search to work just fine without Javascript, so why not the logo too?"<p>a) The site still works with Javascript turned off.<p>b) The logo is degraded.<p>So how is this <i>not</i> graceful degradation?
Nice find, but I think these days surfing with Javascript turned off for the site you're visting is pretty silly.<p>I think noscript has a place in disabling 3rd party Javascript, however.