No your eyes have NOT gone all buggy! I’ve applied a new template, the TicTac by Mr SimpleBits : Dan Cederholm.
I expect to continue too tweak the template over the next thousand years to my dis-liking. For the record, it was very easy to do. The hardest part was figuring out which parts of the “old” customization to keep, where to put them, and how to make them work best with the new template look and feel.