Thought I quickly mention this. You might have noticed that every comment on this blog is associated with an avatar. Mine has a picture of me. Most others are now associated with auto-generated avatars. (Don’t blame me if you get a bad one. It’s AUTO-GENERATED! hehehe)
WordPress uses the Gravatar system. Other places also use Gravatar for showing users’ faces (or whatever they want to show.) I think it’s pretty neat. You sign up for an account. Upload a picture or two. Add email addresses that you use for leaving comments on blogs or forums. Associate each email address with a picture you uploaded. Done. After that your chosen avatar will show up anywhere that uses Gravatar as long as you use an email address that has a Gravatar setup.
Don’t you want to set one up? 
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Avatars seem to be showing up a lot in the last week.
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Jason reply on August 17th, 2008 8:56 am:
Eh? Where’s the funkier manga Jerry?
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got it! loaded up my standard one from my blog. will try to get a better one later… thanks!xo
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Posted 17 Aug 2008 at 8:40 am ¶great plying! most people tend to underply and end up with 1-2 ply twists per inch, which i think is too loose. nice.
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Posted 17 Aug 2008 at 8:41 am ¶It worked, guys!
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Posted 17 Aug 2008 at 8:55 am ¶Oh, I don’t know… that green triangular monster avatar… it’s not so bad :^)
Soon. Hopefully. I’ll show you some spinning. but in lieu of spending time doing tech stuff I’d rather spin right now… I’m a brat.
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Jason reply on August 18th, 2008 8:38 pm:
How come you get the green triangle every time? And are you making a face at me?
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Of course, I had to see mine!
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Posted 18 Aug 2008 at 4:00 pm ¶P.S. I kind of like the little purple thing!
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Jason reply on August 18th, 2008 8:39 pm:
Hey! You are also getting the same one every time. I guess you are assigned one, and one only. I am tempted to switch to other monster avatars.
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Good gravy, I am so grateful you posted this, lest I never have figured it out. I’m totally digging and stumbling this! Thanks, Jason
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Jason reply on August 20th, 2008 9:05 am:
It’s an important tool in representing yourself on social networks.
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I agree, which is why I thank you once again for the helpful post
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Posted 20 Aug 2008 at 12:37 pm ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
[...] I knew there was something bugging me about Blogger, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until I came across BlogBloke’s post about comments at Blogger sucking. They do suck! Why? They are a pain to access unless the blog owner has hacked the code for inline comments, they are still difficult unless one has an account with Google at Blogger or an OpenID and for all that trouble, there is still no link love! Plus, WordPress has Gravatars, which are the funk! I had been leaving comments all about the web for months without realizing the joy of Gravatars. Go realize the love! [...]
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