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So, what’s with all the ghost images wandering around the site? You’ve probably noticed them in the comments. They look like this:

They’re called gravatars, and you can set one up here. Here’s how it works: you plug in your email, and you upload a picture, and then every time you make a comment, the site will automagically insert your gravatar next to your comment.

Now, people can tell at a glance that the 18 paragraph thesis relating Cézanne’s conception of the human form in art to Foucault’s sign-object deconstruction was written by Stick, and not by Leoskeo. (Well, aside from the fact that Leoskeo thinks Cézanne’s work is symptomatic of the larger changes in representational art, and tooootally overblown in terms of its real significance, so he would never write that comment, obviously).

So, dear reader, what does this mean to you? If you’re a commenter, and you want your picture (or a picture) to show up next to your comments, just go to the Gravatar site and sign up. It’s run by the same people who write WordPress - good people, good company, no privacy concerns about giving them your email.

Then, every time you leave a comment using that same email address that you signed up with, your photo gets dropped in.

If you are an author for this site, please go sign up for a Gravatar. The next incarnation of our site design will be using Gravatars as author images next to the posts, so if you don’t want the anonymous ghost image showing up, you’ll need to setup a Gravatar image. Please make sure you sign up for it using the same email address that you used when you registered here at Addison Road.

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