You can thank THIS guy (MyBlogLog bans animated avatars)
MyBlogLog is finally banning animated avatars. (I snagged that one at left from the MBL badge on a major tech site while reading the other night…. You’re not even reading this, are you?… You’re still staring at the animation…. *That’s* why I didn’t snag one of the R-rated ones as a sample ;-)
Now all they have to do is set some reasonable size restrictions and I may even consider adding their badge to this page (honestly, people, how big does a 48×48 graphic need to be? Didn’t your parents teach you anything about image optimization?)
I love MyBlogLog’s product, by the way - I’m just not giving them real estate on any of my sites until a few checks are put in place to protect the user experience.
Unrelated housekeeping note: I’m just about ready to take the covers off the new Wordpress home for this blog. Still working out a few kinks, but it should be online tonight or tomorrow at the latest.
Update April 20: backdating to get this annoyingly large graphic off of my homepage, and adding back to syndicated content, because *this* post got 5 times as many clickthroughs to the site from my RSS feed as anything else I’ve written. I may have to animate the rest of my site… :|