Fixing homogeneous, faceless avatars (was: Google Wave?)

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight:
[...]
> BASIC INTERFACE
[...]
>   Contacts list.  Mine appeared to default to people from my Gmail
> contacts who had Google user accounts with Wave access.  It picks up
> the user icons ("avatars") from elsewhere in Google's account/profile
> system.  The icons are used a lot, which can be an issue if nobody has
> uploaded an icon, leaving everyone identified by the same generic
> icon.

And maddog also wrote:
>
> It also helps if people put their pictures into it, so you actually
> "see" who is there.  Having the same faceless avatar for everyone
> does nothing for collaboration.

On that note, I actually have a tool to help with that:

    http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/stickfigurator.cgi

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