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Thanks to a comment from Dave, I’ve discovered Gravatar.com.  They offer the ability to use a custom avatar on any Gravatar-enabled site.  It seems the recent versions of WordPress are already setup to use this feature, which explains how Dave had a custom icon next to his comment, even though I’d disabled user registration on this blog.  Very cool!  I want to keep this site simple, so requiring user registration before people could post comments was something I wanted to avoid.  Without registration, however, I hadn’t found a way to allow people to have custom icons (if they want them).  Now they can!  Of course, default Wavatar icons are still automatically generated for everyone else, so I think everybody wins!