Disconnected 1.3 is out. It includes support for WordPress 2.3's native tagging, and preliminary support for WordPress 2.5's get_avatar() function. I know I said I'd never support gravatars1, but since they're going native in 2.5, there's no point in fighting anymore. At least once 2.5 is released, I can write a plugin to use MyBlogLog Avatars instead.

There's a new theme for habari, I think it's the first fully original theme. It's a beauty, evoking the sleek monochromatic habari dashboard, and including a bunch of custom plugins. It's called Charcoal, and it's hosted on google code, although the code isn't up there, so there's no SVN updating.

1. Since they provide identity without authentication, a sure recipe for abuse

<?php $md5 = md5( strtolower(get_the_author_email()) );
$default = urlencode( get_bloginfo(template_directory) .'/icons/author.png' );
echo "<img alt='avatar' class='photo' title='photo' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=$md5&size=50&rating=X&default=$default'  />";
?>

Note that this assumes your theme has an author.png inside an icon folder. Change that line to reflect the location of your default icon, or use a blank default. If you're using Sandbox, or any other hCard-enabled wordpress theme, you can insert this inside <div class="vcard">, for added microformat-y goodness. Otherwise, you can put it anywhere you like. I've also added the same code to the top of my author.php file, inside <div class="archive-meta">.