As per this new entry on gravatar.com, Gravatars are being served up using 'wide', which is a distributed cache proxy. It should result in less strain being put on the main gravatar.com site. There might be a little funkiness, so let Tom Werner at Gravatar know if you encounter problems.
'Wide' Gravatars
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I finally caved in an uploaded a gravatar…
The big question mark was a big guilt trip
Cool stuff, I just edited the plugin and so far everything seems to work fine! Groovy!