I created a blank template on Posterous that loads nothing but their files and it has 42 request. Page took 7.60 sec to load with a primed cache.

Couldn't some of these be merged, minified or conditional?

Here's a screenshot http://dl.dropbox.com/u/558799/jing/2011-03-30_1428.png

Posterous is a great service but page loads take forever.