This is cheating a bit as this was declared the #1 clip of the year on The Soup, but it can’t not be shared. I’m not sure if I find this funny or scary.
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The Stonehenge Play
This is a perfect example of the “Stonehenge” trick play, where the offensive side stands around like they’re not ready for the play (but they are set and not moving) and then snaps the ball to confuse the defense.
Amazing.
The Homeless Man with the Golden Radio Voice
My 2010 Year in Review
Some of my colleagues here at WordPress.com thought it would be a great idea to send out some nifty emails to many of our users with a summary of their blog’s activity over all of 2010. With a click of a button in that email, you can post it to your site as well. What follows is mine:
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,100 times in 2010. That’s about 17 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 12 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 354 posts. There were 103 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 834mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was August 31st with 163 views. The most popular post that day was Adding a Custom Sharing Service to Sharedaddy.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were wordpress.org, en.forums.wordpress.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, and WordPress Dashboard.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for ryan markel, ethan mars, sharedaddy, twenty ten left sidebar, and twenty ten custom css.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
1
Adding a Custom Sharing Service to Sharedaddy August 2010
7 comments and 12 Likes on WordPress.com
2
Adding Specific Sharing Services to Sharedaddy August 2010
10 comments and 6 Likes on WordPress.com
3
Flipping the Sidebar in Twenty Ten with Custom CSS July 2010
3 comments
4
Books for Sale October 2010
5
I’ve Gone Automattic January 2010
6 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,
New Year, New Gravatar
It’s been almost half a year since I’ve updated my Gravatar. So to help keep things fresh, and because my wife took a rather nice picture (or three) of me last night when our family played some Creationary (more on that in another post), I pulled that picture and have placed it as my new Gravatar.
If you don’t already know what Gravatar is and how to use it, you should head over there and check it out! Gravatars are used all over the Internet and everywhere on WordPress.com to give you a visual identity.
Configuring a Gravatar will make it appear on this site and on all WordPress.com sites when you comment, on the WordPress.com forums, and when you click the Like button beneath each of my posts.
So this is the new me that’s going to be staring out at you from your monitor when you read something I write—including now slightly curly hair and my partially-formed beard.
Ryan Markel 