Check out the info graphic for this site after the jump. It’s pretty cool to see how people shared my content over the last year.

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The first is The Png Project which makes it so that on any Noun Project page, you can download the image as a png.  I used it when I made Aaron Jorbin in 2011.

The second is by Evan Solomon and it adds a link the the SVN repository of any WordPress plugin on the plugin repository page you are on. WordPress.org Plugins SVN Link comes in handy if you’re the type that looks at the code of various WordPress plugins. Evan put the code on github and accepted a pull request of mine to remove a dependency on jQuery.

Anyone have any chrome extensions they’ve found come in handy lately?

Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled, according to the analysis of financial disclosures, from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home ­equity.

Over the same period, the wealth of an American family has declined slightly, with the comparable median figure sliding from $20,600 to $20,500, according to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from the University of Michigan.

via Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers and constituents – The Washington Post.

Perhaps if our representatives were more like us, they would care about the things we care about.

1. Wow, it is fast. Starting applications is fast. Switching applications is fast. It is responsive and I rarely if ever feel like I am waiting. The connection to the internet is fast. 4G is nice for that. However, this does lead to:
2. The battery leaves something to be desired. Between an hour-long public transit commute to work, some intermittent use at work, and a commute home, the battery is dead. I pretty much only have the option of charging it while at work, if I want it to be usable for a full day. I would not be surprised if I bought a second battery because of how poor this is
3. Ice Cream Sandwich and some of the apps are still a bit rough around the edges. When on wi-fi, I’ve had a few times that an app will give me a “Can’t connect to the internet” message, while other apps work perfectly and a simple on/off fixes it for the affected apps. Hopefully this will be fixed as updates start to come out

Overall, I’m happy with my choice and look forward to continuing to get to know android and this phone.

This was a pretty fun project. The server generates a stream of data that we then use client side to render all of the content. Of all the new features we added, the one I would recommend checking out is single URL view. Click on any url to get a single URL view that includes a moving bar graph (that fills in with data as it happens) along with the search terms and copied terms for that specific page.

Read more about it on the AddThis Blog and then go log in and start seeing how people are using your site right now.

Churkin told reporters that he hoped the resolution would help “stop violence, uphold human rights” and expedite government reforms. “We all believe the Security Council must do something.” He said the council should not play a role that would “fan the conflict” but instead “bring an end to the crisis.”

via Turtle Bay

I find the language pretty soft, with the resolution mainly calling for both sides to follow the peace process plan laid out by the Arab League. The most interesting part is the decision to readdress the situation in thirty days, which I take to mean that Russia might be open to more concrete action if the situation does not improve.

And with reports of troops massing near Homs and another pipeline explosion, the question is: Are we headed to a repeat of the Hama Massacre?

When you’re storing every transaction for 800 million users and handling more than 60 million queries per second, your database environment had better be something special.

via Facebook shares some secrets on making MySQL scale — Cloud Computing News.

Facebook uses and pushes MySQL like no other. This article gives a great insight into how it uses MySQL to a level and degree like no other. Hattip Rich

Homs, Syria. Photo by Syrialooks.Used under a Creative Commons license

The last major uprising against an al-Assad regime in Syria ended with a massacre in the city of Hama. Reports differ as too how many people actually die. The Syrian Human Rights Committee says 30,000. Journalist Robert Fisk says 20,000. Even the Hafez al-Assad regime admitted to1,000at the time. Are we headed down a similar path now in the city of Homs?

The Syrian government has warned protesters in the city of Homs to stop demonstrations, hand in weapons and surrender defecting military members by Monday night or face bombardment, an opposition leader said.

via Syrian opposition: Bloodbath could be imminent in Homs – CNN.com.

The UN estimates more than 4,000 people have already been killed in the current uprising. The Syrian government is describing its soldiers that have been killed as martyrs. How many more need to die before this ends?

Perhaps this has something to do with the Entertainment Software Association being one of the main sponsors of the awards gala? Does Politico disclose this when writing about the awards? No. Journalists are supposed to have ethics. I wish Politico would learn that.