The top rated comment on Reddit regarding Nokia and Microsoft’s partnership on phones:
This deal combines Microsoft’s openness with Nokia’s innovation.
Sonar
Sonar is a nice looking web app that helps give you statistics about your code over time.
Annie Edson Taylor’s Barrel
Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was 63 when she pulled the stunt and survived very well. She was doing it in order to provide herself with an income in her older age. It didn’t work out that well and she eventually lost the historic barrel when it was stolen by her manager. No one knows where it is now.
Maybe it will turn up someday.
Birds die on New Years Day
Several thousand red winged blackbirds died on New Years Day in Arkansas. Current theories are that they were struck by lightening or scared to death by fire crackers.
scalr
Scalr looks like an interesting tool that will let you automatically bring up Amazon Web Services infrastructure to support spikes in demand for your web application.