Tim O'Reilly has posted the second part of the Q406 computer books sales report , comparing Q4 2006 with Q4 2005. This is for top selling computer-related books sales in the US, not just O'Reilly titles. Always interesting as an indicator of trends...
Scott Guthrie has announced the release of V1.0 of the IronPython project for .NET, available for download from CodePlex . Check out the screencast recorded by Jim Hugunin (lead architect for IronPython) and Jon Udell did to demo a bunch of the languages...