* Anil Dash: If you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen
* Shria Ovide: 5 tech deals we want to see this year (and one we don’t)
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower ahead of ADP jobs data, London falls early, European shares retreat and the Nikkei sheds 0.2%.
* Tops up north: Canadian M&A league tables
* Juli Weiner: What Facebook can learn from Google’s IPO
* The World Bank has issued its first yuan-denominated bond
* Lucy Marcus: Why board diversity really matters (beyond optics)
* Welcome back to town: Bill Buckner to manage the Brockton (Mass.) Rox
* Say cheese: Baseball players who smiled more in team photos lived longer
* Cameron’s house from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is for sale. We assume they fixed the garage glass…
* Line of the Day, from Kara Swisher: “A special purpose vehicle sounds like a car that bankers use to take people for a ride.”
* The Deal Professor hands out 2010 grades: Straight A’s for private equity and the Treasury Department’s restructuring team. Failing marks for management buyouts and corporate finance.
* Not a joke: Tonight in DC is the inaugral Fi$cy Award ceremony, which will honor fiscal responsibility. Recipients are Sen. Kent Conrad, Rep. Paul Ryan and Gov. Mitch Daniels.