A who had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State was arrested this week for reportedly planning to attack diners at a restaurant or bar with a machete on New Year’s Eve.

Louis C.K. made his last appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, and gave Jay a proper send-off with some Grade A observations about love, happiness, and his long lost directorial debut that's about to see the light of day for the very first time.

What time is New Year's? New Year's time, New Year time. When is New Year? Time of next year start. What time is 2014?

Good Idea Alert: Why not have a football bowl game that begins at midnight on New Year's day, just after the ball drops? That way you can turn the game on at your New Year's party.

[Participants in the annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Plunge at Coney Island run into the ocean. Click through for another picture of very cold people. Image via Getty]

A group of men dressed like Vikings lead the torchlight procession that kicks off Edinburgh New Year's celebration. Kind of makes the Times Square ball drop look a little wimpy, no? Image via Getty]

Snooki planned on dropping in a glass ball in Times Square on New Year's Eve like a 'friggen hamster.' Unfortunately it looks like she's been banned from Times Square, the potential site of the MTV-backed stunt. Save your ball jokes.

[Organizers of Times Square's New Year's ball drop test the quality of their confetti two days before the big event. Come on. It's confetti. How hard can that be to get right? Image via AP]

Every January 1, everyone wakes up with the best intentions of improving themselves and living a better life. By March 12, all those ideals are out the window. Not this year! Here's how to make your resolution last all year.

After enduring dozens of grueling hours with your relatives this holiday season, you may need to go to the bar for a drink. This poses its own challenges: navigating the impromptu high school reunion that occurs therein.

Incompetent superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian has a very, very, very exclusive invitation for you, if you have $40.

Guinness rang in the new year—and their 250th anniversary— by airing this live fireworks display at 17:59 local Ireland time. Why 17:59? History states that Arthur Guinness signed the brewery's 9,000-year-lease on New Years Eve in 1759.

Watching CNN's New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin has almost been reduced to a countdown to when Kathy says something inappropriate. This year she deliberately has a little trouble with the pronunciation of Balloon Boy's first name.

When the New Year comes, it makes us think about what we can do differently this year. We vow to lose weight, to quit smoking, and to stop watching Intervention and Say Yes To The Dress marathons.

Jeez, guys- I found this just in the nick of time. Without these instructions from the Food Network's Ted Allen, I would have probably turned a fun gathering into some kind of Wet T-Shirt contest. Phew!

In true fashion, KLG and Hoda finished the year off by attempting to sing all the words to Auld Lang Syne. Kathie Lee seems drunk already and gets all diva-tastic on our asses. Happy New Year to us all!

Grumpy and long-winded Andy Rooney has had enough of New Year's Eve. If you can get past the fact that 60 Minutes even airs these crotchety rants, listen to Andy's plans: sitting alone with a tub of coffee ice cream.

We're not sure whether this anchor is the crotchety type or if he just couldn't find a New Year's date. Either way, he rains on everyone's parade while the rest of the newsroom tries to happily ring in 1988.

Did you know the New Years ball was just given 300 new Waterford Crystal plates? Or that it stands tall at 400 feet above Times Square? Or how each year has it's own theme? Learn more after the jump.

We got this sweet picture of media heiress and ultimate narrator Emily Brill looking fancy on New Year's Eve. So as an excuse to run it, let's hear Emily's analysis of MTV's The City: