Science – Science celebrates 400 years of Galileo, 200 of Darwin (Ars Technica)
Both revolutionized their fields—astronomy and biology—and they had impacts far beyond the scientific community. Not content to pick between life and the heavens, another group has simply declared this the Year of Science.

Net – Top 500 worst passwords (boing boing)
Here’s the whole shebang:

Games – Downloading your games? Get ready for extra fees (Ars Technica)
Allowing customers to access these records and re-download what they’ve already paid for seems like a no-brainer; charging people for that option just seems slimy.

Net – Firefox Tops 20% in November, IE Now Under 70% (ReadWriteWeb)
Even though Net Applications’ global data for December is still preliminary, IE’s decline during 2008 is remarkable, especially given its former dominance of the browser market.

Science – Scientists: True love can last a lifetime (CNN)
Using brain scans, researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have discovered a small number of couples respond with as much passion after 20 years together as most people only do during the early throes of romance, Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper reported.