Tech – Obama poised to be first ‘wired’ president (CNN)
As the first president-elect with a Facebook page and a YouTube channel, Barack Obama is poised to use the Internet to communicate directly with Americans in a way unknown to previous presidents.

Games – The First Wii: Obama brings video games to the White House (Joystiq)
The New York Times reports that the President elect — who even took his campaign to the streets of Burnout Paradise — gifted his daughters, Sasha and Malia, with a Nintendo Wii for Christmas

Net - New White House website, New White House blog (WhiteHouse.org)
Sensing a trend?

Food - Inaugural Luncheon Recipes Available as Free Download (Lifehacker)

Media – Facebook and CNN: The Power of the Social Web Revealed (ReadWriteWeb)
The integration of the status updates on CNN.com Live was powered by Facebook Connect, Facebook’s relatively new platform for porting your online identity anywhere on the web.

Games – A Real Portal Gun (Well, Sort Of) (Gizmodo)
Sadly, this post won’t make any sense to you if you missed Valve’s acclaimed videogame Portal from last year.  But then again, if you missed that game, your life is devoid of meaning anyway.

Media – Capital Newspapers cuts staff (WI State Journal)
Capital Newspapers, which publishes the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times, said Monday it is reducing its staff by about 12 full-time equivalent positions, most from the two newsrooms

Tech – Microsoft’s new vision: a computer in every… coffee maker? (Ars)
The two companies (Microsoft and Fugoo) are working on “the next generation” of household appliances, gadgets, and accessories that are not only connected to the Internet, but also utilize a standard API for communicating with each other.

Film - An Open Letter From ‘Watchmen’ Producers (HitFix)
Shouldn’t Warner Brothers be entitled to the spoils – if any — of the risk they took in supporting and making Watchmen? Should Fox have any claim on something they could have had but chose to neither support nor show any interest in?

Media – Wisconsin State Journal and Lee Enterprises – Bleaker Than I Thought (Slogan)
The stock of Lee Enterprises was worth about $1.5 billion when the company borrowed almost an identical amount of money to buy the Pulitzer newspaper group in the summer of 2005. Today, Lee’s shares are worth only $13.5 million…

Insanity - Porn industry seeks federal bailout (CNN)
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.

Tech – Logitech G19 Hands On: I Watched YouTube on a Gaming Keyboard (Gizmodo)
Just plain cool!

Music (?) - David Lee Roth vocals + Microsoft Songsmith = AAAAAAAAAA! (Mefi Music)

Media – Ziff Davis Sells 1UP Network To UGO/Hearst, Closes EGM (Gamasutra)
Around 30 employees of Ziff Davis’ Game Group were laid off immediately following today’s announcement, including the staff of EGM Magazine, but also some elements of the 1UP Network’s web staff, including podcast and video producers.

DIY – Giant Atari Joystick Lamp (instructables)
Instructions to build your own.

Computers – Macworld.Ars: Keynote day coverage wrap-up (ars technica)
All the lame that was the MacWorld keynote 2009.

Sports – Utah attorney general: BCS may violate antitrust laws (Sports Illustrated)
Utah’s attorney general is investigating the Bowl Championship Series for a possible violation of federal antitrust laws after an undefeated Utes team was left out of the national title game for the second time in five years.

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.