• From the White House Flickr stream, the vacationing president meets with National Security Council chief of staff Denis McDonough to talk over "the attempted terrorist attack of an airliner on Christmas Day."
• Organizing for America executive director Jeremy Bird offers his perspective on how the group's first year has played out.
• THOMAS, the Library of Congress' legislative hub, moves slowly into the Internet age with better PDFs and a new 20 minute window until temporary search result links disappear. Four times longer than it had been!
• Analyzing Glenn Reynolds' body language.
• The Republican Governors Association spokesperson tweets -- and quickly de-tweets -- a joke about New York Gov. David Paterson's blindness.
• Newark Mayor Cory Booker heeds a Twittered call for a little help shoveling a driveway.
• The touch of authenticity that "Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T" brings, or doesn't.
• Did Obama's transparency pledge win him any votes?
• And USAjobs.gov adds a notice about gender identity.

(With Micah Sifry)