• The Library of Congress adds to its Flickr collection today with dozens of neat old images. The one above is of the adoring crowd that turned out in New York City's Bowery for the 1913 funeral of Tammany Hall political boss "Big Tim" Sullivan.
• Chicago workers make a map of misbehaving employers.
• Dated, yes, but this still cracked me up. "It looks like you're installing windows..."
• Genachowski tries his hand at geek humor.
• Kinda neat to see how Obama's Nobel prize played out of the front pages of the world's newspapers.
• Three things you know about the Open Government Directive are (probably) wrong.
• Mapping where your reps stand on net neutrality.
• Intern day at the RNC. (via @kombiz) Update: Sorry, you've missed your chance. That gallery is now password-protected.
• In praise of the always-on, yet generally boring Obama White House.
• The UK sees the launch of Where Does My Money Go?
• NPR does a piece on the State Department's bold use of tech. Want to know more? Go listen at Brookings.
• And in yet another bold fashion move, "Michelle Obama Wore Clothes to Light the Christmas Tree."

(With Micah Sifry and Nick Judd)

• The Progressive Change Campaign Committee's "We Want the Public Option" web campaign launches and catches a bit of Twitter fire -- thanks in part, perhaps, to a simple but seemingly effective auto-"retweet" link. UPDATE: This Boing Boing mention probably didn't hurt. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
• Speaking of health care and TV spots, how team Obama is plotting its grassroots health care reform strategy with "images of 'Harry and Louise' -- the TV ad characters who became the faces of the successful industry challenge to Clinton-era health reforms -- danc[ing] in their heads."
• Former northern Virginia rep Tom Davis has deep ties to the tech industry. But what he doesn't have: a desire to be cybersecurity chief.
• The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas considers Tehran in the context of Tiananmen Square.
• A Twitter petition starts to get Wired to add a bit of gender diversity to its business conference.
• Two steps forward, one back: OMB's latest Recovery.gov reporting directive doesn't require raw data.
• A look back at Privacy Camp.
• And even an offline trip to Appalachia Argentina doesn't keep South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford from tweeting.

• Is there a more awesome nickname 2.0 than "Webmedev"? Correct; there's not. Also, the Russian president gets slammed on his LiveJournal site.
• Folks are live tweeting the meeting of government web managers. Follow along.
• GovLoop ("Connecting the Government Community") hits its 10,000 member.