“Obama has reinvented the state in more ways than you can imagine.

These days, liberals don’t know whether to feel betrayed by or merely disappointed with Barack Obama. They have gone from decrying his willingness to remove the public option from his health care plan to worrying that, in the wake of Democrat Martha Coakley’s defeat in Massachusetts, he won’t get any plan through Congress. On other subjects, too, from Afghanistan to Wall Street, Obama has thoroughly let down his party’s left flank.

Yet there is one extremely consequential area where Obama has done just about everything a liberal could ask for–but done it so quietly that almost no one, including most liberals, has noticed….”

The Quiet Revolution (via The New Republic)

“SEGA has announced Sonic 4: Episode I. It is, as GameSpot reports, a 2D downloadable game with 3D visuals.

The announcement is part of the Project Needlemouse build up SEGA has been pushing since last September 2009. “Needlemouse” refers to Sonic’s codename when the game that would become Sonic The Hedgehog was initially being pitched.

While teasing this Project Needlemouse project, SEGA has stated that the game is a return to Sonic’s 2D roots and that the blue hedgehog will be the only playable character.

The game will pick up after Sonic & Knucles, but, as “Episode I” indicates, this is a new story arc.”

Project Needlemouse Is… Sonic 4, Episode I (via Kotaku)

“Mozilla announced last week the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia’s Linux-based smartphone operating system. It offers adequate browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user interface that includes popular Firefox features like the AwesomeBar.

This Firefox variant is based on the Fennec project, which was originally launched in 2007 with the aim of bringing the full Firefox browsing experience to modern handheld devices. In the time that has transpired since the inception of the project, advancements in mobile computing hardware have significantly boosted the performance of smartphones. That factor, coupled with Mozilla’s aggressive optimization efforts, have made it possible for Firefox to become a mobile browser.”

Hands-on: Mozilla’s pocket-sized Firefox mobile for Maemo (via Arstechnica)

Time takes a brief look at the history of computers (in photos).

A Brief History of the Computer (via Time)

“Recently it has hit the markets the new Google phone which it has been talking about it since long before it’s released. After quite some time, the Google Phone Nexus One was released on January 5th 2010. As it is a direct competitor of the Nokia N900, we decided to make a comparison between this two….”

Nokia N900 vs. Google Nexus One (via nokia-n900.com

“When Steve Jobs told the audience at Apple’s iPad launch in San Francisco that only his company could produce such a tablet computer, it wasn’t mere hyperbole. And when he added that his company was now bigger, in revenue terms, than Nokia, Samsung and Sony, he gave a glimpse of Apple’s aim to dominate every sort of mobile device, from smartphones to laptops. Little wonder, with those ambitions, that Barclays Capital immediately suggested the iPad would raise Apple’s share price by 10pc….”

Is Apple using the iPad to take over the world? (via Telegraph.co.uk)

“The Nokia N900 has the best web browser of any mobile phone. This statement was made about the default web browser and now we have a final version of an alternative web browser that works amazingly well. Firefox for Mobile version 1.0 is now available for the Nokia N900 and if you have a N900 I highly recommend you download and install it now. It is a free web browser with the very compelling Weave Sync support to keep your Firefox experience synced across multiple computers…..”

Firefox Mobile version 1.0 now available for the Nokia N900 (via ZDNet)

According to rumor from a “trusted” source an MMO is indevelopment for the Elder Scroll series and is due for realease sometime in 2011. It is also noted in the article that the game was supposed to be announced sometime last year.

Court Documents Show Bethesda’s MMO is Already Under Development (via Massively)

Gizmodo shares their experience of the best from CES 2009. The article is accompanied by plenty of images and enough information that covers the most anticipated devices from the show.

The Best of CES 2009 (via Gizmodo)