January 21, 2009

Mo’naugural

At pain of reaching complete burnout on this subject…

• As usual, The Big Picture hosts some excellent galleries:
  • Inaugural Preparations features some great, little-seen details.  I love these fragmented Obama eyes, plus this image of the Lego capitol. [Update: Reuters features more images of the Lego scene.]
  • The inauguration gallery includes images of people watching the show from Sadr City to Mexico City.
• The Newseum hosts hundreds of front pages documenting the events. [Via Marc Pawliger]
• Pranksters in SF have changed Bush St. to Obama St.  (I remember hearing after the 2000 election that people had changed “Bush” to “Puppet.”)
• Updates:
  • CNN hosts a zoomable version of the satellite image I mentioned yesterday.
  • The NYT has added overlay text identifying most of the people in the zoomable photo of the swearing-in.  That strikes me as a much more useful application of the technology.