Inauguration link roundup
So where were you yesterday for President Obama's inauguration? I was at work, but we had a bunch of viewing rooms all over campus set aside for the occasion. I wound up in one of the library viewing rooms with several coworkers, commenting from time to time but mostly just sitting and watching history unfold. Then I went back to the reference desk, rather more red-eyed and less cynical than I usually am in the middle of the day on a Tuesday in January. I'm sure at some point I'll go back to feeling like everything is just the same as it always was and ever will be, but not, I think, just yet.
A few inauguration-related things I noticed around the web:
- masses of people live-Twittering the ceremony
- an amazing satellite photograph of the Mall, from Popular Science (the people look like swarms of ants!)
- a giant mosaic of newspaper front pages from yesterday, via Boing Boing
- an open letter on the Dreaded Gay Agenda, by the Tenured Radical
- Inaugural Words: a word-cloud visualization of presidential addresses, from the New York Times
- …and there's now a Facebook page (!) for Aretha Franklin's inaugural hat. (Which I loved. It's not easy to carry off a hat with a giant bow, but she rocked it.)
As a friend of mine said over IM yesterday: Happy new era!
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