AWESOMECON

Photographer David Bergman was covering Barack Obama’s historical inauguration when he shot the above image at an amazing 1474 megapixel resolution. The photo consists of 220 individual pictures taken with a Canon G10 strapped to a Gigapan Imager. The final image is, understandbly, huge at  59,783 x 24,658 pixels and almost 2gb in size. The level of detail is simply incredible. You can zoom right into every single person’s face, practically. Is it me, or is Bush playing a Gameboy?

Read. [davidbergman.net]

PolitiFact.com was an invaluable resource during the primary and general elections for getting at the facts underlying all the mud slinging and craftily-worded campaign rhetoric. Now that Obama has transcended from candidate to executive, PolitFact has turned their attention to tracking how well our new president keeps to his campaign promises.

PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.

So far, it’s at six promises kept, 14 in the works. Not too shabby for having put just one full day in the oval office so far.

Read [The Obameter]