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• The Inauguration, In Pictures

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-22 • ( 7 )

  

  [via lolobama]

  If you’d like a more serious take on the Barack Obama inauguration,

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-22 • ( 2 )

  

• Invocation and Benediction: Call and Response?

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-21 • ( 19 )

  

  When I first heard Rick Warren had been honoured with the invocation at the inauguration of president Barack Obama, all I felt was a wave of abhorrence and disgust, and I was in good company.

• Inauguration Live!

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-20 • ( 3 )

  We’re having a live Presidential Inauguration chat session here, from 12:30 am Perth time (GMT +9). Come and join in!

• The Inauguration Will Be LiveBlogChatted

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-20 • ( 14 )

  Edit 20 Jan: Just bumping this up as a reminder. Are there any more regular/known-to-me Hoydenizens willing to be added as panellists? The upside, for you, is that your comments will be put through to the liveblogchat window immediately. The downside is that I’ll ask you to help with approving guest comments through. If you can only be there for part of it, that’s fine too.

• Frontless shoes: The worst of all worlds

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-20 • ( 22 )

  In the interest of completing our schedule of Ridiculous–Shoes blogging, I just wanted to show you these shoes. I do feel sorry for the model’s poor toes, which look battered and bruised, probably from whatever other ridiculous shoes she’s been in.

• Blokes calling out blokes: Tommy on Celebrity Big Brother UK

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-20 • ( 17 )

  The sixth season of Celebrity Big Brother UK is underway.

  Rapper, self-confessed “shit-stirrer”, and supremely annoying fuckknuckle Coolio, who has been engaged in a prolonged campaign of sexual harassment against Ben and Michelle, is the one getting on my wick the most.

• Blokes calling out blokes: “Butterbodies” on Spike TV

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-19 • ( 27 )

  

  [Left to right: Drew Barrymore, Tyra Banks, and Sara Ramirez.]

  After airing those Douchebag oTY contestants, here are some mad props – to an unlikely sort of crowd, the commentariat at Spike TV.

• Cool Science: Carnivorous sea squirt and ocean spiders

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-19 • ( 1 )

  

  A join Australian/US research expedition has discovered a multitude of new deep-sea species in the Tasman Fracture Zone, southwest of Tasmania. The 30 cm sea spiders I could do without knowing about, but check out some of the other marine life they’ve photographed with their submersible robot.

• Douchebag oTY contestant: “Uh oh” nurse routinely pulls IUDs out

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-19 • ( 16 )

  Turns out yesterday’s Douchebag of the Year contestant has a competitor. Already.