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We bring you this shot by GregMacKay in honor of President's day. Peeking out from behind the Zakim, the Garden was decked out in Red, White and Blue for inauguration night. The beautiful colors and rarity of this capture make this a definite keeper.

Phillyist wondered just how much a star ball player is actually worth.

The screen shot doesn't do justice to this amazing inauguration panorama compiled from 220 separate images by David Bergman. Click to zoom in super close on the inauguration audience. We haven't found Milli yet, but you never know what might happen. If you're interested in knowing the details, read how David did it.

Massachusetts cellist Yo-Yo Ma was not actually playing his cello during Barack Obama's televised inauguration. Complaining that it was "wicked cold," the musician and sex symbol opted instead to pretend to perform while piping in a prerecorded track. [NYTimes]

Okay, so this photo is and will be everywhere today, but it deserves to be. Full transcript of the speech if you didn't hear it. We can't even pick a favorite line from it.

Well, today's the big day. If you're not excited, some numbers might whet your appetite for change. Here's a roundup of things to do around town for the inauguration. (And at this point, it's shocking when an event doesn't involve special presidential drinks with cute names.)

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Well, sorta. The Herald reports that Amtrak is increasing service from Boston (among other cities) to DC for Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20, and many airlines plan to offer additional flights to the capital for the festivities as well. So that makes it seem kind of like Obama has made us all reconsider our addiction to cars, but that isn't quite the case—plus the increased train and plane usage is probably not that great for the environment anyway. Regardless, increasing train service for the day is better than having thousands of folks drive their cars into DC, create massive traffic, and attempt to park in nonexistent spaces, so kudos to Amtrak for making at least one smart (and lucrative) decision in its history.

Mighty Mighty Bosstones December 26-30, 7:30 Middle East Details on tickets in post Bosstones MySpace site Common November 10 UMass-Boston, Clark Athletic Center FREE Yo La Tengo November 15, 9:30 pm Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium, $25 Better hope you have some money in your wallet because there's some huge acts that are on their way. First off, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are reuniting at the Middle East for a "Hometown Throwdown." Tickets go...

The newly installed Governor has been taking a lot of flack for some spending during his first two months in office. It all started with the inauguration and its price tag. Then we heard about the $72,000 chief of staff he hired to assist his wife in the duties of a first lady. Then a couple of helicopter rides in State Police aircraft. Follow that with Caddy-gate, a $46,000 lease for a Cadillac DTS (his other option was the similarly equipped $31k Chrysler 300). But the cherry for the media blitz surrounding the spending was the $27,000 spent in upgrades his office at the State House, including $12,000 for new drapes. Amidst scrutiny of his spending, and little attention to his political initiatives Deval Patrick has come out and admitted it was a bit much. He's screwed up and will be repaying the Commonwealth's coffers for some of his extravagance. Repayment will include the full cost of the redecoration of his office, and a contribution to the monthly lease cost of the Cadillac to make it comparable to the cost of Romney's vehicle. It bears mention that Dukakis used to take the T to work as Governor (and still does when he's in town.)

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into...

Deval's hours old administration has stepped up and already thrown the switch quick putting the updated website live. It has only been a matter of hours since the Patrick administration has officially been the "Patrick administration" and the mass.gov website is dripping with the new governor and lieutenant governor's names. The top news story on mass.gov is an announcement of the inauguration providing a link to the new page devoted to Patrick/Murray, no longer Romney/Healey. Changing over the names emblazoned on fixtures is one of the things we're always curious about. If Menino is ever voted out of office how long will it take to remove his name from all of those signs and websites it adorns – he's even got a placard on the Zamboni that smoothes the ice on the Frog Pond. One thing that can be done quickly these days is changing the name on a website. Patrick's team has done just that.

Our new governor is, in the words of Bob Dylan, really taking his potatoes down to be mashed. His staff announced that he landed Yo Yo Ma for his inaugural bash on January 4. Hear that? Yo Yo freaking Ma!

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it...