1- Tickets go for $40,000

2- Umbrellas are banned

3- Phone calls are frowned upon  

4- Up to 5 million will attend

5- The Inaugural Ball will be webcast 

via askmen 

The 10 Potential Mistakes 

Mistake I: Screwing Up the Stimulus Plan

Mistake II: Escalate the War in Afghanistan & Continue the Occupation in Iraq 

Mistake III: Settle for a Health Care Plan That Doesn’t Include a Competitive Government-Sponsored 'Medicare for All' Program 

Mistake IV: Fail to Forcefully Defend Workers' Rights to Join a Union and Deal with Corporate America on a Level Playing Field  

Mistake V: Continue the Destructive, Discredited, So-Called War on Drugs 

Mistake VI: Fail to Prioritize Climate Change and Continue Fantasies About 'Clean Coal' 

Mistake VII: Fail to End Torture and Return the Country to Its Founding Principles on Human Rights and the Rule of Law

Mistake VIII: Ignore the Emerging Water Crises

Mistake IX: Continue the Bush Administration’s Warped View of How to Approach the Israel-Palestine Conflict 

Mistake X: Continue to Detain Nonviolent Immigration Offenders

via alternet

1. Chief source of carbon emission: Printing money for the bail-out.

2. The jobless rate counts looking for work as a full-time job.

3. Loose nukes now available only in blister-packs of six.

4. The Taliban are now twice as fierce, having discovered the awesome power of having a good breakfast.

5. World of Warcraft: Totally fact-based.

full list via hyperorg

5. In Order to Get Things Done, Sometimes You Have to Reach Across the (Super Hero) Aisle.

4.The Press Isn’t Your Friend

3. Bad Things Are Going to Happen. The Important Thing Is How You Respond

2. Never Lose Your Sense of Humor

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball

• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini

• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father

• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed

• He has read every Harry Potter book

• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali

• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream

• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars

• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia

• He can speak Spanish

full list via telegraph