Now that I'm living in DC, I would really like to go to the Capitol for Inauguration Day. I looked into how it works, and apparently they give out tickets (250,000), and if you don't get a ticket, you can go, but you'll be behind about 250k people.
I came across an article telling me that I should contact my representative to get tickets. DC has one non-voting representative (Taxation without Representation!), so I went to her website to see what the deal is.
"Special Alert: Inauguration Tickets Not Available, Please do not call or email." That's discomforting... She wrote a post saying that the representatives only gets a few tickets each, and she already took down about a thousand names on a waiting list, and isn't going to take any more. Oh well, I'll still try and go anyway.
If you haven't heard, Change.gov is a new website for the president-elect. I'm glad to see the government is starting to take a turn for the technological. How so? I saw that the White House finally has RSS feeds, and Obama is going to be giving a weekly address (FDR-style) via YouTube. He gave his first one this morning, and you can see it below:
On the downside, I noticed that Obama hasn't updated his Twitter since November 5th.
Photo: Flickr
Glad he's embracing
The YouTube generation
Inauguration...
Godspeed.
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