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Canada's coolest Accordion player reviews Dive into Python. My review: A good book by an annoying, pedantic person. But isn't that who you want writing your programming books?

Jason sends along this cool zip code browser (req. Java).

Be sure to try the zoom function.

Interesting zip codes:

10101: NYC

20202: Washington, D.C.

30303: Atlanta

40404: Berea, KT

50505: N/A

60606: Chicago

70707: Gonzales, LA

80808: Calhan, CO

90909: N/A

90101: Los Angeles

So you can see that having a "cool", memorable zip code corresponds somewhat to living in one of the US's biggest cities: New York, Atlanta, Chicago, or (breaking the pattern a little) LA. This is similar to the way the easy to dial area codes were given to big cities in the 1950s. If you want to find out how important your town was then, add up the numbers of your area code. New York's, 212, is the fastest possible to dial on the rotary telephone, followed by LA's 213.

But not necessarily, as some large cities didn't get their region's repeating zip code.

You heard U2's song about the massacre in Northern Ireland, "Sunday Blood Sunday" right?

Someone took clips of Bush audio and spliced it together to create a cover of the U2 song...word for word!

This is AMAZING.

George Bush sings "Sunday Bloody Sunday".

This sort of extra-pertinent for me because I was just listening to this powerful song over the weekend.

Via Political Wire