Fun Big Brother-ish Tools

Here's two online tools I recently heard about, that provide information on people or places.

Information on People:
FundRace 2008: Type in a zip code (01824 [Chelmsford, MA]) or name (Gates, William), and the website lists 2008 political campaign donations, who they gave to, and how much.

Information on Places:
Zipskinny: Type in a zip code, and the website gives all kinds of demographic information (based on the 2000 census data). Also, you can type in up to 20 zip codes to compare locations in various categories (similar to one of my favorite city comparison websites, Sperling's Best Places), or see the top 100 zip codes for different categories (oldest, youngest, highest income, etc).

And who said public documents couldn't be fun?

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