Dancing Around The World: Where the Hell Is Matt?

This guy went around the world to... dance. Very cool, interesting and inspiring video.

Blink and you'll miss the dancing in Melbourne at Federation Square.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

How many of these places have you been to?

[via Presentation Zen where you'll find more videos too]

If You Only Read One Blog...

He's quite mainstream these days, but every new post just reaffirms that Joel Spolsky is one of the smarted guys out there. His recent Yale talk posts are particularly good, but also among my favourite are:

• Introduction to Best Software Writing
• Fire And Motion
• The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

I don't have an wish link widget yet, but if I did you'd find his three books on there as well.

Highest Level of Giving Made Easy

Maimonides, one of the most important Jewish scholars, wrote of eight levels of charity. The highest is

...endowing him with a gift or loan, or entering into a partnership with him, or finding employment for him, in order to strengthen his hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others...

Thanks to the Internet, this way of giving is actually the easiest to accomplish thanks to the phenomenon of microloans: small loans (less than $200) made to individuals to help fund a business venture. Web sites such as Kiva make this extremely easy. Simply pick the individual you want to sponsor, choose a loan amount, and use Paypal to complete the transaction. The whole process took me less than 5 minutes.

Interested? Check out a worthy cause below and get involved!