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Steven Pearlstein's column describes GlobalGiving, which is looking to hook up small donors with international aid projects. Interesting numbers, they'be raised \$1.5M from 2000 donors, that's about \$750 per donor. It's also a great example of the wisdom that's in crowds:

On its Web site, GlobalGiving provided brief descriptions of 112 development projects, asking site visitors to rank them on a scale of 1 to 10. About 50,000 individuals generated 200,000 evaluations. Simultaneously, a much smaller group of several hundred aid experts was asked to perform the same task. Of the 12 projects chosen by the experts, nine were also chosen by popular vote.

An awesome flash application that lets you build a simple flipbook like animation one frame at a time. Part of the charm is the simplicity of it all, you can draw in black and white, there are no colors or erasing short of erasing the whole frame. Here's a quick doodle of a simple castle that I did.