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It was bound to happen. The NYT professed its love for the latest YouTube hit—Matt Harding's video, "Dancing," in which he videotapes himself dancing in locales around the world. (Harding posted the video on his own site back in 2004, but a new version recently appeared on YouTube—along with sponsorship from Stride gum.) "In many ways 'Dancing' is an almost perfect piece of Internet art: it’s short, pleasingly weird and so minimal in its content that it’s open to a multitude of interpretations." Click to watch the happiest thing on earth...before any other large media outlets watch it first.