While we're being all charitable, here's a link to FreeRice's charity vocabulary quiz. It's pretty simple: They give you odd words, you guess the meanings, and for each word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice to an international aid agency.
Do you have a large vocabulary? Are you looking for an Internet-based way to waste time? Well, here's a way to make that work for you.
(FreeRice link via a mailing list.)
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Saying thanks is one of the best things we can do to appreciate the good things in our lives. This goes for our partners, friends, families, coworkers, acquaintances, and for some of us, our dear readers.
I finally got around to visiting freerice.com, a vocabulary game that lets you "win" donations of rice for needy countries.
Ethan Zuckerman (who is on the Wikimedia Advisory Board) has a post discussing Wikipedia's recent fundraising drive, with some comparative numbers:
There's no way, BTW, that James got to 60. :-)
I have a pretty decent vocabulary (Like I always say, "My vocabulary is really...really...big."), and I got to level 40, briefly, and hovered between 37-39 toward the end of my first 1000 grains of rice.
How much rice is 1000 grains anyway? Enough for a family meal?
Oh, and there's no way anyone can get to 60, since there are only 50 levels.
Got to level 50 without cheating. I am proud of me. Took me 4180 grains of rice. This is addictive