Timewasting game + food aid = website

[denny]

http://www.freerice.com/

Comments

[kotenok.livejournal.com]

if you're bored, you could always do your replies to the icon meme post?

;)

[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

That's cool! My vocab was a bit better than I thought

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I did shockingly badly - was at level 40 by the time I'd donated 500 grains of rice, having not made it over 43 at any point. I'm embarrassed :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I got up to 50 at one point, then dropped back to around 45. Managed to stay consistently between 45 and 48, though, which isn't bad.

Not that I *knew* all of the words, but I could make educated gases based on Greek/Latin/Germanic roots.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Guesses, even. I don't know what an educated gas is, but they'll probably overthrow the noble gases in a bloody coup one of these days, you mark my words.

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

Cool. I don't know if they are scaled or just random, but they got hard quickly, but like valkyriekaren I was able to deduce most of them. At this moment I'm up to 160 grains with 3 errors and vocab level 40 (from a high of 42).

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

Ok, at 500 I've lost count of my errors, but dropped to vocab level 35 (ouch what doth this indicate about my linguistics?).

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Apparently they're scaled - if you get them right, you get harder ones, but if you get some wrong it gets easier.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Yay, got up to 50! I think I'll stop there. I never thought knowing the difference between bruxism and uxurious would come in useful, :).

Just working it out, though. Rice costs (just typed "corsets" there, Freudian typing, eh?) ten dollars a US hunrdedweight (45kg ish) on the big markets (which I guess the WFP uses). A rice grain weighs about 20mg. So, that's about 0.02c a gram), or 0.00044c a grain, and 0.0044c a question. So in the 1070 grains it took me to get to vocab 50, I "donated" just under 5 cents.

When I was in Denmark I chucked about six quids worth of loose krones in a WWF tub (not worth changing). If I'd donated it to WFP they could have got someone 2.7 million grains of rice, which is a fairly big dictionary worth, :).

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

Given that, The Hunger Site (http://www.thehungersite.com) which gave about 50 million cups in the 12 months up to June this year.

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

oops - didn't finish my sentence, I meant to add "seems a better bet, but both can't hurt".

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

Hmmm - the site is now displaying a default Apache successful install page...