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Old 10-19-2007, 01:37 PM
jokerthief jokerthief is offline
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Default Free Rice Project

This is a pretty cool project. It's a site that asks you vocabulary questions and donates ten grains of rice for every question you get right to feed people in famine situations. It really is an ingenious idea. They get the revenue to pay for the rice by having sponsor's ads at the bottom of every question. The more traffic they get, the more exposure the sponsors get, the more rice the famished get, and the users get a better command of the English language. It's a win, win, win situation.

As a reference it takes 7250 grains of rice to equal a cup.

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Old 10-19-2007, 01:42 PM
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very cool.
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Old 10-19-2007, 01:44 PM
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I can look in the mirror and say, "Michael, because of you, some little kid in the Congo has a belly full of rice this evening." Just makes you feel good.
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Old 10-19-2007, 01:54 PM
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some little kid in the Congo has a belly full of rice this evening

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Christ, at 10 grains, how many freaking questions did you answer?
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Old 10-19-2007, 02:05 PM
Los Feliz Slim Los Feliz Slim is offline
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Does it stop at some point? I'm at 500 grains.
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Old 10-19-2007, 02:08 PM
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That's a fun little game. I've punched up to level 47 a couple of times, but it's definitely doing a good job of finding words I've never seen. Educated guesses for the win, I suppose. (EDIT: I feel ridiculously smug for making it up to level 49 now.)
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Old 10-19-2007, 05:39 PM
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I can look in the mirror and say, "This isn't a family, this is an audition for Mowgli." Just makes you feel good.

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Old 10-19-2007, 06:07 PM
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I get 10k while at work. That is the max you can do.
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Old 10-19-2007, 06:21 PM
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None of these choices is correct. And it's spelled gamboooool.

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gambol means:
evade
frolic
assume
regard highly

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Old 10-19-2007, 06:26 PM
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I get 10k while at work. That is the max you can do.

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What happens, specifically, when you hit that level?
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