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October 25, 2007

food for the brain and body

Posted by jesse at 02:04 PM ET

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So you're sitting at your desk pretending to be hard at work, staring attentively at the screen while you put yet another jack of spades on top of the stack to complete your three hundredth game of solitaire. While you're busy looking busy, why not do something useful?

Freerice.com helps to end world hunger and increases your vocabulary at the same time. This highly addictive site donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program for every word definition you get right. The words gradually get harder or easier as you get answers right or wrong, and the unobtrusive advertising on the bottom of the screen pays for the rice while you improve your vocab. Know what it means to filch something? Go to freerice.com and you could actually put that knowledge to some good use.

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Wow. That was awesome. Thanks for the share.

Posted by: Robert at October 26, 2007 12:42 PM

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Love it, Jesse! I donated 300 grains in about 10 minutes at work. (Can't get above level 40, though!)

Posted by: mason at October 26, 2007 09:58 PM

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I'm pretty sure 40 is solid. Some of those words are RAN-dom. If it wasn't for the GRE all-star, Nora, I think we would've donated minus rice.

Posted by: jesse at October 26, 2007 10:31 PM

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thanks for the shout-out, jesse -- very unctuous of you.

Posted by: nora at October 29, 2007 05:56 PM

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ooh. that is addictive. i made it to 41 -- mason, maybe that's why i'm beating you in scrabulous.

Posted by: jessica at October 31, 2007 01:49 AM

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