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Postby Dr. Goodword » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:31 am

Has everyone seen http://www.freerice.com ? Do good while you see how strong your vocabulary is.
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Postby Bailey » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:39 am

Ok I tried but it kinda pooped out on me. the site just quit after I was getting an awesome score too. But I did donate over two thousand grains of rice.

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Postby Perry » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:41 pm

Wow. I got pressed for time after 460 grains. How long did you spend at it?
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Postby Bailey » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:50 pm

Perry it's addictive it seemed like hours,

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Postby Bailey » Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:56 pm

I earned another 2480 grains hardly enough to feed one person, but I feel it might help, who counts the grains?

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Postby sluggo » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:13 pm

I find ideas like this bizarre. If they have all this rice, why are they holding it back in wait for we whimsical word wizards? And does that give us some kind of lordship over yon peasantry? And what if we don't want said lordship? Are we to feel guilty if we play until we drop and the next needy person goes hungry?

Very suspicious. I wonder if there's a grain of truth in it.
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Postby Bailey » Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:42 am

Slugger, I agree, I was thinking such; I felt like a hamster trying to power a city with a squirrel cage.

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Postby bnjtokyo » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:10 am

From the FAQs on the FreeRice website:

If FreeRice has the rice to give, why not give it all away right now?
FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice―you are earning it 10 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.

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Postby Bailey » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:39 am

Ten grains of even long grain wild rice isn't even a mouthful, hence my desperation at pedaling away to adequately feed a single person per day.

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Postby sluggo » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:03 pm

So that's it. Thanks bnj.
Funny, I didn't notice any ads (best not tell 'em)...

So we may safely shift the burden of guilt to said advertisers. Done.
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Postby Slava » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:52 pm

Well, I'm too late. I was just going to post this idea, but it's already there.

As it's run through the UN's World Food Program, I believe in it. A couple of clicks a day will add up, if everyone does it. However, there is that old adage about giving someone a fish, or teaching them to fish. Then again, there are times you have to give someone a fish so you have time to teach them how to fish.

I've never gone over a thousand grains a sit, so kudos to the patient ones out there. I notice that yesterday, Thanksgiving, while many were stuffing their face, the donation total went down significantly. Hmmm.

One problem I have with the site is that there don't seem to be enough words. They repeat after a while, and what with all the dictionaries out there, this should be avoidable. However, it's for a good cause.

Another such site, though without any linguistic tie-in, is actually a family of sites. Go to: theliteracysite.com and you'll find 5 others you can visit for a-click-a-day. This one donates money to buy books for children, so it's got a bit of a word association, eh?

Keep on clicking,

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Postby Perry » Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:17 pm

Give a man a fish, and he has a meal for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he has to have a rod, reel, line, leader, flies, tying stand, waders, wading shoes, a hat, a net...
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Postby sluggo » Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:41 pm

Ah, but teach a fish to man and then you have something interesting.
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Postby Bailey » Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:06 pm

Give a man a fish, and he has a meal for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he has to have a rod, reel, line, leader, flies, tying stand, waders, wading shoes, a hat, a net...
A LICENSE!!!, a boat, a good motor, and a quiet friend.

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Postby gailr » Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:36 pm

I noticed the comments about the site timing out??? I closed the window myself after I reached my goal score, doubled that, and rounded it up again, but there was no indication that the site was timing out even then. Can you guys tell me what you're seeing on your pcs?

Like Slava, I noticed the repeating words rather early on; I was quite surprised by them. I did smile at seeing a missed word drop the vocab level, and how many correct answers it took to restore it.

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