Free Rice

[pecunium]

The idea behind Free Rice is to convince people to donate a little time, and some clicks, to feeding people.

I'm all for it. The GDP of the world last year was enough to give everyone on the planet 10,000 USD (hat-tip to willshetterly for the info, y'all might want to read his blog). Most of that ended up in a very small number of pockets.

But Free Rice convinced some of those pockets to kick in a penny or two, for every correctly answered question on vocabulary. They start at level "40" and adjust based on the answers. The more people who answer a word correctly, the lower the level of that word gets.

I'm hovering around 49, with the intermittent rise to 50. It's not trivially easy, but if one has a good vocabulary, and is able to tease out the way the words are built, it's possible to see words; absent context, which one has never seen before, and get them right.

So you learn something, and you help someone.

So far, I've been correct often enough to send 5,000 grains of rice.

Go thou and do likewise.

Comments

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

Oh this is fun. I could do this all day!