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  1. Re:They had these back in 1991 too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Automated System Developed To Grade Student Essays

    Here, spend some time on this site and kill three birds with one stone...learn some new words, help feed starving people, and test your current level of vocabulary, etc., etc. :)

    http://freerice.com/

  2. Re:World of Goo by rwa2 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters?

    Yeah, my favorite time-wasters at the moment (most tend to rely on playing with other humans):

    Web:
    http://fantasticcontraption.com/ : build 2D rigs to solve puzzles.
    http://freerice.com/ : buff your SAT words, earn grains of rice for charity
    http://youdontknowjack.com/ : nice weekly trivia quiz, 1-2 players (maybe, haven't done this for a decade or so)

    PC:
    World of Tanks (15 minute battles, free to play)

    Android:
    Wordfeud: Scrabble where you can play multiple people at once, and have up to 2 days per turn.
    Chess Online: timed games against similarly-ranked players... you can wrap up pretty quickly
    SketchIt Online: Pictionary, and sometime penis.
    Zombie, Run! : Get from point A to point B IRL, while running away from zombies on your GPS map.

    But mostly I just Fark and Slashdot.

  3. Re:Advertisements for the poor by 1u3hr · · Score: 1 · on A New Idea, For People Who Want To See More Banner Ads
    Details: http://www.freerice.com/index.php
    • Click on the right answer in the middle of this page.
    • If you get it right, you get a harder question. If you get it wrong, you get an easier question.
    • For each answer you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
  4. Re:Advertisements for the poor by 1u3hr · · Score: 3, Informative · on A New Idea, For People Who Want To See More Banner Ads
    Has anyone ever thought of making a website where you watch nothing but advertisements with the knowledge that the money made for the website goes directly to feeding the poor?

    http://www.freerice.com/index.php

  5. Re:ressourcenhungriger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy

    I can't wait for it to show up on freerice.com!

  6. A simple illustrative example by iaminthetrunk · · Score: 1 · on Academic Games Are No Fun

    Take http://www.freerice.com/ as a simple illustrative example.

    It's incidental that hungry people get feed by the ad views on the page while I guess words, I just like guessing the words. At best it gives me an excuse to rationalize playing. The game format is what feeds the academic / humanitarian purpose, not the other way around.

    Guessing words for ad views for buying rice is trivial, but makes obvious at a glance the bare essentials of the article posters' argument, and that it scales up.

    Academic games are fun if you yourself like the academic subject qua itself, (bare-bones finite state machine coding 'games' are an example of this), but that audience is almost always just too narrow.

  7. ok further offtopic by blackest_k · · Score: 1 · on Open-Source Early Literacy Materials Gaining Some Attention

    The grammar nazi's will love this one

    http://www.freerice.com/

    Anyone can increase their vocabulary here, at the same time helping to feed some of the worlds poorest people.
    so far it's snowballing quite nicely

    makes a change from freecell.