Your First Good Deed of the New Year!

Play this fun (and addictive!) word game, and sponsors make small contributions to the UN World Food Programme for every word you get right. Everybody wins!

Happy New Year 2009!

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The Rice Game, Redux

“What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially.” - The Washington Post

I saw a sobering BBC News report earlier this week about the global rice shortage. Prices for this staple crop have risen 70% in the past year, many countries face extreme shortages and have called out the military to supervise sales, and the world’s poorest populations are especially at risk. All the more reason to help out even in a small way, with The Rice Game. This web site takes “click to give” to new levels. The lure is a vocabulary game: choose the correct definition for a word, “win” 20 grains of rice for the United Nations World Food Programme. Does 20 grains per word really amount to much? Yesterday’s total: 156,133,700 grains of rice donated (March’s total = 4,109,191,320 grains.) Happy procrastination, word games, and giving to a good cause. What could be better?

Play the Rice Game today — you’ll be hooked! And hungry people will benefit from our fun.

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13 Things: Free Ways to Give Back on the Web

In the spirit of Thirteen Thursdays, and the holiday month, here are 13 terrific ways to give back, for free, on the web. (For a 14th, check out Free Rice in an earlier post.):

1. Kiehls’ Click for Greenland (global warming)
2. The Hunger Site
3. The Child Health Site
4. The Breast Cancer Site
5. The Literacy Site
6. The Rainforest Site
7. The Animal Rescue Site
8. Care2’s Race to Stop Global Warming: Carbon Offset
9. Care 2’s Race to Save the Oceans
10. Sign a Petition at Care2
11. Send an email message for Human Rights at Amnesty International
12. Place a prayer in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalm, via email
13. Donate to charity with each web search at GoodSearch
    

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The Rice Game

I’ve been busy lately at my public blog, Daily Mitzvah, and neglecting my personal blog over here. But I just discovered something worth blogging about: The Rice Game! This web site takes “click to give” to new levels. The fascination is a vocabulary game: choose the correct definition for a word, “win” 20 grains of rice for the United Nations World Food Program. (Beginning today, the site has raised its correct-word donation from 10 to 20 grains of rice. So an auspicious day to blog about them!) Does 20 grains per word really amount to much? Yesterday’s total: 187,906,380 grains of rice donated. Killing time, word play, games, and giving to a good cause. What could be better?

Play the Rice Game today — you’ll be hooked!

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