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free rice dot com

Posted by williamhessian • 10/26/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: free rice, hunger

zombierobotfrosting.blogspot.com/2007/10/freericecom-website-review.html

have you all seen www.freerice.com?

i review it above. but check out the site and earn free rice for a fight to end hunger.

User Comments

10/26/07

CheapGourmet

What a fabulous way to hone your skills and learn new words! I donated 310 grains of rice. Thanks for sharing, this is cool!

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10/26/07

williamhessian

yeah. i agree with you. its a neat site.
vocab is good stuff.

i challenge anyone to get a vocab score above 42 without cheating

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1. 10/26/07
  
  infonistacrat
  
  My high was 36 before I missed two in a row. I left at 500 gains and a score of 34.
  
  42 would be insane!
10/26/07

kab625

Okay, who's going to count thirty seven million grains of rice? I facilitated 800 grains. Very cool. It didn't stop me when I missed words, I got to keep going.

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10/26/07

clairec23

Everyone is blogging about this site I got 41, can't seem to get past it, I've wasted way too much time on that site, it's great.

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10/26/07

Wawaron

Very good Idea :o) Bravo

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10/26/07

rinkydinky

hrm, it SOUNDS like a good idea "aww, how nice, we are giving people rice". and i understand that some help is better than no help but.... how do we even know that the rice is actually getting there and they arnt just exploiting peoples sympathy?

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1. 10/26/07
  
  dpivans1
  
  41...I guess that is pretty decent. Will have to try again tomorrow...man, I hate these addictive little things...but, it's for a great cause!
2. 10/26/07
  
  Norski
  
  I still am not convinced that "free rice" isn't some sort of con.
  
  But working assumption for the moment is that it is a legitimate charity.
  
  I don't see how people visiting the website and participating would make money for anyone. But, I'm not a confidence trickster, so I could me missing something.
3. 10/26/07
  
  Norski
  
  Another point: Has anyone been able to verify that people who need it have actually gotten rice?
  
  Don't get the wrong idea: I think that "free rice" is a fine idea, if a quirky one.
10/26/07

clairec23

It says on the site that the rice is paid for out of the sponsor's money and the rice is then donated to the United Nations. The site only started this month so I really don't know.

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