FreeRice: Even More Addictive

FreeRice (which I have written about before) is an absolutely addictive website that has gotten even better. In addition to its vocabulary game, it has added a whole host of other ways to test your brain, eat up enormous amounts of time, and allow you to donate ten grains of rice for every correct answer. Last night I played the geography game for the first time, and if anything, it is more addictive than he vocab game. You can rationalize the two hours you are about to kill by the fact that when all is said and done you will help donate a meal or two to the UN World Food Program.

Finally! A Democratic Convention Drinking Game

At The New Republic Jeremy Bronson and Daniel Chun introduce the DNC Drinking Game. As they introduce the game, "Want to watch the Democratic National Convention, but afraid it'll distract from your alcoholism? The DNC Drinking Game can help. Pour yourself a cocktail (or a latte) and prepare to get drunk on booze and hope."

The majority of these conventions, GOP and Democrat alike, are best viewed through a drunken haze, though the highlights can be great. For the democrats the speeches by Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama were world beaters last night. The rest: Eh. Expect the convention to crescendo as the days pass. They always do.

FreeRice

Want to do something about global hunger? Don't want to get up from your computer screen? Know a lot about words? Dumb as a post and know little about words but willing to sit there for a long time? Go to FreeRice and play the game that lets your knowledge of vocabulary (or that tenacity of yours) feed the hungry. For every one you get right, 20 grains of rice go to the UN's World Food Program courtesy of your big brain and the site's advertisers. Read more about the game and its origins in this article from USA Today. Bookmark FreeRice, go in every so often, spend ten minutes, and all of those grains of rice will add up fast. Then come and lie about your scores.