FreeRice.com

Woo hoo! I just got to vocab level 45! (And have donated 780 grams of rice.)

I blame Patrick O'Brian -- lots and lots of words no longer in use in those books.

I'm enjoying FreeRice.com, but...

I just looked it up and it takes roughly 29,000 grains of long white rice to make a pound.

So in playing for about 30 minutes (with a top vocab level of 47 but a median of closer to 43, out of 50), I've donated 4,000 grains... or about 1/7 of a pound.

Also, in Googling it, I found this page: http://debrisblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/free-rice-or-free-publicity/

I'll still play, but will give to the World Food Programme in dollars as well as vocab, since the former will go a lot further.