New York Times Magazine article about freerice.com

[XemaSab]

Online entertainment improves on older forms, like television, by way of its activeness. For example, watching a presidential debate on TV is passive. Hunting for, commenting on, remixing and forwarding a YouTube video of someone being Tasered at a political event is active. Despite the unassailable nature of this popular critique, engagement can be judged in other ways. For example, among the many time-killing activities the World Wide Web makes available is FreeRice.com. While it is surely a diverting time killer, it is more than that: it’s a self-improvement time killer on behalf of a greater good. Let’s break it down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/magazine/09wwln-consumed-t.html?ref=magazine

And a link to the website itself, in case you have free time not taken up by DU:

www.freerice.com

[EFerrari]

1. I got carpal tunnel from that site.

And, may again. :)

[Suich]

2. Whew!

I was afraid the article was going to say it's a scam! I play it all the time!

:)

[Mythsaje]

3. I passed it along to one of my authors loops some time back.

I'm sure it saw a LOT of action from THAT crowd.

:D