C-Hawk
Free RiceEntry #5
Really? As in not just say you care about the situation in Darfour when you can't even point out where it is on a map? Yes, i am judging your first-world ass.
Go to these websites. They explain themselves.
"Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope."
Give Water
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
FreePoverty. Play darts with the World.
You get asked to pinpoint a city on the planet, and depending on your accuracy, anywhere between 0 and 10 cups of water are donated.
HelpThirst. Remember?
Designed to improve short-term memory by showing you a sequence of numbers and asking you to repeat them. Great if you think you have ADD. One cup per correct answer. It also helps improve your short-term memory.
Feed People
Rice is great when you're hungry and want 2000 of something.
- Mitch Hedberg
Hoongle. Google with a cause. <- No longer active.
It's just like regular Google, only it sends part of it's advertising revenue to the World Food Programme, enough to buy 20 grains of rice per search. Set it as your home page, or install the plugin to IE7 or Firefox.
I didn't find this one, Tancrisism did.
Free Rice. Feed people while you learn something.
Ansquer questions to feed people in need, one click = 10 grains of rice. Improve your knowledge of the following subjects in the process:
# Art;
# Chemistry;
# Geography;
# Languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian);
# Math.
There are people so hungry that God only appears to them in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Free Flour. Get enough flour to make buns or even loaves.
This one seems a bit newer than Free Rice and doesn't allow for choosing specific subjects. However, it's a lot more difficult than Free Rice, and a lot more ad intensive.
Thank you to seridon for posting this one.
Scientific Research: Cure Diseases, Discover Cold Fusion, etc
We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
- Bill Watterson
BOINC (teehee i said "boinc")
Berkeley's Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. The general idea is that you'd rather fight a single great white than two hundred pirañas; the same applies to supercomputers. A single supercomputer is weaker than a network of hundreds or thousands of personal computers, for a variety of reasons. Your computer spends most of its time doing nothing, even if you think you give it a pretty hard work-out. BOINC uses your computer's "free time" to help scientific research in areas like:
# Math
# Physics
# Astronomy
# Chemistry
# Biology
# Medicine
# Computer Science
# Cryptology
(Example: There's one project dedicated to decoding an ENIGMA transmission from 1942 that was never cracked.)
The magic of BOINC is that you can choose from any sub-project listed, or join a "unified" project (these are most successful, as when research in a sub-project ends, the project managers move on to the next sub-project)
(I did have an entry for Stanford's folding@home here, but BOINC trumps f@h in that f@h only does protein folding research for Stanford where BOINC is used worldwide for everything that can use distributed computing.)
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6/27/11
Oh and.
Helping needy children makes me horny.
Famine is sexy.
6/22/11
I want prove that free rice works though.
I've used it once or twice but every time I do it someone picks ten grains of rice puts em in an envolope and mails it to wherever. Sorry but like that it's hard to believe. They probably help but not as much as you'd think they do.
It's always nice to give anything though whether it's help or food.
Although I'm sure people in the Congo are getting pretty tired if receiving fucking bibles.
lol obviously that's not how it works. At one point they had a direct partnership with the WFP, which FreeRice left because of mismanagement by the WFP. Details weren't released, which normally means someone embezzled, in this case on the WFP's side. So if they're cleaner than the WFP, there's not that many other organizations you can trust as much.
5/15/11
We can only hope!
4/20/11
Helpthirst is down.
I already have BOINC installed (Dutch Power Cows for the win!), have spend alot of time on freerice and just did freepoverty.
Huh, yes, helpthirst -is- down... Hope they fix it soon.
Freepoverty has made me hate Australia. You get to Super-Hard and it's all "OO EE OO AH-AH CHANG CHANG WALLAWALLA BANGBANG, AUSTRALIA?" and you're all " D: ".
3/12/11
It's great that you're trying to change the world. I'm flying to Africa with my brother as a volunteer next Summer. We won't save the world, but we can sure as hell make a few people's life easier.
Be sure to post about it, it should be more interesting than 99% of the general forum.
2/9/11
YOUR NICE WHY ISNT THERE MORE PPL LIKE YOU
BECAUSE THEN THEY'D HAVE TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE WHO CAN'T CAPSLOCK
8/24/10
Not enough animal/wildlife charity
Good point, FINDING ME SOME as soon as i have the time.
3/7/10
I gain nothing from feeling depressed or sorry for the masses whose fate will be swerved but not stopped by all the efforts of a million pitiful philanthropists.
Yeah, i went through the whole dark metal phase as well. Then i turned 9 years old and decided i had shit to do.
11/14/09
I want you.
Stay away from me, assburger boy. >:C
7/12/09
Now I'm suspicious...
IT WASN'T SEMEN >:C
7/11/09
Holy shit what's up with her hand >:C
She had just put her hand on some sort of goo that was not semen, before you ask.
7/11/09
You're killing me C-Hawk lmfao.
7/1/09
I'd be like "Hey, you're hot".
Lol
And how about now? =P
6/23/09
That chick is still pretty darn hot.
It would be funny if she had an NG account and commented here.
6/3/09
Faggot.
Ohi cast <3
5/31/09
you are now a female too? sigh
Yes. I hope to get enough surgery done that you won't be gay for sexing me.
5/30/09
That chick in your Profile pic is hot as hell.
I'm not particularly fond of her, just picked her out at random.
5/18/09
Hoongle died on me. :(
Yes, it would seem that way. They've posted a note now:
- "The site has grown beyond our means as college students. As a result, we have decided to go offline until we resolve these issues."
But do note:
- "During this time any searches performed using hoongle will all be redirected to standard Google search."
Which means there's no need to un-bookmark it. Just hope they come back online soon.
5/10/09
I have Hoogle bookmarked.
Great. I just get the feeling of being a slight hipocrite when i search for porn using Hoongle =3
5/8/09
I don't really care about helping the world. Free rice is a cool site though.
If you're gonna fold use the gpu2 client (assuming your gpu isn't absolute shite)
It is shit, i'm on a laptop that's been through a lot of shit and my desktop's been dead for over a year. I intend to fix that when i come across some more money though.
4/27/09
Very nice word spreading. I think i'll put a link to this newspost in my sig. freerice.com here I come ;)
I appreciate that, thank you.
4/22/09
You're a good person <3
Lies and slandurrrrr! Thanks anyway <3
4/22/09
Just to say that there is another website that is basically the same idea of the free rice but with bread. Anyway here's the link http://www.freeflour.com/Default.aspx
Excellent, thank you very much. I'll add it to my post.
4/21/09
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4/21/09
Just added Hoongle as my default searchbar addon, thanks for the tip.
Thank ->you<-! You could drop Tancrisism a line about it as well, he's the one that introduced me to Hoongle.
4/20/09
Thats what she said?????
Many women have supported these causes, yes. Perhaps YOU *points crooked finger* good sir, could kill some time on freerice.org instead of achievement whoring so much.
4/10/09
Great news post.
Thank you, sir.
3/29/09
That's great and all, but rice doesn't exactly contain all the nutrients you need.
Of course, it's much better than nothing; I only knew about freerice, thanks for the heads-up.
That is an excellent point.
The reasons why rice is the grain of choice for charity are many. For example, the countries that produce most rice are normally in economic difficulties themselves, and given the correct climate, it's a very easy high-yield crop.
The normal countries of destination for the charity rice are places where the most common crops are peanuts, maize and wheat.
Maybe in the future the project will expand further, which is quite probable. I remember when FreeRice only had the vocabulary part, Folding@Home didn't have support for GPUs or multiple CPUs, and i didn't even know about Hoongle until Tancrisism mentioned it in a thread. Who knows? FreeRice might evolve to a point where you could choose what to give to who and from where and it would change to "FreeGrain".
3/26/09
I was looking for this song ever since you linked me to it on Stickam - thanks for posting it!
You might like this one as well, although it's quite a bit more depressing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt k7RkNit_g
3/12/09
lol portuguese
LOL Canadian. Also, personal "attacks" are lulzy, as are capitalization and punctuation.
3/11/09
Meh, I'll settle for the 50%, because I use library computers, seeing as how I don't have on of my own.
Then you are pardoned.
3/10/09
Usually, I spend around 30 minutes on FreeRice each day, although I try to get more time in if I can.
That's because you're made of 50% awesome. Now install that BOINC to become über-awesome. >:C