>> Farhad of The Machinist misses the paper paper. Sometimes, I kind of do too — I’m thinking of subscribing to the Sunday NY Times again.
>> Donate rice via the UN while improving your vocabulary. 10 grains of rice get donated for each vocab word you define correctly, thanks to advertisers. I can’t get past vocab level 42 — and I don’t know if the rice is genetically modified. My guess is probably. (via Treehugger)
October 25th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I got to 47, but that’s because I’m a medievalist. About half the words you would only know if you spent a lot of time with Middle English and Eary Modern literature — kinda cheating if you ask me.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Level 50! Although I wonder how they decided on relative difficulty, in some cases.