Brush up on your vocab, while helping world hunger

This website, http://www.freerice.com/, FREE Rice lets you play a simple brain builder vocab game and for every question you get right they donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. 22 countries are involved in helping. Is is going to make a HUGE difference? Probably not, but it can't hurt.

People ARE starting to get wind of this site and the donations have risen steadily.

TOTAL DONATIONS BY DAY

October 7 830
October 10 287,960
October 15 6,403,920

And In November...

November 16 198,342,510
November 29 383,730,260

Cool huh?



EXAMPLE:

scrupulous means:

1. very many
2. conscientious
3. gruesome
4. additional

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Rock, Paper and Scissors. The Hilarious Truth

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!!!!!!!!! SOX MAKE OFFER TO MIKE LOWELL!!!!!

FROM ROTOWORLD.COM

MIKE LOWELL
The Red Sox have a three-year offer out to Mike Lowell that they may not be
willing to budge off of, according to the Boston Globe.

Lowell will be able to get four or maybe even five years elsewhere, something
the Red Sox must know. If they're sticking to three years, it better include a very good salary ($16 million per year or so). While Lowell wants to play in Boston, he can only leave so much money on the table.

According to the Boston Herald, the Red Sox have offered Mike Lowell a three-year
contract worth between $12 million and $15 million per season.

Boston is holding strong to their plan to avoid a fourth year, which Lowell
could likely get elsewhere, but $15 million per season might make him consider the three-year deal. The newspaper also reports that the Red Sox are "unlikely" to trade for Miguel Cabrera and could potentially replace Mike Lowell by acquiring a first baseman and sliding new Gold Glover Kevin Youkilis back across the diamond.

ERIC GAGNE
Agent Scott Boras said Eric Gagne would pursue a closer's role as a free
agent this winter. The Red Sox would surely like to see Gagne sign elsewhere quickly in order to guarantee that they'll get a draft pick. If he's still on the market this month, they'd have to risk offering him arbitration in order to land the supplemental first-round selection. After his rough second half, Gagne may be able to make more in arbitration than he would elsewhere.

MATT CLEMENT
Asked Wednesday about potentially re-signing Matt Clement, general manager
Theo Epstein said that he "probably has better options elsewhere."
Clement was a major bust in Boston, posting a 5.19 ERA in 256 1/3 innings after signing a three-year deal, but has reportedly drawn interest from the Padres and Royals now that he's available cheaply as a reclamation project.

Voting rates in MA down to 14% in most recent election

Boston's voter turnout plummeted to its lowest level in more than two decades yesterday, especially in the city's predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, a tide of apathy that swept the City Council's only Latino member, Felix Arroyo, out of office.

Did anyone know there was an election? I did, but I still didn't go, I was working... The Globe tried tried to explain these sad numbers:

Reversing a trend of increasing voting by minority groups set over the last five years, turnout was especially low in nonwhite communities and disproportionately strong in traditionally white, Irish enclaves of South Boston, West Roxbury, and Dorchester. The shift propelled West Roxbury lawyer John Connolly onto the council, replacing Arroyo.

"There's a lot of lonely poll workers out there," Boston Election Commissioner Geraldine Cuddyer said. "It's very, very sad."

SO HERE'S AN IDEA: Why don't you pay people to vote???? There is so much freakin' money wasted on campaigns, why don't they put some of that toward paying people to vote? Here's a site that promotes this idea. It might seem wacky, and I'm sure illegal, but its an interesting concept, considering how apathetic people are these days.

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Jamie Sammy back blur

Jamie Sammy back blur, originally uploaded by ssgreenspam.

At Red Sox vs. Yankees Game, Summer 2007. Fenway Park


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Your anus is what?

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Bleeding.


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Sand Kokopelli

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Sand drawings on the South Shore, Summer

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Fenway National Anthem

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Red Sox Yankees Game Summer 2007









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Ode to Wesleyan, from 1956

Wesleying published this poem (that was also in the Argus). From 1956. Amazing reflection...

Wesleyan, I hate you.
I hate scholastic pressure and
compulsory chapel credits and
the great god Integration
and yes, of course, for some reason or other
I hate South College.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
I hate all your pseudo-intellectual and
pedantic undergraduates and
optimistic jelly fish
and yes, of course, for some reason or other
I hate South College.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
I know I should have gone to school
down where the nights are gay and
the sun shines daily on the mountain top
and there are women. And
if I had to do it over again
I wouldn't come here, but never mind.
I just hate South College.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
You frown on athletics and
you build well rounded amoebas and
you have prudish house parties
and all the time South College is
telling us we're leaders.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
I hate all your arty individualists
and I hate your fraternities
because everyone is so gregarious and
I hate immediate rushing
and yes, of course, passionately
I hate South College.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
You present no more challenges for me
because I'm no more a disillusioned young freshman
and I can see through all your spurious fanfare
and when someone asks me where I go to school
and I answer, they ask me if it's a girl's school
in spite of the fact that South College tells us
that this is a top school and that everyone in
the whole wide world knows about it and
respects it. Everyone's heard of Amherst.

But Wesleyan, most of all I hate you
Because you made me introspect and
Made me feel guilty I didn't do my homework
and made me conscious of so many things
I didn't even know existed before and
Because you made me feel so stupid,
So helplessly frustrated and stupid.

And Wesleyan, I hate you
because you made me feel I owe
humanity a debt, because you made me
read poetry and listen to my nogood
roommate's problems and dress up for dinner
every night. And Wesleyan, I hate you
because you taught me how to judge,
how to criticize, how to doubt, and how to
hate. Through you I learned there was no storybook
God, and now my soul is empty and
I have to fill it somehow
all by my little lonesome self.
Wesleyan, I like you.

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My wes mail is entirely full of penis enlargement mail

..and I will never be checking it again except to delete the spam.

Case in point:

Subject: Change your peanut into a coconut
The truth is in the size
More fuel with a bigger penis

Subject: D-packed
hey sambos07 (how the f* did they get my gmail username...)
i think your taking the small penis thing way too lightly, it needs size!

Subject: Even if you don't have erection problems
When you are young and stressed up…
When you are aged and never give up…
Viagra gives you confidence in any chance, every time.

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Brady vs. Manning

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"Fucking around is in fact detrimental to the work process"

WASHINGTON, DC—According to a groundbreaking new study by the
Department of Labor, working—the physical act of engaging in a
productive job-related activity—may greatly increase the amount of work
accomplished during the workday, especially when compared with the more
common practices of wasting time and not working...

FULL STORY (From "The Onion)

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Alas, the trees will lose their leaves all in one day.

It's gon be windy!!! WTF I'm not ready to say goodbye to fall in Boston. Luckily, I will be in NYC this weekend and will miss getting knocked around by strong winds.

This just popped up on my screen (with my handy firefox weather plug-in)

Massachusetts Watches and Warnings National Weather Service Zone

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 322 PM EDT THU NOV
1 2007

DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY IN RHODE ISLAND AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. .THE REMNANTS OF THE ALREADY DEADLY TROPICAL STORM NOEL WILL EVOLVE INTO A STRONG COASTAL STORM SATURDAY.AS IT TRACKS SOUTHEAST OF NANTUCKET. THIS INCLUES THE CITIES OF...FRAMINGHAM (NOT A CITY!)...LOWELL...LAWRENCE...GLOUCESTER...FOXBORO...NORWOOD...CAMBRIDGE...BOSTON...QUINCY... TAUNTON...BROCKTON...PLYMOUTH...FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD... MATTAPOISETT...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET...FOSTER...SMITHFIELD...PROVIDENCE... WEST GREENWICH...WARWICK...BRISTOL...NARRAGANSETT...WESTERLY... NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND..blah blah

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES RHODE ISLAND AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. DAMAGING NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS IS ON CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. ALONG THE COAST FROM PROVIDENCE TO BOSTON...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH. FARTHER INLAND INTO THE INTERSTATE 495 CORRIDOR...WINDS MAY BE A BIT WEAKER WITH SUSTAINED WINDS TO 30 MPH AND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. HOWEVER... THESE LOCATIONS MAY EXPERIENCE DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES SINCE MANY TREES STILL HAVE THEIR LEAVES.

KEEP IN MIND THERE IS UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE TRACK OF THIS STORM. THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS WOULD DECREASE IF IT TRACKS FARTHER OFFSHORE... BUT WOULD INCREASE OVER MORE OF THE AREA IF IT TRACKS CLOSER TO THE COAST. A HIGH WIND WATCH MEANS THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS TO DEVELOP. THESE STRONG WINDS ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING TREES AND POWER LINES AS WELL AS CAUSING PROPERTY DAMAGE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON.

In other fun, remember hurricane bob? A willow tree fell on my house. Uncool.

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