Gharbad - Slashdot User

Freerice: Feeing the world and increasing vocab 0

Submitted by Gharbad on Wednesday November 14 2007, @01:49PM

Gharbad writes "FreeRice, another in the long line of internet time wasters, except with a twist. Each answer you give correctly, helps send food to third world countries. How to play: Click on the answer that best defines the word. If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance..."

Merrill Lynch: 30% of U.S. Households to Own Wii b

Submitted by

njkid1

on Thursday February 22 2007, @10:56AM

njkid1 writes "According to a report in the Financial Times, the Wii's sales momentum is so strong that some analysts have upgraded their long-term outlooks for the console. Nintendo's new console just came off a very strong performance in January, easily selling more consoles than either the Xbox 360 or Sony's PS3. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=1530 9&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000022"

First exoplanet atmospheres analyzed

Submitted by

deblau

on Wednesday February 21 2007, @05:24PM

deblau writes "NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of individual molecules in their atmospheres. The landmark achievement is a significant step toward being able to detect possible life on rocky exoplanets and comes years before astronomers had anticipated."

Google Evesdropping?

Submitted by

iuvasago

on Wednesday February 21 2007, @04:39PM

iuvasago writes "Google is apparently snooping in on chat session through their GoogleTalk application. A user jokingly told one of his friends to click on a few of his ads when looking at some pictures on his site. The next day (less than 24 hours) the user received an e-mail from the Google Adsense team reporting fraudulent clicks on his website. See http://spanglenuts.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-eav esdropping.html for the whole story."