Gharbad - Slashdot User

Freerice: Feeing the world and increasing vocab 0

Submitted by Gharbad on Wednesday November 14 2007, @02:49PM

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..."

Canada's mobile access worse than 3rd world

Submitted by Gharbad on Wednesday April 11 2007, @11:12AM

Gharbad writes "Unless there's a major problem with the data in this poll, I'm surprised at what this article means to Canadians. Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access. From the article "This chart charts the best rates available from all carriers. And all levels of government say that "ICT" competitiveness is key factor in Canada's future economic prosperity. Ya. Right. I would like to say that Canada is a 3rd world country when it comes to Mobile ICT, except you can clearly see from this chart that even *Rwanda* has orders of magnitude better Mobile Data service than Canada.""