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Use your vast vocabulary to help others get Vast amount of rice

Fancy yourself with a good grasp of the English language? Think you have the best vocabulary among your friends? Well, why don’t you use your considerate skills to help the poor and hungry people around the world. FreeRice is a site where you play a vocabulary game to help donate grains of rice to the hungry. Each of your correct answers will donate 10 grains of rice which will be distributed by United Nations World Food Program (WFP). Go to the WFP website to learn more about how they plan to reduce and eliminate hunger.

You might think 10 grains of rice is pretty insignificant, but at the moment FreeRice have donated, through this program, 3,664,079,450 grains of rice. To put it in perspective, suppose a person needs 3500 grains of rice a day. Doing the maths, FreeRice is now feeding 1,000,000+ people. That’s great from just donating 10 grains per question.

The other purpose of the vocabulary game is to improve your vocabulary. There are 50 levels of difficulty for this game and for every question you answered correctly, the difficulty increase one level. One satisfying thing is that while doing the questions, you will see a bowl filled up with grains every time you answered correctly (see above). Encourage you to keep on going.

So while thinking of ways to make money online, why don’t we also help the poor and hungry if we can. So start donating grains of rice and improve your vocabulary at the same time now with FreeRice.

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George Lucas remastered "Singin’ in the rain"

Geoge Lucas take a break from his busy schedule to digitally remastered the American Classic “Singin’ in the Rain”. Guest starring “Jabba” from Starwars with the legendary quote:

Gotta Dance.

(iFilm link)

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Need Business Loan? No problem with ezunsecured.com

Do you need a Business Loan but do not have any existing asset to act as a collateral? Well, EZunsecured.com specialized in getting unsecured loans for you.

Of course, you can do it alone and submit your loan applications to different lenders. But using EZunsecure is a very easy process. You just have to fill up the application form online, wait for 1-3 days (No Doc loan application) for approval. Once approved, the money should be in your checking account within 3-14 days. Now, that’s fast funding.

Another great service EZunsecure provides is there are absolutely no upfront funding fees. That means you will only need to pay the fees only when you get you money. No funding, no fees.

That means there are no risk involved in signing up with them. So fill up your application form now and let EZunsecure do all the work for you.

Firefox 3 beta1 - I can see a killer browser coming

I switch from Opera to Firefox 2 a few months back. I love my Opera and the reasons I switch is because Opera have issues with website javascript and doesn’t display certain sites properly. During this few months of using Firefox, I start to understand why everyone is recommending Firefox.

Firefox 3 beta1 is here now and I recommend you to play around with it as this is a major upgrade. It is built on the new Gecko 1.9 Web platform that will make it more secure, more user friendly and more options for personalizations.

(note: installing the beta will overwrite your current Firefox installation, so backup first.)

Here are some of the features I am excited about:

More Security

• One click site info - Click on the favicon to know who owns the site. Works with the phishing filters to give you protection against duplicate scam sites.
• Malware Protection - Inform you that the site is known for installing trojans and malware on your machine. If steps are taken to prevent innocent sites from being tagged, this could be a major features for new web users.
• Anti-virus integration - What if you do not have antivirus? Just joking, everyone has antivirus installed. Firefox3 will inform your antivirus guy to scan the current file download.

Easier to Use

• Easier password management - The feature I am most looking forward to. Now Firefox 2 will save any password before it successfully logged into your account. With Firefox 3, it will prompt you to save the password After it has log into your account. No incorrect password laying around in your Password manager.
• New Download Manager with Resumable downloading - Another big one. Makes it easier to locate your downloaded files. Resumable download is important to me as my ADSL line drops frequently.
• Full page zoom - Been waiting for this since I switch over from Opera.

More Personal

• Star button - One click to bookmark and another click to tag it. How convenient is that. Hmm, do I still used my Del.icio.us account?
• Web-based protocol handlers - Now I can used my Gmail when I click on any “mailto:” protocol on the web. I don’t used Windows live mail and I hate it when it opens when I click mailto: now.

Improved Performance

• Speed - Firefox is not that slow even with Firefox 2 but more speed is always welcome.
• Memory usage - My pet peeve with Firefox 2. It’s always hungry for more memory even when it is consuming 200+ Mb on my system. Looking forward to how Firefox 3 can improve this.

Well, are you excited about the upcoming release of Firefox 3? Write your comments below to show your excitement or disappointment.

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Happy Thanksgiving - I thank you, from BlogMunch

After the carved pumpkins comes stuffed turkeys. Ah, how we humans like to celebrate our festive seasons while exploiting the lesser beings on Earth.

From Bmunch

Hey hey, where did that come from? I am trying to come up with a witty opening and that depressing thingy came out? Something must be wrong with me.

Well, although I don’t have the time to scout around the web to find 52 interesting stuffings for this Thanksgiving Day, let’s just be thankful for a few funny pictures and clips I find within this hour.

But first in the spirit the festive season, I would like to be thankful for:

1. My wife and twin daughters for bringing new meaning and joy to my life.
2. My daytime job for supporting me with an income while I am indulging myself with this blog.
3. Problogger’s Darren whose 31 days to building a better blog brought me and is still bringing me traffic to this undernourished BlogMunch.
4. DoshDosh’s Maki for showing me there are more ways to monitize a blog other than Adsense. I got inspired to do T-shirt affiliated marketing through reading his “So You Want to Make Money Online: An Extensive Guide to T-Shirt Affiliate Marketing“.
5. Donaldlim’s Donald for guiding me when I wanted to shift from Blogger to Wordpress. Introduce me to Bluehost too. Hey Donald, do update your blog more frequently.
6. All my commenters and those who have email me. I have learn from you and I hope you find BlogMunch interesting. Come back more frequently.

Without further ado, here’s some funny pics and clips.

(credit: themeansfamily and cleverpun)

(credit: Mike Adams and HelloCrazy)

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