Mashable.com ran an article the other day about good things you can do with 5 minutes or $25. Maybe I'm just cheap (ok, evidently I am), but I gravitated to one of the free programs, Free Rice.
It's really simple. Answer trivia questions on the topic you choose. Ok, so they're not really trivia so much as multiple choice test questions, but trivia makes it sound more fun. For every question you get right, the sponsors donate 10 grains of rice. It's not a lot, but you can keep clicking until your finger falls off and when you multiply that by a few thousand people then the food really starts moving. While your efforts are measured in grains of rice, that number is converted to a dollar amount so the donors just write a check to the UN World Food Program.
That's it. There's no registration, no high score, nothing. Just click and give rice. The really good part is each subject has different levels so the questions keep getting harder until you miss one, then it goes down a level until you earn back up. I'm doing the Spanish questions, trying to learn a few words that just never come up in a kitchen. So while you're waiting to harvest your artichokes, open a new tab and give some real food to really starving people.
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