Max Vs. The Internet

FreeRice is a simple word game that is surprisingly compelling. Match words with their meaning, and for every word you match correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program.

It's cleanly designed to the point of being stark, but with an immediate reward that closes its compulsion loop. Additionally, there's a nice sense of personal investment and challenge because the game grades and tracks your vocabulary level as you play.

Via Omniglot

Hey, IMD bro-from-long-ago, James Miao, is trying to get his website, thesixtyone, dugg. If you approve of free music, an MMO-like compulsion system for browsing, and light social networking, check it out.

In James' own words:

Many of you know that I left USC last January to make a music
discovery game called "thesixtyone" (www.thesixtyone.com).
thesixtyone just went public a week or two ago, and we've already
begun to gain some solid momentum, all via word of mouth.

But the AWESOME news is that one of our fans just submitted us to this
popular news site called Digg...Digg lets the people vote on popular
discussion topics like websites, youtube videos, and news articles.

WHAT JAMES NEEDS TODAY: In order to maximize this opportunity, our
Digg submission needs at least 75 people to signup on Digg (it
literally takes <30 seconds) and click the digg button to get our site
featured on Digg's frontpage. Just follow this link to Digg us:

http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_for_Music_sort_of_MMO_like

I'm eternally grateful for your support! Plus, if any of your are
ever in the SF Bay Area, let me know so we can catch up!

James

I've played with this a little bit, but I'm not a music guy. Resident IMD music hipster PVD seems to like it, as well as all around awesomator, Jared, so it must be good.

Digg Link