Fun, philanthropic diversion

As both Erin and Debra have noted, here's a fun site to increase your vocabulary and fight hunger at the same time. Go to www.freerice.com and for every word you get right, they donate grains of rice.

Go visit today!

Is that a light at the end of the tunnel?

Or is that an oncoming train?!

I'm going to go with the light theory.

My two classes are revving up for a couple of big finishes with projects this semester, and then there will be a few weeks of reprieve. I have been thinking a lot lately about stuff and thought I'd jot it all down.

I attended a web conference this week about Web 2.0 tools. We discussed social networking, social bookmarking, photo sharing, wikis, etc ... We watched this YouTube video and were asked for our reactions. One of the questions posed by a fellow classmate was

For good or ill, we surf, search, mine the Internet for information to increase our own knowledge, to make our lives better, to make ourselves richer. . . at what cost? We write, post, blog, respond, collaborate, live a virtual life via the Internet to communicate, to connect, to inform, to persuade . . . to what end?

I'm curious to know what others think?