Yesterday's Dinosaur Comics addressed our society's widespread inability to use the word "literally" correctly. Today, in an interview on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Hillary Clinton described America as being "literally over the oil barrel" with regard to our energy policy. Et tu, Hillary?
One easy way to make the world a better place is never to misuse the word "literally" again. If that proves too difficult, you can always play video games for charity. What? Huh?? Yeah!
FreeRice is a vocab-building game that will donate 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program every time you can pick the correct definition for a word. The difficulty level moves up and down based on your answers, and there's no limit to how much rice you can donate. Philanthropic logophiles rejoice!
What's that you say? Big words are for bookworms and college professors and Noah Webster? Perhaps you should try FreePoverty instead. The game lists off cities and landmarks from around the world and you have to mark their locations on a world map. The more accurate you are, the more clean water is donated to people living in extreme poverty. Do you know where the country of Moldova is? What about Namibia? Learn how bad your geography is with FreePoverty!
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For all interested parties: about 15 pictures from our last party can be viewed in the below slideshow. Everything labeled "vs. pinata" is a video; click on the thumbnails to see them.
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David Cross had a bit on his 2004 CD, 'Shut Up You Fucking Baby', about his hatred for the misuse of the word 'literally'. I guess it didn't have a large enough impact to quell the problem.
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