Play a game online and fight hunger

Forget about Minesweeper -- this is a much better way to waste time at work, and it helps fight hunger at the same time. FreeRice.com is a multiple-choice game that tests your vocabulary. For each right answer you get, the site's corporate sponsors donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme. You may be thinking, "Twenty grains? Big deal." Well, in just five minutes of playing, I donated 500 grains of rice. That's somebody's dinner right there.

FreeRice is a partner site to Poverty.com, which was started by John Breen, an Indiana computer programmer. Since the site started in October 2007, thousands of people have chipped in to learn new words...and feed two million people. This is, needless to say, all kinds of awesome.

So close out the Solitare program and dial up FreeRice.com. It's better for your vocabulary, and you'll be helping to feed the hungry around the world. And if vocab isn't your strong suit, click "Options" on the toolbar on the top of the FreeRice page to play games based on art, foreign languages, math and even chemistry.