Posts Tagged ‘rice’

UK Supermarkets Are Rationing Rice Supplies

Monday, June 2, 2008 21:45 No Comments

Panic and mass hysteria have caused UK supermarkets to rationing rice supplies. Customers feared of a global rice shortage and rushed to buy as much as possible.
Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and many more have placed rationing quotas on rice hoping to control the citation. The panic has started since the price of rice increased 70% [...]

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500,000,000 Firefox Downloads Earns Rice!

Saturday, February 23, 2008 16:49 2 Comments

The Mozilla community (ie Firefox), celebrated yesterday the 500,000,000 downloads of Firefox with a very original way. Their aim was to play at Freerice.com (a page where you play for free and give away grains of rice to people that need food) and gather 500,000,000 grains of rice.
From what I see Freerice’s daily rice grain [...]

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A bag of rice with your kid’s photo

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 19:00 No Comments

Japanese have now a new way to share the joy of they kid’s first day in the world. You can now send to your friends and relatives a bag of rice with your kids picture on it so that they can too hold it as you hold your child. After people are bored of holding [...]

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