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DailyDirt: You Have Won Second Prize In A Beauty Contest! Collect $10.
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There are a lot of online contests, sponsored by all sorts of organizations (usually non-profits). Some of the contests are challenging, and others are just a little strange. Here are some examples that caught our eye.
- A professor of cybernetics promotes the Google Science Fair by encouraging kids to explore and experiment.. and by telling students that one of his own projects involves putting human brain neurons into robot bodies. Great, now kids everywhere are wondering how to scrape brain cells out of their younger siblings. [url]
- Play matchmaker for a guy named Chas... and get a chance at winning $10,000. If Chas marries the girl you recommend for him, collect the money -- or cut out the middlemen, ladies. [url]
- PETA has a $1 million prize for anyone who can sell the first in vitro chicken in "commercial quantities" by June 30, 2012. The lab-grown meat also has to pass a taste test from a panel of PETA judges -- hmm, but how do those judges know if it tastes authentic? [url]
- To discover more interesting stuff from non-profit organizations, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Not if you lack flash.
PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals, right?
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I just hope the taste test doesn't mean they're comparing the candidates to whatever chicken they ate that made them go vegetarian.
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What I wouldn't pay to see his face right now and ask if he is that sure today.
But I feel sorry for all those people who were mandated to upgrade their chicken production facilities to standards that made them slaves of banks.
In the modern world here is a tip, never ever get in debt, you will pay dearly for that mistake.
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Peta
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Plain and simple the reason most vegetarians I've met decided to become vegetarians is that they want to cause the least amount of harm they can. As humans we are uniquely in a position that many of us actually can make a choice in what we eat. Through one choice we could effectively slow global warming (meat farms are one of the highest greenhouse gas producers), we can lessen the amount of pain we cause others on the planet and improve our health if you eat properly (though I'm not exactly the thinnest guy in the area). It's not the right choice for everyone, but even if you chose to have one vegetarian meal a week, say plain pizza, it would be like taking half a million cars off the road.
If something like that isn't for you make sure you hold your meat producers accountable for poisoning the environment(I wish this was hyperbole)Swine farmers and chicken farmers are notorious for how badly they treat the environment causing huge fish kills in the Mississippi river delta and causing algae blooms that kill off other ocean life, some of which is foodstuff, which in turn raises the price of that seafood.
Didn't mean to make that sound preachy, just sharing the reasons I chose to become vegetarian. So basically it all comes down to the same question, what choices are you willing and able to make to provide a better planet for the next generation. Any choices you make are ultimately yours make the choices you're able to live with.
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I can see it now...
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I'm not a vegetarian but I'm friends with a few (and related to one) and haven't run into the preachiness that often gets attributed to them, for whatever that's worth.
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In vitro chicken. . . .
HM
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Stop PETA Now!
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I was liking the sound of it too but another of their conditions also makes me quite dubious about their honesty:
It would seem likely that a company would have to be quite some size to be selling in 10 states. They'd also likely be making 10's or even 100's of millions a year competing on an ethics standpoint (ie to vegetarians etc) without being able to "sell it at a competitive price" compared to "real" meat. And this needs to happen in 2 years to qualify for the award???
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Not a lot of other special interest groups are this ridiculous: http://features.peta.org/PETASeaKittens/ .
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Gameful.org
http://gameful.org/
Gameful Challenge #2: OPERATION: END BOREDOM
Take a look at the newest Gameful challenge! The goal? Design a game that makes a boring job more challenging for the worker while producing better results for the business and/or its
customers.
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Re: In vitro chicken. . . .
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Re: Gameful.org
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Though I must say the newsletter segway stuck me as an attempt at sarcasm so if there's anything not covered here Feel free to ask away.
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I feel like I lose brain cells every time I see these techdirt ad pages. How about better content and less ads?
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