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Minutes ago I just used what was left in my $50 gift card to buy diamonds. Diamonds is a currency that enables you to purchase items in a game called Empire Craft(http://ec.hithere.com). The exchange rate between American $ and diamonds is 1:10, which means one dollar for ten diamonds. I had experience with the diamond system before, but I have never used it myself.
I don't really feel that the money is wasted, because one reason why I made…
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Today, we witness the birth of a new generation of the world ecnomy. Today, the international currency named Fumofumofumoffu Credit is officially put into use around the wh*** world.
Fumofumofumoffu Credit is a new kind of currency, innovated by the gentleman named Bonta Kun. It is designed to be used in international trades, so people do not have worry about different currencies anymore.
Fumofumofumoffu Credit can be used by all…
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The best way I can think of is this:
Place a electricity-proof energy tank of the roof top, and plug a long copper bar onto it. When lightning strikes, the energy can somehow be "gathered" into the energy tank. Then we can connect out power devices to the energy tank just like we normally do. We can build a high tower specially for gathering lightings, because the higher it is, the more chance a lighting will struck. Then we can distribute the energy gathered to the…
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http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/dual-perspectives/2009/04/13/DIY-Currencies/
I find this article very interesting. It talked about currencies other than money.
"The idea is not as far-fetched as it may seem. Economists already have a term for this kind of community-specific money; they're called "complimentary currencies" and they naturally take root when conditions…
ContinueMy idea is fairly simple: make a computer game that involves a miniature of the earth.
The setting should resemble the earth before the starting of the industrial revolution. The players will be asked to participate in the possible outcomes of the world, which means they get to see how much water will be spent to do certain activities or jobs. The game interface will be a world map, on the side there will be a bar that represents the population and another bar representing the…
ContinueAshoke-watter innovation, as its name suggests, is a website working on solving the water crisis around the world. I find the website easy to understand so I decided to participate in its events. I subscribed myself to their newsletters, and I also applied to one of the volunteer oppotunity offered there: http://ashoka.org/volunteer/6684.
Basically what I have to do is organizing files and datas, making them into Excel doc**ents. I play…
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http://www.waterforpeople.org/programs/africa/rwanda.html
In Rwanda there has been contant troubles. Civil wars, genocides and stuff. The place happens to lack water too. waterforpeople.org is working on making such place get clean water and sanitation.
"Ground was broken in July 2009 to initiate work to serve 6,274 people in the suburbs of…
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