How to spend $120,483,800 wisely

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"Google’s Pac-Man Logo Costs Society $120,483,800 in Productivity

We joked last week when Google changed its logo to a playable game of Pac-Man that the world’s collective productivity would take a sharp plunge, but it turns out that’s exactly what happened.

The blog for time management tool RescueTime did the math and determined that Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 hours of time, or $120,483,800 in productivity.

The cost was determined by looking at how much time was spent on Google’s homepage the day the Pac-Man logo was up (48 seconds) versus the average amount of time spent on other days (11 seconds) and multiplied by the number of visitors to the site that day (503,703,000).

The cost seems like a bit of a stretch, though. RescueTime assumed that the average Google user makes $25 per hour; that’s considerably higher than median income in Internet-connected nations. Also, you probably can’t assume that everyone who visited the site Friday was on the clock at work.

If you haven’t wasted time at work playing Google Pac-Man already, you still have a chance to add to that lost productivity tally. Google has preserved the Pac-Man game logo at www.google.com/pacman (you can also download the game) even though the front page has returned to normal."

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What time is it? Banana time.

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Design your own Chiquita Banana sticker at www.eatachiquita.com. Play around on the new website, too.

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You Play = They Eat

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The Night Cafe was painted by... Franz Marc, Vincent van Gogh, Jean-Baptiste Perroneau or Georges Seurat? Get the answer right and rice is donated to the hungry by the World Food Programme.

Various subject tests allow site visitors to answer an endless series of multiple choice questions, and 10 grains of rice are donated for every correct answer.

Plus, it's a pretty sweet satisfication (or ego boost) when you make it to the 50th level in vocab.

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Group Art

Awesome social media game from Big Spaceship. Each picture is made up of drawings from three different people. One person creates the head, the second person creates the body (with only a hint of what the head looks like) and the third person creates the bottom (with only a hint of what the body looks like). Follow @corpsify on Twitter to find out the password, then start playing yourself. Misery loves company, so please let me know if Corpsify rejects your drawing, too.

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