Hasta La Gadget!

If you’re running out of ideas for fun stuff to do with your family, then you might want to look to Feelday for some help. It’s touted as a “discovery guide for playful families” that provides suggestions for a variety of activities that every member of your family will enjoy.

Families can discover new activities “on the fly” and filter their finds according to their moods, schedules, ages, weather, and price. When you first visit the site, you’re prompted to key in your family’s mood, the date when you’d want to go on your next family outing, and your zip code. Feelday will then provide you with some activities scheduled near your area.

Our mission is simple: We help families find great local activities that are right for them. We help families get off of the couch and into the real world.

Feelday is currently available for families living in New York City, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, and Houston, and has a fairly limited number of activities in its database. If you live within these areas, give the service a try and let us know what your experience was like.

[via SwissMiss via Laughing Squid]

Before the advent of modern handheld gaming, some of us had to find ways to entertain ourselves on the train ride to work. One popular pastime was to see how quickly you could stop the timer on your digital watch. While most of us no longer wear a digital watch, there’s still a way to relive the glory days of this primitive digital sport.

Yes, you can now play the Digital Watch Game from the convenience of your web browser, complete with Casio LCD chronograph. If nothing else, check it out for the Digital Watch Game theme song!

Just head on over to UsVsThem and get ready with your mouse button. Now, how do I strap this to my wrist?

[via Kottke via Doobybrain]

Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro said that he wanted the robots to be unique. Apparently that also applies to their names. How else do you explain monikers like Gipsy Danger and Striker Eureka? And now we have 4th String Jaegers:

4th String Jaegers is a single purpose blog. Its contributors use the Jaeger Designer web app that Warner Bros. made to promote the movie to create hilarious posters featuring their own ideas for Jaeger names. Some of them bring countries to the mix to make puns, while others go off on another tangent and replace the names with funny captions instead. Sadly some of them use offensive language, so the blog isn’t safe for kids.

4th String Jaegers accepts contributions from anyone, and the Jaeger Designer is still online. Make your own 4th String Jaeger and cancel the apocalypse! Or just delay its flight! There is a Jaeger named Caramel Fluffybutt, your argument is invalid!

[via I Heart Chaos]

Stanley Kubrick’s take on Stephen King’s The Shining is all an all-around creepfest. And one of the more unsettling scenes is when the "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" manuscript is finally revealed. Fueled by a slow descent into insanity it took Jack weeks to write, but thanks to the Shine-O-Matic, you can make your own in just a few seconds.

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Think you’ve got what it takes to be (insert your country of origin here)’s top chef? You might not have your own cooking show or the chance to join some cooking competition, but you can serve people with your signature dishes and earn points (and even cash) while you’re at it.

This is only made possible by Mealku, a homemade meal cooperative.

Mealku operates from NYC but according to their website, the concept can be “introduced wherever people gather.” So here’s how it works: you post meals to earn Ku points, and you order meals to spend Ku points. Accumulate a hundred Ku or more in a month and you get $30 cash back. Each 250 Ku and you get $100 back. There are a bunch of other ways to earn Ku, like reviewing dishes and referring other people to the site. In terms of the meals, Mealku takes care of picking up the food containers and delivering them to other members of the co-op. In addition, Mealku reviews home cooks for cleanliness and proper food sanitation before allowing them into the cooperative.

You might not turn in a hefty profit after all that cooking, but think of it as a reimbursement for the ingredients that you used to put together meals that probably made other people’s day.

Interested? You can head on over to Mealku.com for more information.

[via Laughing Squid]