A friend of mine from college has fighting lymphoma for awhile now. This past November, our college alumni helped sponsor a bone marrow match drive and partnered with Be the Match to help make it a success.

They planned the drive to happen during Homecoming weekend at our college. They were told to be happy if they had 100+ people register and test to be a match, they had almost 500 participate!

The other night my family and I were watching an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on ABC and they also partnered with Be the Match to help find and register donors out of their huge army of volunteers.

If you’d like to have the opportunity and the honor of saving someone’s life, visit the Be the Match website and read about what all is involved in making this difference in someone’s life. Don’t stop there though, be sure and register to be a donor.

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Tonight I found out about a new website called KidsMealDeals.com where you can enter your zip code, a mileage radius and what day of the week you’re looking for and will return a list of restaurants with deals for kids.

The options for us tonight consisted of Golden Corral, which is not my wife’s favorite place to go by any means. If we were going out tomorrow night and looking for a deal, I’d know we could go to Denny’s and get two free kids meals with each adult entree purchase.

The KidsMealDeals.com website helps you find the best places to make your dollar go further when you just don’t feel like cooking something at home.

Soon the KidsMealDeals.com website will also allow you to pick the type of cuisine you’re interested in eating. Not sure about you, but I’m still trying to get my kids to try more Thai, Indian and Greek food. Right now I just need to make sure wherever we go has chicken tenders.

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If you’re not familiar with what happens, you upload a picture of yourself and some friends and embed their images on some dancing, animated characters on the card. They usually dance and sing and it’s all around a good time to be had by all.

When you watch these cards, you can’t help but bring a little smile to yourself because let’s face it. Anything dancing, dressed up in Christmas cheer and a face that looks like you or your friends has got to be funny! If you disagree, well Bah-Humbug to YOU Mr. Scrooge!

One of its latest cards is Christmas With The Stars. Appropriately imitating and spoofing Hollywood icons and legends, this animated card allows you to transform you and your friends into dancing celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Bob Marley.

Another is the techno-inspired Dancing Christmas Toys. This card is set up in a Santa’s workshop where familiar entertainment figures are showcased and spoofed. The user will get the chance to be Captain Jack Sparrow, Betty Boop, Wonder Woman, Spiderman or Anakin Skywalker after uploading his/her photo.

Last one is the Wild West Christmas. Having the Great Plains as a backdrop, the user can have a lot fun having his/her headshot placed on dancing cowboy or cowgirl to the tune of a very funky music.

How can you go wrong with a line-up like that? So go on! Get moving and start bringing some holiday cheer to your friends! It’s all waiting to be uncovered and delivered at CardFunk.com

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The Cellfire website brings that pin-point item selection right to you. What’s nice is they deliver those coupons to you in a way that’s probably as convenient as possible and something you’ve already got with you at the store: your cell phone and a store savings card.

Cellfire is the premier destination for valuable savings on groceries, shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. Get access and use offers from your PC and/or mobile phone. This service is provided free of charge to all users.* Our retail partners sponsor the offers and discounts — at no cost or obligation to you. With Cellfire, you’ll never have to print, clip, or forget your coupons again!

The method I’m most interested in is the ability to store coupons right on my grocery savings card. No need to carry anything extra around with me or remember to bring the coupon into the store with me.

Start uncovering some free money in your grocery list today with Cellfire.

Thanks to Nickilaycoax on twitter for the link

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The other benefit of Springpad is that it harnesses the power of the social networking world and allows you to interact with and share your collections of data with those that are important to you too.

I would say the power of Springpad doesn’t rely in it’s ability to collect your information though, it’s more powerful in the way it allows you to organize, share and complement what you’ve saved with other important information that’s related. This is the part of Springpad that impresses me and is both most helpful to me.

For example, I can save restaurants to my Springpad collection and there are integrated links for making reservations at that restaurant with OpenTable if available and restaurant reviews from Yelp as well.

For homemakers you can quickly and easily make meal-planning tasks as you go about your day, collect recipes, ask friends for cooking information and then allow Springpad to help build your shopping list automatically.

Springpad integrates with Gmail (for synching your contacts and Google calendar events), flickr for sharing and organizing your thoughts with or related to photos, Facebook to help you share information with your Facebook friends and of course with twitter so you can share links and have alarms and reminders sent to your own account.

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My wife and I are both on Facebook (she’s probably more active on it than I am) and I’m on twitter quite a bit. We have two kids and our oldest is always looking over our shoulder to see what we’re saying. Both sets of our parents are also on Facebook as well and sometimes it’s kind of a challenge to remember that and think about what you’re posting. It’s not that there’s anything we’re trying to hide, most of the time it’s just trying to avoid the trouble of explaining something.

Now there’s a website where you can share your own challenges of having your parents and other family members on Facebook reading your updates.

Visit Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook to see how sometimes your updates are read and interpreted the wrong way and then let the discussion and explanation begin.

Many of the stories are funny because they probably hit a little too close to home for most of us. Yet there are others where I read them and I’m very thankful my parents aren’t as bad as that person’s.

Are your parents on Facebook? Have a story to share? Visit Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook and let’s share in each other’s misery and family dysfunctionality.

And if you haven’t seen it, here’s the Verizon commercial.

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10-year old Dalton Sherman spoke to the a back-to-school kick-off event for the Dallas Independent School District in Texas. His speech is an inspiration to teachers, or should be and it should also remind us all of the inherent value in each child that steps into the schools every day along with our own children.

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Turns out I haven’t beaten him yet.

The website he uncovered and I’ve been sucked into tonight is Ninja Kiwi. There are a variety of games available, but the one I’ve been absorbed with is some kind of balloon pop game. Various strategies and obstacles make each stage a little different and more challenging.

Turns out I still haven’t beaten my son. He made it through all 50 stages. I’m stuck on stage 49. I’ve done most of the stages faster that my son, but I CANNOT GET PAST these two stages.

If you’re looking for a fun little game you can challenge your kids to, go visit the Ninja Kiwi website and find a game you’ll enjoy. But I’ll warn you! Be careful. You just might lose a few hours of your evening you need to spend on something else.

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The E-mealz website helps you take most of the time and hassle out of planning your meals for your family each week. The founders of E-mealz, Jenny Cochran and Jane DeLaney, started the E-mealz site to achieve a few goals for themselves and for busy moms and frugal family cooks everwhere:

1. Spend more time with your family
2. Save time and money
3. Serve delicious food
4. Save yourself from multiple and last minute trips to the store
5. Stare at your children instead of at the pantry wondering what’s for dinner
6. Lose weight and provide a healthy meal for every member of the family

My wife has already been taking advantage of doing monthly cooking with a few friends of hers and it’s been a great advantage. I’m sure combining that with what the E-mealz site will help us save even more time and money.

Uncover how easy meal planning can be with E-mealz

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The Goby website has brought Web 2.0 to choosing your own adventure.

The interface is simple to use, you just put in a keyword of what you want to do, where you want to do it and when you’d like it to happen. Clicking on "Search" then provides you a list of opportunities in your area to take advantage of your request.

The display you receive is a nicely arranged and organized list of possible matches, and from my own search, very accurate matches of my desired results. Provided with a map of the area used in your request and links to more information and the source website.

So, the next time you’re bored and looking for something to do in your city, or perhaps if you’re visiting a new city and looking for an event or activity to fill some time between business meetings or other responsibilities. Go uncover something to do with Goby.

Uncover some fun for your and your family with the Goby website

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