I've been in that situation before. One thing that you can try is find a cool API and make a tool that uses it. http://www.programmableweb.com/ http://www.prog

I've been in that situation before. One thing that you can try is find a cool API and make a tool that uses it. http://www.programmableweb.com/ http://www.programmableweb.com/ is a great place to search for APIs. A few ideas: * Command line client for the Indeed job search engine. Maybe make it similar to the top command? (http://www.indeed.com/jsp/apiinfo.jsp http://www.indeed.com/jsp/apiinfo.jsp) * Find a recipe, using what you have in your pantry, by using the BigOven API. Perhaps make a way to catalog your food? (http://api.bigoven.com/ http://api.bigoven.com/) * You can find plenty of location data with the SimpleGeo api if that's what you're interested in (https://simplegeo.zendesk.com/entries/209068-python-tutorial https://simplegeo.zendesk.com/entries/209068-python-tutorial) * Make your computer talk to you a new notification, email, tweet, tell you the weather, etc. There are some software libraries you can download for this, and some online services you can check out as well (e.g. http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello) You could also hook it up with Notifio (https://api.notifo.com/ https://api.notifo.com/) to speak when you get a reply on HN or a notification on some other website. Hope that helps. Good luck and have fun!