Read up on movies coming out in 2008. Most I’ve never heard of, but a few do sound promising.

This list compiles choices for “he 10 Most Irritatingly Impossible Old-School Video Games”. Having Friday the 13th on there made it for me.

My brilliant plan is to quit my job and find myself a sugar mommy (sister site). I would not be mentioning this or even know of this site if it were not for NPR’s Marketplace. Classic!

Like Alluc.org and similar sites, this one also aggregates online video, but with several useful filters

If you bought an iPhone and hate AT&T, go back your old cellphone and use the iPhone soley as an iPod and for WiFi.

The Vanity Fair article “Simpson Family Values” has quotes from pretty much anyone ever involved on the show. An interesting read, even if you think the show’s sucked since season 9.

If anyone can point to a better Flash firework display app., please do. The only remotely decent one I can find is still this one from 2002. (I did visit Fireworks.com, but I just can’t get into their displays.

If you’re looking for an offbeat comic to read today, you could do much worse than The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. He’s a ninja AND a Doctor.

If you have an Xbox 360 and are curious about Pac-Man CE, it’s amazingly addictive.

if you enjoy Pandora and the (recently) CBS-acquired Last.Fm, check out Spool! (not to be confused with Spoon!)

Just came across Slacker too.

Do you reminisce about old-school table-top arcade games? Dig the movie “Minority Report”’s Techie scenes? Have easy access to $5000 and $10,000? Microsoft’s new ’surface’ PC will satisfy your needs when it’s released this winter. Reminds me of NYU’s Jeff Han’s similar project. If you’re in NYC on June 9, go to the Sheraton NY Hotel and Towers for a public viewing of SURFACE. The Seattle PI has videos not shown on the MS site.

I assume those who don’t get UK-BBC will have the chance to see BBC’s Panaorama’s “Scientology And Me” (Mon 14 May, 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm; you see can see their latest shows here) online.

In the meantime, catch the segment reporter hard at work and the same reporter chatting with a church spokesman.

The Chaser (Australia’s version of The Onion) made the news twice last week with their TV show:

An Australian kid duped Youtube into removing Chaser clips and one of the Chaser hosts got close to Hillary Clinton.

Here’s one of their skits goofing on the words ‘Al-Qaeda’ and ‘terrorist’ and here is Hillary Clinton on the Chaser:

If you’re a LOST fan, check out this podcast from WBUR’s “On Point”

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Did you know Estus Pirkle (he of the “Communism Is Good” samples that Negativland loved to use) was involved in films? “If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?” is particularly amazing. Remember, dancing is evil and communists are taking over!

Skooldays may be a retro site that’s a little hard to navigate but they have a page on the Little Professor Calculator that I owned as a kid so I give thim the thumbs up.

In my search for interesting podcasts (a hard thing to find it seems), I’ve recently found a good resource of public radio podcasts.

Put the iPod Vibrator on your gift list for the person who has everything:iBuzz 2 (huh, I guess I missed out on the first one). If the video below is not working try here.

There are some good videos in this top 50 of 2006 list, although I had only heard 3 or so of the songs before now. They have The Horrors clip there so I’m happy.

Fimoculous gives his picks for the “Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading”.