Podstar runner: Finally, there’s a purpose to owning one of them iPod things, other than causing your own chronic and eventual hearing loss. The Bros. Chaps, the creative supergroup behind Homestar Runner and his crew of endearing misfits, are making vintage Strong Bad e-mails available in an iPod-friendly video format. For free! Grrrroannncchhhhh! That’s the sound of a paradigm shifting into high gear for indie video media. Get your puppet jam on at http://podstar.homestarrunner.com.

Sacrilicious: All you religious types out there want to get the good lord’s spirit inside you, right? Well what if there was a more direct path to earthly and heavenly salvation, ideally by way of chocolate? What? There is? Chocolate Deities will make you a cocoatastic replica of the god of your choice, perfect for worship or snacktime, shipped to your home for a reasonable price—options include Buddha, Ganesh or the Sacred Heart of Jesus. More like the Sacred Heart of Deeelicious at www.chocolatedeities.com.

Comments? Michael Citrome