Since we have to lead with anything Journey here at SFist, check out the YouTube clip of the ad for Atari's "Journey Escape" we found on Kotaku. Avoiding (pixelated representations of) crazed fans and manipulative music industry types never looked so fun! Buy it now! If espionage is more your game, then the cloak-and-dagger shenanigans at HP should be up your alley. Even reporters were entangled in the web of lives spun to discredit a board member who once wed John Traina's sloppy seconds ex-wife Danielle Steele.

Kevin Rose's Diggnation seems about as stable as Mexico following revelations that organized squads have schemed to systematically skew the fortunes of certain stories. Kevin's promise to tweak the algorithms didn't satisfy at least one top user who promises to quit. Guess you can't count on free labor, even if - like Principal Skinner suggests - you "make it a game."

With Steve Jobs on the Disney Board, Apple's "It's Showtime" press release means Disney movie downloads through iTunes is presumably a given, but what about the iPhone? And while movie downloads are cool, where were the college lecture podcasts when we were still in school? Would have saved us a lot of heartache and commutes on the F train.

In brief, social search software Wink launched their latest version and features, Six Apart spends some of their actual cash profits to purchase feed parsers Rojo, and Microsoft AdCenter says they can profile web surfers so well, they can tell if you're pregnant (so, so creepy). And presidential hopeful Mark Warner was caught campaigning in Second Life, succeeding only in making candidates on MTV's Rock the Vote debates look stylish and comfortable by comparison.