So much “Lost� news, so little time!

That’s why I decided to compile a list of fun facts that I came across online today – which shed more light on last night’s episode, as well as those to come.

First, I’m wild about the show, but I’d say I’m a casual fan. I don’t really have a theory about what the island is: I’m more along for the joyride. And I don’t overanalyze every single piece of information offered in each episode. (If you actually remember where Desmond’s former lover, Penny Widmore, lives in London, you’re a genius. Or you have too much time on your hands. You decide.)

So most of the time, I don’t catch the subtle clues slipped into each episode – which the “Lost� creators call “Easter eggs.� They’re incredibly interesting, and I’m amazed at the folks who have the patience to go back and slo-mo their TiVos to catch some of them.

Anyway, here are some of the “Easter eggs� from last night’s episode that I’ve gathered from various online sources devoted to the show. (The links below provide more info, if you’re interested.)

• The biomedical lab that’s trying to recruit Juliet is named Mittelos, which is an anagram for “Lost Time.�

There’s already a Web site reserved for the fictitious company—that’s gone in and out of service today. But this “Web site”:http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2007/02/anagram-and-new-site.html says fans have already hacked inside and discovered a video made of a little girl for “Auntie Julieâ€? (the daughter of Juliet’s sister ?). Then there’s a garbled message from what I think is a Hanso employee at the end.
Check it out: It’s totally freaky!

• Getting back to that anagram, time was apparently a theme of the night. “The book”:http://www.thetailsection.com/lost_spoilers/what_was_aldo_researching.php that the bunker guard, Aldo, is reading is Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time.â€? The chapter he’s reading is about black holes, which may bend time and space.

• Juliet tells Jack she’s been on the island for 3 years, 2 months and 23 days. Some “savvy fanatics”:http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2007/01/not-in-portland-detailed-episode-info.html figured out that means—according to the “Lostâ€? timeline – she arrived on the island somewhere close to 9/11.

• When Juliet visits her sick sister to give her another fertility shot, she flicks on a lamp on the night stand. You can see the “Dharma symbol”:http://www.buddytv.com/articles/lost/lost-not-in-portland-easter-eg-3805.aspx on the lamp.

• Karl is being held in room 23, and Juliet’s passcard to the biomedical lab is marked with A-4. Both are part of the show’s “mystery numbers”:http://thelostnumbers.blogspot.com/.

Next, I wanted to give everyone a heads up to this article from “Entertainment Weekly”:http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20010504,00.html. Producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof discuss a bunch of questions that have been driving fans nutty. Sounds like the rest of this season will answer a lot of them, including whether Jack and Claire are half-siblings. (They say that last one will be answered in the next six episodes.)

But one thing I found interesting is that Cuse and Lindelof say the Michael and Walt story will be revived – but probably not until Season 4.

Interesting because actor Harold Perrineau (Michael) just signed on to a “CBS pilot”:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003542711 called “Demons.â€? (Thanks to co-blogger Amy Vernon for this tip and others!)

I’d always thought that those two were long gone because of the real-life problem of having Malcolm David Kelley – who plays Walt – suddenly age a few years, when the castaways have only been on the island a few months.

I guess they could replace the actor, but that seems too soap opera-esque for “Lost.� But a lot could be explained by a space-time continuum … hmmm.

A lot to think about, right? So let me throw out an opinion that doesn’t require as much thought.

With all due respect to the New York Times – which has writers far cleverer than I – the TV critic should probably have to watch a show before she slams it.

Go “here and scroll”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/arts/television/07watc.html?ref=television to the correction at the end of the story to find out what I’m talking about…