For all of you out there asking "what's the best microcontroller to ...": Have a look at this survey of 1$ microcontrollers from a professiknal's point of view.
My experience is that the ressources section is, als, not visited very frequently.
Let's see what further comments pop up. There's always the possibility of making a thread sticky so it will pop up on top of the list of threads. Although this shoul dbe used with care unless the list becomes clogged by sticky threads.