Cryptovalley http://cat.cryptovalley.com looks good, i mined for 30 minutes, it showed i got 400 valid shares. but just now finally got .5 of a confirmed block.  I did notice that this pool requires 120 confirms so I believe thats why im just getting confirmed blocks now.

I joined a new pool the other day called [Suspicious link removed] they just mine whatever coin has the least difficulty, then it will auto-transfer into Bitcoins if you'd like it to.  So lately they've been mostly mining TAG coin, Worldcoin and MEC coin.  I disabled the auto transfer to Bitcoin I'd rather just have these alt coin currencies for now I think they have a better chance of increasing value significantly.

I usually just use windows calculator (start-accessories-calculator) to figure out what its worth, i suppose this is probably most useful with alternate currencies.  Just take the value and multiply by the approximate BTC value right now its around 430 to find what its worth in USD.