Reader A. Hildebrandt writes:
On Black Friday, Amazon.com held a raffle of sorts. Essentially, they had several awesome items at insane prices, and people were randomly selected to get these details. One of these items was a really nice laptop, regularly $1000, discounted to $300 for 250 lucky people. I was not one of those lucky people. That didn't stop me from winning in my own sort of way.

While these crazy sales were going on, quite a few people started donning tinfoil hats. Very, very few people got a shot at these details. So few, in fact, that people start wondering out loud if the prizes were being awarded at all. Finally, people started crying about how the prizes were _obviously_ being snatched up by Amazon employees, since their best friend totally voted and didn't win anything. The forum was quickly flooded with angry customers demanding apologies, compensation... I think one person even was talking about a class action lawsuit. That's what I love about the internet -- low on rationality and high on hilarity.

I thought I'd add my voice to the party, in a post entitled "OH NO I DIDN'T WIN A LAPTOP." You can read Mr. Hildebrandt's post as well as the replies it prompted,