SomethingAwful is, hands-down, the best forum on the Internet. If you've got time, this is probably the quintessential SA drama, and it's epic in scope:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=1a3f8a1a28...

Also from SomethingAwful, though the original post is now archived, the P-P-P-Powerbook prank:

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

And, if your day hasn't been thoroughly wasted yet, this is my all-time favorite product of SA:

http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Animal%20Crossing/index.html

Agreed. Not seen the Animal Crossing LP's yet, but am a big fan of the raocow super mario ones where he plays insanely hard rom-hacks and just rambles and rambles :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UYFSvsN1CY&feature=chann...

From the P-P-P-Powerbook prank website:

3) Finally, and most disturbingly, Jeff was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again. All of his Web sites have come down, and he is nowhere to be found.

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I spent the last 6 hours reading about kswizzle. I'm angry at you and also grateful. Or perhaps I don't know how to feel.

I spent the last 3 hours. :)

Yup, SA is definitely the best. It's well moderated, tons of knowledgeable people there. Definitely worth the tenbux.

This forum isn't your personal advertising network, Lowtax.

If you're looking for a post that is more like an advertisement look here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=861731

Just because someone is spreading something be word of mouth doesn't mean that they are necessarily financially invested in the product they are promoting. People do promote products that they enjoy/find useful.