There's a pyramid scheme in the works on the internet, and a *bunch* of Shackers picked up on it really quickly. You provide an email address for spam, take a "free" trial of something (such as AOL) or sell something on eBay, then make 5 people under you do the same, and bam - free iPod mini or 4th-gen 20GB iPod (the brand new one) for you.
We'll have a good indication early next week of how reliable this might be, but early research says yes, this might actually be legit. Aroon and I spent some time going through it last night, and we've created a strategy for getting through it quickly as possible. If everything works ideally, you can get through the system and snag a 4G iPod before it's time to move back to school.
I'm not enlisting everyone in doing this yet because if it's a BS offer (which is usually what happens in these situations), I don't want to drag everyone else into a lot of useless effort and even more spam. By Tuesday we should have that "early indication," so check back then.