The Second Easiest Contest on the Internet

It's been a long time since we held a contest, so it's high time for us to give away free stuff again. This time, it's three $15 Amazon.com gift certificates.

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Here's the deal: We like it when people go back through the archives and read material they may have missed the first time around, and we also like those old posts to be as polished and up-to-date as possible.

FACT: If you find something in one of our old posts that needs to be changed, we'll enter your name in the drawing for one of three $15 Amazon.com gift certificates.

Specifically, we are looking for the following:

- Broken hyperlinks
- Hyperlinks that totally link to the wrong place
- Embedded videos that no longer exist
- Typos (such as identifying the actor who played Iron Man as "Robert Downer, Jr."--that happened once)
- Major grammatical errors
- Internally inconsistent formatting within a post (we really don't care if it's "superhero" or "super-hero" as long as we pick one and stick with it for the whole post)
- Out-of-date information that, in the context of the post, should be updated for the sake of posterity/accuracy

*We reserve the right to tell you that the "error" you found totally doesn't count.

All you have to do is leave a comment with your name (if you're posting anonymously), the name of the post, and the error you found. If you find multiple errors, please post a new comment for each error. This will help us keep track of everything better.

YOU CAN ONLY WIN ONCE. There will be three different winners, regardless of how many or how few errors they've found. Clearly, more findings increase your chances of glorious victory.

Also, you may only include posts that were published before today. Alex and I often catch each other's mistakes the day a post goes up, and it's no fair if you beat the proofreader to the post.

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Okay, that's all the basic stuff. You can go ahead and take our challenge now. Or, if you want to dive into all the little details, keep reading.

Once the contest deadline arrives, we'll pick the winners by the dork equivalent of drawing names from a hat: each comment will be assigned a number, and we'll roll a die--whatever number comes up is the winner. We'll do this three times, and we'll re-roll if it's a number that's already come up.

Please note: If you point out an error that someone else has already identified, we'll just ignore it, so kindly pay attention to what's already been mentioned. Just to be perfectly clear, you can enter this contest as many times as you like, provided you've got a different error to share with us each time.

Confused about where to start? Check out the sidebar. There's a search function if you've thought of an error you've already seen; the blog archive is easily accessible so you can jump to a specific month or year; there's even a list of posts by topic if you're more interested in looking back through specific kinds of posts for errors. Our Month in Review posts can be invaluable here.

Don't just go back for the errors; go back to catch up on the posts you've missed, or to be pleasantly reminded of the posts you've forgotten. The contest is open!

EXTENDED CONTEST DEADLINE: Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 11:59 PM Eastern US time. (Extended from Tuesday the 24th!) Winners will be announced on August 27th, and if we announce your name, it's up to you to provide us with an e-mail address so we can send you a gift certificate. So, don't just read the old stuff--keep up with the new stuff, too!