  I just ordered the Sports Night DVDs with a gift certificate to Barns & Noble I got for Christmas. I broke down and bought it after I couldn't find it anywhere on Direct Connect or Bittorrent. It's a sad, sad world when a show that good goes unappreciated by the pirate community.
You know, gift certificates are an ingenius idea for businesses. First of all, they get the money up front. Ain't nothing to complain about there- it's a guaruntee that it'll be spent there. But the real genius is that in order to spend the entire thing, you have to get something that costs more than the certificate is worth, or else you waste some money.
So unless you manage to find something that's the exact correct price, you're either going to spend more than the certificate's worth, which is just more money for the business, or else you spend less than it's worth and you essentially overpay for what you did get. Devious, just devious. In my case, I ended up paying $14 more than my certificate was worth. And had I not had that certificate, I would have gone to Amazon.com which is selling the Sports Night DVDs for $45 instead of the $54 I paid at Barns & Noble.
Oh well, if my money and I weren't soon parted they'd have to change that expression. By the way, I SUCK at chess now. I haven't played in years, and I'm just getting massacred in like 15 moves by every little free 250K chess program I download. 
