You can win equally twisted and "valuable" prizes by contributing your knowledge and experience to the development community. A new contest will begin each month.Yes, one of these prizes can be yours simply by contributing to the development community. You can also see how your fellow IT Professionals are doing in the current contest by checking the top point earners .
I managed a prize in the Jan 2008 contest: http://www.community-credit.com/CommunityCreditPrizePage.aspx