I love 'The Strip' from The New York Times Sunday Review. This edition lampoons CES. Brian McFadden is a brilliant cartoonist, illustrator, and jokesmith. 

I once bought a laptop from a guy who approached me in the parking lot of the Stonestown Galeria Mall in San Francisco. I immediately went home and opened the box to find --- a brick. Literally. I held on to that brick for a long time as a reminder that you don't get something for nothing.