Yes, I am currantly dunking my players head first into boiling oil because one of them took my tin hat, and now the overlords are frying my brain cells. you?
He's talking about the "Ceramic DM" contest, palleo. It's a contest where a judge provides a series of images, and the contestants write a story that include them, and then they get judged.
In the General forum, here. "Alsih2o" started it, and it's been going at a good clip ever since. Never see any more "Iron DM" contests, though - this one jsut caught on better.
IIRC, the Iron DM contest has been moved to the Rat bastard boards... it's a contest where you had to make an adventure out of 3-5 ingredients in 24 hours. Nine hells of hard.