In going about getting an account, I suggest opening an OpedID account there and validating your e-mail, it does work (I got my account that way today :))

Okay, so how do you do that? I was wondering how people were getting randomly selected, and I assumed they were just randomly going through lj people. But SO many people on my flist had gotten them that I assumed they were doing something to enter themselves in some kind of drawing.

But I can't figure out how to open an OpenID account. Whenever I go there it says you can't do it until after April 30.