[phlakaton]

Add to that "Thang" by Martin Gardner (yes, that Martin Gardner, you Scientific American old-timers). I read it in an Isaac Asimov-curated short story collection once upon a time and it remains one of my favorite short-shorts.

[satori99]

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, is the short story that always comes to my mind when I think about this type of thing.