I noticed every once in a while (like the last block) there will be almost 10BTC worth of transfer fees! I think it's awesome but does anyone know why that happens? a typo when someone did a transfer? or are people just being very nice to miners

The transaction that really fattened up that block was this one:
http://blockchain.info/tx/4b596c0fde12b98bad2cc8bb8d5b985ab3fdd7b986c49b231d85d7751dad4b40It had a 9 BTC transaction fee associated with it.