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#928 Mimic Octopus Even if the dictionaries are starting to give in, I refuse to accept 'octopi' as a word mainly because--I'm not making this up--there's a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Scott Card horror novel 'Lost Boys' which hinges on it being an incorrect pluralization.
#929 Speculation 'I was pretty good at skeet shooting, but was eventually kicked off the range for catching the clay pigeons in a net and dispatching them execution-style.'
#930 Days of the Week Not pictured: the elongated Halley's-Comet-like orbit of every Rebecca Black lyric.
#931 Lanes Each quarter of the lanes from left to right correspond loosely to breast cancer stages one through four (at diagnosis).
#932 CIA It was their main recruiting poster, hung nearly ten feet up a wall! This means the hackers have LADDER technology! Are we headed for a future where everyone has to pay $50 for one of those locked plexiglass poster covers? More after the break ...
#933 Tattoo I calculate that the electrons in radiation therapy hit you at 99.8% of the speed of light, and the beam used in a 90-second gamma ray therapy session could, if fired with less precision, kill a horse (they did not let me test this).
#934 Mac/PC It's fun to watch browsers fumblingly recapitulate the history of window management. Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension.
#935 Missed Connections The Street View van isn't going to find out anything Google won't already know from reading my email.
#936 Password Strength To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.
#937 TornadoGuard The bug report was marked 'could not reproduce'.
#938 T-Cells 'We're not sure how to wipe out the chimeral T-cells after they've destroyed the cancer. Though I do have this vial of smallpox ...'
#939 Arrow 'The Return of the Boomerang' would make a great movie title.
#940 Oversight I felt so clever when I found a way to game the Fitocracy system by incorporating a set of easy but high-scoring activities into my regular schedule. Took me a bit to realize I'd been tricked into setting up a daily exercise routine.
#941 Depth Perception I've looked at clouds from both sides now.
#942 Juggling Later: 'Why is there a book hovering over the trash can?'
#943 Empirical I'm as surprised as you!
#944 Hurricane Names After exhausting the OED, we started numbering them. When overlapping hurricanes formed at all points on the Earth's surface, and our scheme was foiled by Cantor diagonalization, we just decided to name them all "Steve". Your local forecast tomorrow is "Steve". Good luck.
#945 I'm Sorry You know I've always hated her.
#946 Family Decals My decal set has no adults, just a sea of hundreds of the little girl figures closing in around a single cat.
#947 Investing But Einstein said it was the most powerful force in the universe, and I take all my investment advice from flippant remarks by theoretical physicists making small talk at parties.
#948 AI And they both react poorly to showers.
#949 File Transfer Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.
#950 Mystery Solved The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union--he just started going by 'James'.
#951 Working And if you drive a typical car more than a mile out of your way for each penny you save on the per-gallon price, it doesn't matter how worthless your time is to you--the gas to get you there and back costs more than you save.
#952 Stud Finder According to every stud finder I've tried to use, my walls contain a rapidly shifting network of hundreds and hundreds of studs.
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