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(See also: Only In Ithaca #1 and #2)
A few days ago, Katie and I were at CTB over at Triphammer Mall grabbing a bite. When we get back out to our car, we’re just about to pull out, when we notice something rather peculiar.
Off to our left, there is a blue van. We recognize this van, and the woman in it, as someone from our complex.
She is sitting in her car, with a can of whipped cream. She is squirting the whipped cream onto her finger, and then placing the finger in her mouth to eat the whipped cream.
Keep in mind: it’s 85 degrees at this point in the day. Her car is not running, as far as we can tell. Her windows are up.
Also keep in mind: There is no grocery store in Triphammer Mall. This means she has *brought* the whipped cream can from another location, to this particular parking lot, to eat it.
My life is rapidly turning into Ghost World.

If there’s one thing that drives OS X users mad, it’s the wait cursor when an app stalls. A spinning multi-colored disc will appear whenever you mouse over a stalled/heavy processed window.
However, there’s never been any consensus as to what the official name for this cursor is. I’ve most often heard it referred to as “the beach ball”, but I’ve seen a lot of people use other random names for it.
I’m happy to report that if nothing else, Panther clears up this ambiguity that has been tearing the Apple community apart at the seams. There is an app in the Developers Tools with 7B21 entitled “Spin Control” (although the About Box also calls it “Spin Doctor”), and the About Box reads partly as follows:

Death to the beach ball. Long live the Spinning Pizza of Death!