My hovercraft is full of eels

This morning, my brother was sitting at his laptop attempting to get FreeBSD to mount a ReiserFS partition without much success—some permissions problem that means he can mount it as root but not from fstab—when his girlfriend sat down beside him, peered over, and asked "What's that weird devil number?" Naturally we both had a little WTF moment. "See", she continued, "it's even called devil!"

On closer inspection, it seems the file permissions for /dev are, understandably, 666. Riiiiiigghhht!