6/6/6 – A Devil of a Day

If you've ever thought twice about venturing out of your home on Friday the 13th, perhaps you'll just want to stay in today. That's right, today is June 6, 2006, or 6.6.6 for you short-hand folks. It's a date that only comes around once every hundred years and it has more than a few people worked up. As we reported a few days ago, many pregnant women are trying to avoid giving birth on this day; some theorists have used numerology to predict another terrorist attack on the United States on 6.6.6.; and even some people believe 6.6.6 is a romantic number and have decided to schedule their weddings for this day. Even book publishers and Hollywood have jumped on board the 6.6.6. craze scheduling religious books and horror films for release today. It's 6.6.6. mania out there, so be careful. Full Story

Other places you'll see 666 on your computer: The first Apple Computer, the Apple 1 was sold for $666.66. The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is "waw" (or "vav"). This is the closest approximation of the English letter "w". Thus the ubiquitous acronym "www" could be the 666. And finally, and most popular among conspiracy theorists that think Bill Gates is the anti-Christ, Microsoft had the IP 66.6.66.6 for a NT workstation until recently.

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