CATCHY HEADLINE for a truly absurd topic:

Apocalypse tomorrow? 666 arrives

By Seth Borenstein
ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 5, 2006

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it mean our number is up?
There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year. OK, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

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What will people think of next?

David Meadows has pointed out that if we go with the manuscript variant "616" in Revelation 13:18, the big day ought to have been on June 1st. And that's just in the American system. In Britain it ought to have been January 6th. [British date now corrected, thanks to a note from Mark Goodacre.]