I’m Gonna Burn
Alas, all those years of heeding the warnings on those Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden songs they made me listen to in Bible school have been in vain. Via Matthew Hoy and Q&O, it seems the Number of the Beast is 616, not 666. The professor who discovered this, Ellen Aitken, argues that it was not a future prediction but a coded reference to Nero, which I installed about a month ago. I thought it was a little strange when the EULA said it would permanently imprint the number 616 on my forehead, but I didn’t worry too much since most other EULAs are just as bad, and in any event the number wasn’t 666. I figured they wanted me to have the area code handy if I ever needed to call their tech support people in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Oops.
UPDATE: Looks like I’ll have plenty of company, though.
