Wed, Oct 10, 2001 11:24PM -0600

So today is 10-10-01... 101001 (also known as 41 to you non-machines out there--I suppose we'll have to wait nine years until Deep Though finally finishes its calculations...). This is proof that we are living in the Information Age. Ordinary people (i.e., non-geek, non-nerd types) have been bringing up the fact that today's date looks like binary code. (And tomorrow, which by the way is exactly a month since the terrorist attacks, is 10-11-01... 101101, which is 45. What does it all mean? I'm sure it means absolutely nothing. And I don't know why no one mentioned 10-01-01... 100101... 37... Is there a pattern or what?)

Anyway, what I really wanted to share was how incredibly strange the Internet is making our world. Orwell must be rolling in his grave. Or maybe he's laughing his ass off.