I didn't have a good 6/6/6 My pet bird that I had for 9years was mauled to death by my roomates dogs. The landlord apparently showed the house while we were gone and left the door open. It flew for some reason to the floor and the dogs got it.
And now a millipede with 666 legs found... link Rare Millipede Species Found in Calif. Click for Larger Image This photo released by the Department of Biology, East Carolina University, shows the dorsal side of a rare female millipede with 662 legs. A scientist found a rare species of millipede, last seen 80 years ago in central California, and has collected several of the inch-long bugs for study. This millipede has more than 600 legs, about twice the average millipede - despite the name which means "thousand-legged. (AP Photo/East Carolina University, Paul Marek) The world's leggiest creature is missing-in-action no more. A scientist found a rare species of millipede, last seen 80 years ago in central California, and has collected several of the inch-long bugs for study. This millipede has more than 600 legs, about twice the average millipede despite the name which means "thousand-legged." Of the estimated 10,000 species, only one, I. plenipes, comes close to living up to its name and thrives only in California. "This is a milestone find," said Richard Hoffman, a millipede expert at the Virginia Museum of Natural History who had no connection with the discovery. I. plenipes was first spied in 1926 in San Benito County, about 120 miles southeast of San Francisco, by a government scientist who counted up to a record 750 legs. But it wasn't seen again despite decades of searching by many scientists. Until last fall. A 28-year-old scientist from East Carolina University, Paul Marek, and his brother chanced upon it. They were exploring a lush valley of oak trees in San Benito County, known as a biodiversity hot spot. "I practically fell over when I found it. It was extremely exhilarating," said Marek, who published the discovery in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. Millipedes thrive around the world in temperate and tropical zones. They feed on plant material and tend to hide under moist soil, wood piles and rocks. Marek isn't giving the exact location of I. plenipes for fear of people disrupting the ecosystem. Over three days in the valley, he and his brother collected a dozen millipedes and painstakingly counted their legs under a microscope to confirm that they were part of the same species. Of those captured, the leggiest were the females, with 662 to 666 legs. The millipedes were brought back to Marek's lab in North Carolina where some were preserved for future DNA testing and others were shipped out to the Field Museum in Chicago for study. Darrell Ubick, an entomologist with the San Francisco-based California Academy of Sciences who unsuccessfully hunted for the millipede years ago, applauded the discovery. "By rediscovering it, we add more pieces of the puzzle to understanding it," he said.
Following up on this. 666 binds many Malaysian Chinese in marriage Despite unholy connotation to some, lucky day comes ‘once in a lifetime’ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13167779/ KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The number 666 may represent the mark of the devil, but it was a good omen for many ethnic Chinese in Malaysia. Hundreds of couples rushed to tie the knot Tuesday, June 6, 2006, or 6/6/06. In the Hokkien dialect, spoken by many of Malaysia’s Chinese minority, the number six is pronounced to sound like the word “luck.” That meant a wedding on Tuesday was expected to bring triple luck. In Malaysia, a mass wedding registration ceremony was held for 234 Chinese couples, ranging from 19 to 56 years old, at the Thean Hou Temple in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, the national Bernama news agency said. Another 108 couples were married at the Klang Hokkien Association, south of the city, while 89 couples pledged their love and devotion to each other in the town hall in northern Penang state. Marketing executive Low Hong Ling, 28, was quoted by The Star as saying over the weekend that it was a special and practical date to be married. “It is very special because the particular sequence only happens once in a lifetime. Also, the date is easy to remember so we will never miss our anniversary,” she said.
