867-5309
Before posting this link to a BBC story about an auspicious and expensive phone number in China, I though about using “867-5309″ as the title, that being the phone number used in some old cheesy song (by Tommy Tutone, as it happens). Before I used that for the title, I wanted to make sure I had the phone number right, so I searched google for it. The first hit was not at a lyrics site, as one might expect, but at “primes.utm.edu.” Can you believe it! 8,675,309 happens to be a prime number, and that’s the first hit! Is the Internet a dork’s paradise, or what?