04, 09, 17, 33, 38, 42: Six Digits That Stopped the World (Briefly)
BREAKING: Six Digits Bring World to Brief, Beautiful Standstill by Mathilde “Mat” Huisman, roving correspondent, currently somewhere between Schiphol and a questionable airport lounge in Doha Geneva—At 20:17 GMT last night the Swiss lottery consortium transmitted the following sequence to 195 countries, three orbiting satellites, and one confused alpaca farmer in Patagonia: 04, 09, 17,…