Satanic Barcodes

From Snopes.com regarding the claim that “The infamous number ’666’ appears in all product barcodes”:

Contrary to popular myth, no bar code includes the number 666. This belief arose because the number six is represented by a pattern similar to that of the guard bars used to mark the beginning, middle, and end of every bar code. Since the guard bars always appear three times in a given bar code, people who mistakenly read them as sixes claimed that the pattern 6-6-6 was embedded in every bar code.

Philipp Lenssen on Friday, Mar 31 2006 reg. Conspiracy Theories.